American maritime law probably seems like a world unto itself to most law students. This text gives you a first-class ticket to that world. It covers many recent developments in the United States Supreme Court on seaman status and remedies. Yet it is much more than an update. It gives the scope and highlights of the field that you need to excel in understanding it, from maritime jurisdiction to sovereign immunity. This will help you answer exam questions more quickly and accurately.

Product Description: Forced Migration: Law and Policy includes materials on asylum, refugees, the Convention Against Torture, temporary protection schemes, and a variety of related topics. The principal focus is U.S. law and policy, but the authors have leavened the mix with comparative materials from a variety of countries...read more

Product Description: Although America is unquestionably a nation of immigrants, its immigration policies have inspired more questions than consensus on who should be admitted and what the path to citizenship should be. In Americans in Waiting, Hiroshi Motomura looks to a forgotten part of our past to show how, for over 150 years, immigration was assumed to be a transition to citizenship, with immigrants essentially being treated as future citizens--Americans in waiting...read more

Product Description: Immigration and Naturalization Law of the United States serves as a one-stop source for the most important federal legislation affecting immigration and naturalization, supplementing any casebook on the subject. With its consistent timeliness and reasonable pricing, this publication is a staple in classrooms nationwide...read more

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Product Description: Immigration and Citizenship: Process and Policy, 5th Edition integrates a number of important developments since the fourth edition was published in 1998. These developments include: · Many changes to the immigration statutes as part of the USA Patriot Act, especially concerning the treatment of terrorism; · anti-terrorism enforcement, including measures that raise tough issues of the use of ethnicity and nationality, the use of undisclosed evidence to remove non-citizens, and the detention of suspected terrorists; · splitting up the Immigration and Naturalization Service into various parts of the new Department of Homeland Security and other federal agencies...read more

Product Description: Allows access to the most important federal legislation affecting immigration and naturalization. Reflects important amendments to the Immigration and Nationality Act, including changes in the Legal Immigration Family Equity (LIFE) Act and LIFE Act Amendments, as well as the Child Citizenship Act of 2000, the disability oath waiver legislation, and the new H-1B and V and K visa provisions, among other new enactments...read more

Product Description: One cannot start a discussion of those who seek to belong without first knowing what belonging is. So, in this casebook, the authors start with citizenship. Their theme is membership, and that theme is reflected throughout. Significant changes include deleting the chapter on the concept of "entry," folding the relief from deportation chapter into a general chapter on grounds of deportability, adding the judicial review materials to a new chapter on removal procedures, and creating a new chapter on undocumented immigration...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Some of the most pressing questions in immigration law and policy today concern the problem of immigration controls. How are immigration laws administered, and how are they enforced against those who enter and remain in a receiving country without legal permission? Comparing the United States and Germany, two of the four extended essays in this volume concern enforcement; the other two address techniques for managing high-volume asylum systems in both countries...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Allows access to the most important federal legislation affecting immigration and naturalization. Reflects important amendments to the Immigration and Nationality Act, including changes in the Legal Immigration Family Equity (LIFE) Act and LIFE Act Amendments, as well as the Child Citizenship Act of 2000, the disability oath waiver legislation, and the new H-1B and V and K visa provisions, among other new enactments...read more