Subject: Georgetown Dean Treanor invites YLS alumni to a Illustrated Presentation
From: "Alumni Affairs" <[email-masked]>
To: "Suppressed List" <[email-masked]>
Date: 17 Sep 2010 11:25:40 -0400

Georgetown University Law Center

Executive Vice President and Dean William M. Treanor (YLS '85)
invites you to attend an illustrated presentation celebrating the publication of

Refugee Roulette: Disparities in Asylum
Adjudication and Proposals for Reform

Published by
NYU Press 2009

Authored by
Jaya Ramji-Nogales (YLS '99), Andrew I. Schoenholtz,
and Philip G. Schrag (YLS '67)

Presentations and Comments by
Professor Andrew I. Schoenholtz, Georgetown University Law Center
Professor Philip G. Schrag (YLS '67), Georgetown University Law Center
Professor Jaya Ramji-Nogales (YLS '99), Temple University, Beasley School of Law
Judge Robert A. Katzmann (YLS '80), U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, Commentator
[Judge Guido Calabresi (YLS '58), canceled]

Immigration law practitioners have long suspected that the likelihood of winning asylum depends in large measure on which asylum officer or immigration judge is assigned to adjudicate a case.  The authors have drawn on immense databases to test the truth of these suspicions. They will present their findings:

•     Examining the degrees of disparity among asylum officers;

•     Revealing the extent to which immigration judges differ in similar asylum cases, and the correlations between those differences and the genders and prior work experiences of       the judges

•     Demonstrating the effects of Attorney General Ashcroft’s “streamlining reforms” on the adjudication of asylum appeals at the Board of Immigration Appeals; and

•     Showing the differences among and within U.S. Courts of Appeals when they review asylum decisions of the Board.

Thursday, September 30, 2010
4:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.

Georgetown University Law Center
Gewirz Student Center, 12th Floor
120 F Street, Northwest
Washington, District of Columbia

Reception to follow
Please RSVP by September 22nd to [email-masked]

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