Professor Jennifer Koh Presents "A New Era for Immigrants' Rights" -- Law and Society Association

Professor Jennifer Koh presented "A New Era for Immigrants' Rights" on a panel in connection with the Law and Society Association Annual Meeting. The meeting, titled "Sanctuary," was held in San Francisco on May 28-31. 

From the Law and Society Association:

A sanctuary is a place of refuge or safety, especially for those who feel unwelcome outside it. In early modern Europe, the sanctuary was a sacred space, usually inside a church, where a fugitive would be immune from the law that was out to get them.

Today, the field of law and society offers a sanctuary for scholars searching beyond any single discipline to answer urgent questions about the legal, political, and social world. How is law and society a scholarly sanctuary, and what are the results of this? More generally, what does it mean to offer sanctuary in this political climate?

LSA’s return to San Francisco — a city that has long attracted outsiders and outcasts seeking sanctuary — provides an opportunity to reflect on these themes.

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