Daniel Kanstroom is Professor of Law, Faculty Director of the Rappaport Center for Law & Public Policy, and Dean's Distinguished Scholar.听 He teaches a 1L class, Introduction听to Human Rights, Humanitarian and Refugee Law, as well as Immigration Law, International Human Rights Law, Constitutional Law, and Administrative Law.听 He was awarded the Faculty Prize for Innovation in Pedagogy.听听
Kanstroom founded the Boston College Immigration and Asylum Clinic and co-founded 情色空间 Law School's Immigration Spring Break ServiceTrips.听 He served for more than a decade as Co-Director of the Boston College Center for Human Rights and International Justice.听 He created the Post-Deportation Human Rights Project to conceptualize and develop a new field of law, while representing U.S. deportees abroad and undertaking empirical studies of the effects of deportation on families and communities.
Together with his students, Kanstroom has won many high-profile immigration and asylum cases and provided counsel for hundreds of clients over听many听years. He has written amicus briefs for the U.S. Supreme Court, organized innumerable public presentations in schools, churches, community centers, courts and prisons, and advised community groups.Published widely in the fields of U.S. immigration law, criminal law, and European citizenship and asylum law, Kanstroom is the author of听听(Oxford University Press) and听(Harvard University Press). He is a co-editor of听 (NYU Press) and听 (Cambridge University Press).听He has published dozens of articles, book reviews, and essays in venues that include the听Harvard Law Review, Yale Journal of International Law, UCLA Law Review, NYU Journal of International Law and Politics, Georgetown Immigration Law Journal, The New York Times, Journal of Social History, and the French听Gazette du Palais.
Kanstroom served on the American Bar Association's Immigration Commission and the PAIR Project's advisory board. He has also been a rapporteur for the American Branch of the Refugee Law Section of the International Law Association. He was a visiting professor at the University of Paris, University of Boulogne sur Mer, Northeastern School of Law, American University, King鈥檚 College in London, and Vermont Law School.
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