[Hamp-law] Fwd: Fwd: SAVE THE DATE: Leila Kawar talk-Legal activism and deportation resistance: Comparative and historical perspectives 11/16/16 4PM 423 Tobin Hall

[Flavio Risech]

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Subject: 	SAVE THE DATE: Leila Kawar talk-Legal activism and deportation 
resistance: Comparative and historical perspectives 11/16/16 4PM 423 
Tobin Hall
Date: 	Wed, 2 Nov 2016 21:13:52 -0400
From: 	The Resistance Studies Initiative <resist at umass.edu>
To: 	The Resistance Studies Initiative <resist at umass.edu>



*Resistance Studies Initiative Fall 2016 Speaker Series:*

*/Distinguished researchers and activists share critical reflections on 
resistance issues./*

*Leila Kawar***


  Legal activism and deportation resistance:
  Comparative and historical perspectives

Wednesday, November 16, 2016 4:00pm to 6:00pm

423 Tobin Hall  University of Massachusetts Amherst

*Leila Kawar *Assistant Professor of Political Science and Legal 
Studies, University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her research examines the 
politics of legal expertise, at both the national and international 
levels, with a focus on questions relating to migration, citizenship, 
and labor. Her book, /Contesting Immigration Policy in Court: Legal 
Activism and Its Radiating Effects in the United States and 
France/(Cambridge U Press 2015) received the Law and Society 
Association's Herbert Jacob Book Award for best book in law and society 
in 2016 and also the APSA Migration and Citizenship Section award of 
Best Book in 2016. Kawar holds a PhD in Law and Society from New York 
University.

Since the 1970s, networks of progressive attorneys in both the United 
States and France have attempted to use litigation to assert rights for 
noncitizens. Yet judicial engagement – while numerically voluminous – 
remains doctrinally curtailed. Professor Leila Kawar’s research offers 
new insights into the role of law in immigration policy making by 
focusing on the complex webs linking legal doctrine, lawyer advocacy, 
and movements for social change. Challenging the conventional wisdom 
that "cause litigation" has little long-term impact on policy making 
unless it produces broad rights-protective principles, her work shows 
that legal contestation can have important radiating effects on policy 
by reshaping how political actors approach immigration issues.

Refreshments will be served
Open to all


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