Daniel Kanstroom

Professor of Law, Boston College

Daniel Kanstroom is Professor of Law, Thomas F. Carney Distinguished Scholar, Director of the International Human Rights Program, and an Associate Director of the Boston College Center for Human Rights and International Justice. Professor Kanstroom was the founder of the Boston College Immigration and Asylum clinic in which students represent indigent noncitizens and asylum-seekers. He and his students have also written amicus briefs for the U.S. Supreme Court. Professor Kanstroom’s newest initiative, the Post-Deportation Human Rights Project, seeks to conceptualize and develop a new field of law while representing US deportees abroad and undertaking empirical study of the effects of deportation on families and communities.

Professor Kanstroom has published widely in the fields of U.S. immigration law, criminal law, and European citizenship and asylum law. His most recent books are: Constructing “Illegality”: Immigrant Experiences, Critiques, and Resistance, (editor, with Cecilia Menjívar) (Cambridge University Press 2013); Aftermath: Deportation Law and the New American Diaspora, (Oxford University Press 2012); and Deportation Nation: Outsiders in American History (Harvard University Press 2007). His articles and short pieces have appeared in such venues as the Harvard Law Review, the Yale Journal of International Law, the UCLA Law Review, the Georgetown Immigration Law Journal, The New York Times, the Journal of Social History, and the French Gazette du Palais. Professor Kanstroom has served on the American Bar Association's Immigration Commission and the Advisory Board of the PAIR Project.

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