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Law and Society Association Conference Highlights

by Life of the Law

• June 19, 2018

Where does one find a discussion of research on abduction for forced marriage amidst West and Central African conflicts? Where does one find research on how ‘yes means yes’ policies on university campuses have affected…

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In-Studio: Brutally Ruthless

by Life of the Law

• October 31, 2017

“As incompetent and bumbling as the Trump Administration has been in so many areas, they have been brutally ruthless on immigration.” — Jose Chito Vela, Immigration Attorney and Candidate for Texas State Legislature It’s been…

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Life Un-DACAmented

by Life of the Law

• October 17, 2017

Nearly two years ago on January 26, 2016, Life of the Law presented Un-DACA-mented, a report on the Obama Administration’s DACA Program, or Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. The program, begun in 2012, offered undocumented…

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UnDACAmented

by Jonathan Hirsch

• January 26, 2016

“And they just told me to sign here and here. Well I signed. And I guess I signed for my deportation.” – Luis Luis crossed the border into the US when he was 8 years…

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Children Immigrants and the United States

by Life of the Law

• July 17, 2014

What do you do when an estimated 90,000 unaccompanied immigrant children cross the US southern border in search of a new home? By September 30, that’s the number of children expected to enter the US…

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Trouble with Profiling

by Jude Joffe-Block

• March 25, 2014

Is ‘looking Mexican’ a legal reason for the Border Patrol to stop a car? Federal law says agents have to have ‘reasonable suspicion’ that something illegal is happening. But what that means depends where you are, and whom you ask.

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Taking One For The Team

by Katherine Thompson

• June 18, 2013

Maybe tomorrow, or maybe next week, but at any rate at some point very soon, the U.S. Supreme Court will issue their ruling on “the gay cases” (Hollingsworth vs. Perry and Windsor vs. US). Also…

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Living Under DOMA: Fleeing to Niagara Falls

by Katherine Thompson

• March 27, 2013

I remember the first customs card I ever filled out. I was thirteen, and my family had just spent three months in Australia, where my dad had been working. (Little did I know at the…

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An Open Letter to the President

by Katherine Thompson

• February 18, 2013

Under current law–the Defense of Marriage Act, or DOMA–the federal government does not recognize same-sex marriage regardless of whether a couple is married under state law. That a same-sex couple married in Iowa, for example,…