3 Experts Available for Timely Analysis on SCOTUS Birthright Citizenship Hearing
The U.S. Supreme Court is hearing arguments this week regarding Trump’s executive order to undo U.S. birthright citizenship. For reporters covering this case and its potential implications, the following experts are available for commentary and analysis:
Chen teaches courses in Constitutional Law, Legislation and Administrative Regulation, Citizenship, and Immigration. She is author of Pursuing Citizenship in the Enforcement Era (Stanford University Press 2020), on which she gave a TEDx Talk in 2020.
Elkins’ research focuses on issues of democracy; constitutional reform; research methods; and national identity; with an emphasis on cases in Latin America. He wrote a 2018 brief on this issue: The Case for Maintaining U.S. Birthright Citizenship.
Law is a political scientist specializing in US constitutional law and immigration law and policy history. She spent sixteen years writing a book on US historical migration and citizenship, to be published next year with Oxford University Press. This un-gated article, a portion of her book, explains the politics that animated the passage of the Fourteenth Amendment, including slavery and African American citizenship, the legal citizenship of Native Americans, and of European and Chinese immigrants.