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Valuing Immigrant Lives
Ramji-Nogales, Jaya
Ramji-Nogales, Jaya
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2015
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http://dx.doi.org/10.34944/dspace/6178
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In Valuing Foreign Lives, Arden Rowell and Lesley Wexler bring
theoretical rigor to bear on a vitally important yet atheorized area of legal policy: the valuation of foreign lives in U.S. policymaking.1 At the
heart of the article is a call for transparency, aiming to enable greater
understanding of the foreign impacts of American policies.2 This is a radical move that holds the potential to transform the process of making
policy in the United States and to alter negotiations and relations with
other nations.
The article offers substantial food for thought as well as a robust research agenda going forward. In furtherance of that agenda, this brief
comment focuses on U.S. immigration law and policy, highlighting the
challenging questions that this highly politicized field presents for their
theory. In particular, the deep political controversies that surround immigration foreground the difficulty of focusing on process rather than
prescribing a normative solution. Though I am in the authors’ camp in
favoring a process-based approach,3 this avenue presents thorny problems that remain to be worked through as the authors pursue their larger
research agenda. I applaud the authors for their innovative and provocative theory, and offer up these challenges from the field of immigration
law in the spirit of a fellow traveler aiming to help them ensure that their
theory is as effective as possible.
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Jaya Ramji-Nogales, Valuing Immigrant Lives, 2015 U. Ill. L. Rev. Slip Opinions 18-23 (2015).
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University of Illinois College of Law
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University of Illinois Law Review, 2015, No. 1
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