Jennifer Koh’s Scholarship Reviewed on JOTWELL (Journal of Things We Like (Lots))

Professor Jennifer Koh’s two recent law review articles have been reviewed on JOTWELL (Journal of Things We Like (Lots)), a blog that “creat[es] a space where legal academics can go to identify, celebrate, and discuss the best new scholarship relevant to the law,” according to its mission statement. In an essay entitled Extreme Expedition, Henry M. Jackson Professor of Law at the University of Washington School of Law Mary Fan states: “Jennifer Lee Koh’s body of recent work is powerful and timely because it guides us through the realities of present immigration process, which defies expectations.”

Professor Fan describes the articles as a “fascinating and macabre education on removal proceedings in the ‘shadows of immigration court,’ as she terms it, … powerfully illuminat[ing] how the vast majority of people removed from the United States never make it into an immigration court.” The essay concludes that “[Koh’s] overview of the abbreviated approaches that sidestep an already notoriously underprotective process is important reading to understand the fast muddy slide into our present mire.”

The two articles reviewed are When Shadow Removals Collide: Searching for Solutions to the Legal Black Holes Created by Expedited Removal and Reinstatement, __ Wash. U. L. Rev. __ (forthcoming 2018), available at SSRN; and Removal in the Shadows of Immigration Court, 90 S. Cal. L. Rev. 181 (2017).