This book can be used as a supplement to introductory courses in Constitutional Law, or as a text for a course in Constitutional Theory. Chapter 1 begins with a look at some of the currently influential theories of the constitution. Is there an ideology that governs this area of the law? Is it a good one? Chapter 2 looks to the document itself, and examines various proposals for interpreting it. Chapter 3 takes up the closely allied problem of judicial review. How we should interpret the constitution is a different question than who should interpret it. In the United States we usually assign that job to the courts. Are we right to do so? Thereafter, the book is organized to correspond with the major topics covered in casebooks on Constitutional Law. The authors have, however, omitted treatment of the First Amendment. It is not addressed in most first-year classes, and is often the subject of a separate upper-level course. For that reason, and because an adequate treatment would require a vast amount of material, it is covered in a separate volume. Although the chapters are organized according to doctrinal categories, the reading they contain are not an elaboration (or condensation) of doctrine such as one would find in a hornbook. They seek to go deeper than a restatement of the law, to ask what and whose purposes are served by existing rules, and to inquire whether some other organization is preferable. Not all the readings address these questions from the same point of view. The selections take opposing positions on each subject, in order to make students aware of the existing conflict and to facilitate class discussion of the materials.

Modern Constitutional Theory : A Reader (American Casebook) (4th ed.)

Garvey, John H.

Aleinikoff, T. Alexander

West Group

In a set of cases decided at the end of the nineteenth century, the Supreme Court declared that Congress had "plenary power" to regulate immigration, Indian tribes, and newly acquired territories. Not coincidentally, the groups subject to Congress' plenary power were primarily nonwhite and generally perceived as "uncivilized." The Court left Congress free to craft policies of assimilation, exclusion, paternalism, and domination.
 Despite dramatic shifts in constitutional law in the twentieth century, the plenary power case decisions remain largely the controlling law. The Warren Court, widely recognized for its dedication to individual rights, focused on ensuring "full and equal citizenship"--an agenda that utterly neglected immigrants, tribes, and residents of the territories. The Rehnquist Court has appropriated the Warren Court's rhetoric of citizenship, but has used it to strike down policies that support diversity and the sovereignty of Indian tribes.
Attuned to the demands of a new century, the author argues for abandonment of the plenary power cases, and for more flexible conceptions of sovereignty and citizenship. The federal government ought to negotiate compacts with Indian tribes and the territories that affirm more durable forms of self-government. Citizenship should be "decentered," understood as a commitment to an intergenerational national project, not a basis for denying rights to immigrants.

Semblances of Sovereignty: The Constitution, the State, and American Citizenship

History

Americas

Harvard University Press

No immigration issue today is more controversial than the line dividing the rights and responsibilities between citizens and resident aliens. The author cuts through the partisan rhetoric that has inflamed public debate over this issue to provide a lucid and carefully nuanced analysis of the legal norms that have guided U.S. citizenship policy. To clarify the fundamental issues at stake in this matter, he sets out three models for understanding the alternative directives available for policy makers. He advances his strongest case for a model that promotes the integration of resident aliens as prospective full citizens.

Between Principles and Politics: The Direction of U.S. Citizenship Policy (International Migration Policy Program)

Business & Money

Aleinikoff, Thomas Alexander

Economics

Carnegie Endowment for Intl Peace

The international refugee regime is fundamentally broken. Designed in the wake of World War II to provide protection and assistance, the system is unable to address the record numbers of persons displaced by conflict and violence today. States have put up fences and adopted policies to deny, deter, and detain asylum seekers. People recognized as refugees are routinely denied rights guaranteed by international law. The results are dismal for the millions of refugees around the world who are left with slender prospects to rebuild their lives or contribute to host communities. T. Alexander Aleinikoff and Leah Zamore lay bare the underlying global crisis of responsibility. The Arc of Protection adopts a revisionist and critical perspective that examines the original premises of the international refugee regime. Aleinikoff and Zamore identify compromises at the founding of the system that attempted to balance humanitarian ideals and sovereign control of their borders by states. This book offers a way out of the current international morass through refocusing on responsibility-sharing, seeing the humanitarian-development divide in a new light, and putting refugee rights front and center.

The Arc of Protection: Reforming the International Refugee Regime

Zamore, Leah

Administrative Law

Stanford Briefs

Aleinikoff, Martin, Motomura, Fullerton, and Stumpf’s Immigration and Nationality Laws of the United States: Selected Statutes, Regulations and Forms serves as a one-stop source for federal immigration legislation and other primary source materials. A staple in classrooms nationwide, this publication: 
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<li>Includes the most important federal, state, and local legislation affecting immigration and citizenship</li>
<li>Supplements any teaching materials on its subject</li>
<li>Includes selected statutes, regulations and forms</li>
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Immigration and Nationality Laws of the United States: Selected Statutes, Regulations, Forms, 2018

MOTOMURA, Hiroshi

Fullerton, Maryellen

Martin, David A.

Stumpf, Juliet P.

West Academic Publishing

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