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Clinical Professor of Law, Associate Director, Legal Clinic

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Present	Clinical Professor of Law, Vanderbilt University Law School
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The Supreme Court and Refugees at the Southern Border: 5 ...

Conversation (2019)

Karla McKanders

I sat in a small room in Tijuana, Mexico with a 13-year-old indigenous Mayan Guatemalan girl. She left Guatemala after ...

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Immigration to Blue Cities in Red States: The Battleground Between ...

University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law (2019)

Karla M. McKanders

This commentary interrogates the concept of immigration federalism, examining the political and ideological contours of state and local sanctuary laws ...

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Immigration and Blackness

Human Rights (2019)

Karla McKanders

There is a long history of the intersection of immigration, race, and civil rights in America. Immigration laws have operated ...

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America's Disposable Youth: Undocumented Delinquent Juveniles

Howard Law Journal (2015)

Karla M. McKanders

Through discriminatory rhetoric state and local officials construct delinquent juvenile immigrant youth as the embodiment of a threat to public ...

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Anatomy of an Uprising: Women, Democracy, and the Moroccan Feminist ...

Boston University International Law Journal (2014)

Karla M. McKanders

During the Arab Spring, Moroccan men and women first took to the streets on February 20, 2011 to demand governmental ...

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Federal Preemption and Immigrants' Rights

Wake Forest Journal of Law & Policy (2013)

Karla M. McKanders

Recently, immigration scholars have focused on the relationship between federal, state, and local governments in regulating immigration to the exclusion ...

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Global Issues in Immigration Law

McGeorge School of Law Teaching Materials (2013)

Raquel Aldana, Won Kidane, Beth Lyon and Karla M McKanders

This title is designed to introduce comparative and international perspectives to the study of immigration law and policy. Topics include ...

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Immigration Enforcement and the Fugitive Slave Acts: Exploring Their Similarities

Catholic University Law Review (2012)

Karla M. McKanders

Two seemingly different federal enforcement systems that affect the movement of unskilled workers — the 1793 and 1850 Fugitive Slave ...

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Raising the Bar: Law Schools and Legal Institutions Leading to ...

Arizona State Law Journal (2012)

Karla M. McKanders, Raquel Aldana and Beth Lyon

This paper explores the adoption of best practices for the admission and graduation of undocumented students as lawyers and promoting ...

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Law Schools as Advocates for Social Change: Movement to Fully ...

Arizona State Law Journal (2012)

Beth Lyon, Karla McKanders and Raquel Aldana

This paper explores the adoption of best practices for the admission and graduation of undocumented students as lawyers and promoting ...

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Black and Brown Coalition Building during the Post-Racial Obama Era

Saint Louis University Public Law Review (2010)

Karla M. McKanders

This essay explores how the past Civil Rights Movement and discrimination against persons of color, mainly Latinos and African Americans, ...

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Clinical Legal Education at a Generational Crossroads: Shades of Gray

Clinical Law Review (2010)

Karla M. McKanders

Clinical legal education is at a crossroads. With studies like the Macrate Report, Carnegie Foundation Report “Educating Lawyers,” and Best ...

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Sustaining Tiered Personhood: Jim Crow and Anti-Immigrant Laws

Harvard Journal on Racial & Ethnic Justice (2010)

Karla M. McKanders

Latino immigrants are moving to areas of the country that have not seen a major influx of immigrants. As a ...

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The Constitutionality of State and Local Laws Targeting Immigrants

University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review (2009)

Karla M. McKanders

This paper addresses current immigration issues across the country, specifically in Arkansas, and how lawyers can seek to achieve social ...

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Welcome to Hazleton ("Illegal" Immigrants Beware): Local Employment Immigration Ordinances ...

Loyola University Chicago Law Journal (2007)

Karla M McKanders

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