Citizens Across Borders: The Role of Courts in Migration and Asylum

Session Submission Type: Virtual Created Panel

Session Description

States have sovereign rights to determine national citizenship and who remains within their borders. Yet, this traditional understanding has undergone fundamental shifts with increased global interdependence and integration of states and with greater recognition of human rights like the right to life, right of non-discrimination, and freedom of movement. This panel addresses the role of courts in the protection of these rights and judicial establishment of legal rules and procedures to promote or hinder the realization of these rights. It further evaluates the political ramifications of these judicial decisions and procedures, offering novel insights as to how courts respond to and reconceptualize evolving international and domestic realities.

Sub Unit

• Division 26: Law and Courts

Individual Presentations

• Crafting the Language of Borders:ECJ Opinions on the Freedom to Move and Reside - Maureen Stobb, Georgia Southern University; Jamie Elizabeth Scalera, Georgia Southern University

• The Limits of EU Standardization: Legal Approaches to Gender-Based Asylum Claims - Patricia Charlotte Rodda, Carroll University

• The Role of Domestic Courts in Climate-Related Asylum Appeals - Ivanka Bergova, Georgia State University

• Tipping the Scales: The Effect of Burden of Proof in Immigration Bond Decisions - Jeffrey Staton, Emory University; Anthony James DeMattee, Emory University; Devon Thurman, Emory University; Grace Shrestha

Chair

• Todd A. Curry University of Texas at El Paso

Discussants

• Todd A. Curry University of Texas at El Paso

• Rebecca Hamlin University of Massachusetts, Amherst