Program Chairs / Program Chairs

Judicial Politics / Judicial Politics

William R. Shaffer, Purdue University-Main Campus

Electoral cycles, asylum outcomes, and judicial (non)independence in the U.S. immigration courts - Alice Yiqian Wang, Stanford University

Dramatized Vignettes for Improving Measurement among Immigration Court Watchers - Jeffrey K. Staton, Emory University; Devon Thurman, Emory University

Immigration and the Courts: Does the jurist’s race matter for perceptions of legitimacy? - Scott Hofer, St. Francis College (NYC); Matthew Michael Ward, University of Louisiana at Lafayette; Jason P. Casellas, University of Houston; Susan Achury, Miami University

Sum of its Parts: The Immigration Court and Asylum Granting Rates - Luzmarina Garcia, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Trump and the Judiciary: Presidential Influence on Criminal Immigration Cases - Ethan Drake Boldt, North Dakota State University; Jason S. Byers, University of Georgia

Daniel E. Chand, Kent State University at Kent