Contesting immigration policy in court : legal activism and its radiating effects in the United States and France /

"What difference does law make in immigration policymaking? Since the 1970s, networks of progressive attorneys in both the US and France have attempted to use litigation to assert rights for non-citizens. Yet judicial engagement - while numerically voluminous - remains doctrinally curtailed. Th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kawar, Leila, 1976- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Colección:Cambridge studies in law and society.
Temas:
Universidad Sergio Arboleda
Emigration and immigration law > United States.
Emigration and immigration law > France.
Noncitizens > United States.
Noncitizens > France.
Immigrants clandestins > États-Unis.
LAW > General.
LAW > Constitutional.
LAW > Public.
Noncitizens
Emigration and immigration law
Zuwanderungsrecht
Gerichtsverhandlung
Noncitizens.
France
United States
Frankreich
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. What difference does law make in immigration policy making?
  • 2. A new area of legal practice
  • 3. Formalization of immigrant rights
  • 4. Institutionalizing legal innovation
  • 5. Enacting adversarial legalism through class action lawsuits
  • 6. Performing legal activism before the Conseil d'Etat
  • 7. Conclusion: legal activism and its radiating effects.

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