Daniel Kanstroom is Professor of Law, the Director of the International Human Rights Program, and an Associate Director of the Boston College Center for Human Rights and International Justice. He teaches Immigration and Refugee Law, International Human Rights Law, Administrative Law, and the International Human Rights Semester in Practice. Professor Kanstroom was the founder and is also the current director of the Boston College Immigration and Asylum clinic in which students represent indigent noncitizens and asylum-seekers. Together with his students, he has won many high-profile immigration and asylum cases and has provided counsel for hundreds of clients over more than a decade. He and his students have also written amicus briefs for the U.S. Supreme Court, organized innumerable public presentations in schools, churches, community centers, courts and prisons, and have advised many community groups. He continues to organize the Immigration Spring Break Trips, where students work on immigration law cases during their Spring Break period. More information can be found at the Trip website. Professor Kanstroom’s newest initiative, the Post-Deportation Human Rights Project, represents individuals who have been deported from the United States, develops new legal theories in support of such cases, and undertakes multidisciplinary empirical study of the effects of deportation on families and communities. Professor Kanstroom has published widely in the fields of U.S. immigration law, criminal law, and European citizenship and asylum law. His work has appeared in such venues as the Harvard Law Review, the Yale Journal of International Law, the Georgetown Immigration Law Journal, and the French Gazette du Palais. His most recent book, Deportation Nation, was published by Harvard University Press in 2007. Professor Kanstroom has long served on the American Bar Association's Immigration Commission and the Advisory Board of the PAIR Project. He was rapporteur for the American Branch of the Refugee Law Section of the International Law Association. He has been a visiting Professor at the University of Paris, the University of Boulogne sur Mer, Northeastern School of Law, American University, King’s College, and Vermont Law School.
Books
Aftermath: Deportation Law and the New American Diaspora (2012)
Since the passage of harsh new deportation laws in 1996, the United States has deported...
Deportation Nation: Outsiders in American History (2007)
The danger of deportation hangs over the head of virtually every noncitizen in the United...
Massachusetts Criminal Defense: 1997 Cumulative Supplement (with Eric D. Blumenson and Stanley Z. Fisher) (1997)
Articles
"Alien" Litigation as Polity-Participation: The Positive Power of a "Voteless Class of Litigants", William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal (2012)
Panel Two: Should There Be Remote Public Access to Court Filings in Immigration Cases? (with The Honorable Robert Hinkle, David McCraw, and Eleanor Acer), Fordham Law Review (2012)
"Passed Beyond Our Aid:" U.S. Deportation, Integrity, and the Rule of Law, Fletcher Forum of World Affairs (2011)
The United States is still in the midst of a massive deportation experiment that is...
Padilla v. Kentucky and the Evolving Right to Deportation Counsel: Watershed or Work-in-Progress?, New England Law Review (2011)
Though widely heralded by immigration and human rights lawyers as a “landmark,” possible “watershed,” and...
The Right to Deportation Counsel in Padilla v. Kentucky: The Challenging Construction of the Fifth-and-a-Half Amendment, UCLA Law Review (2011)
The U.S. Supreme Court’s pathbreaking decision in Padilla v. Kentucky seems reasonably simple and exact:...
Contributions to Books
Immigration Law: Current Challenges and the Elusive Search for Legal Integrity, Immigration Practice Manual (2012)
This chapter offers an overview of deep questions about immigration and deportation law and practice....