Daniel Kanstroom

Daniel Kanstroom is a professor of law and director of the International Human Rights Program at Boston College Law School.

Fletcher Forum articles by Daniel Kanstroom:


“Passed Beyond Our Aid”: U.S. Deportation, Integrity, and the Rule of Law

April 26, 2011 by Daniel Kanstroom

Shortly before the enactment of the harshest package of U.S. deportation laws since the Alien & Sedition Acts of 1798, Barbara Jordan­­­­—then Chair of the U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform—said, “We are a nation of immigrants, dedicated to the rule of law….”[1] The following year, in the aftermath of the Oklahoma City bombing, laws were [...]

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