Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2016
Abstract
In this essay, Professor Michael Kagan responds to Professor Matthew J. Lindsay's article, Disaggregating “Immigration Law.” Professor Kagan posits a majority of Supreme Court justices appear to be at least occasionally uneasy with the plenary power doctrine that has shaped immigration law since the Chinese Exclusion Case, but they are not all sure how to live without it either. He argues so long as this remains the case, the Court’s immigration jurisprudence is likely to be incrementally favorable to immigrants on the whole, but tentative, inconsistent, and incoherent in some important ways. He concludes the importance of Professor Lindsay’s intervention is that it helps point a way to find clarity in this transitional period.
Publication Citation
68 Fla. L. Rev. Forum 59 (2016).
Recommended Citation
Kagan, Michael, "Shrinking the Post-Plenary Power Problem" (2016). Scholarly Works. 1081.
https://scholars.law.unlv.edu/facpub/1081