Immigration Law (Simon)
Faculty
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| Nicole Simon Lecturer in Law nsimon@pennlaw.upenn.edu |
Additional Information
Skills Training
Oral Presentations
Other Professional Skills:
Grading
10% Participation,
90% Exam
Exam
Essay,
Take Home,
Open-Book
No
Class meets in person.
Course Continuity
Students are encouraged to stay home if you are ill or experience flu-like symptoms. If you miss a class for any reason, it is still your responsibility to make up the work missed.
I offer the following to students who miss class due to illness:
- Class sessions are regularly recorded. I will make these recordings routinely available on the course site to everyone in the class.
- If you are absent, due to illness or some other unavoidable circumstance, email me and I can ask for volunteers among your classmates to share their notes with you.
- I will make PowerPoint slides or other class materials routinely available on the course site to everyone in the class.
- When you are better, please make an appointment to meet with me and I will review/answer questions about what you missed.
- Please make an appointment to meet with me and I will review/answer questions about what you missed.
Meeting Times/Location
W 10:30AM - 1:15PM
Silverman Hall 280
Category
Upper-Level
Credits
3.0
Immigration Law is a very complex yet very personal and human area of the law. This course will provide an overview of the various immigration laws that govern the movement of persons from other countries into the US and give you, the student, an understanding of not just the complexity of the laws but also an inner glimpse into the reality of what it means to practice immigration law in the year 2022. We will cover the general principles of constitutional and administrative law primarily focused on the application to immigration law and how the governing statutes and regulations are applied to real-life situations facing individuals seeking to immigrate to the U.S. The focus of this course is therefore more on the practical aspects of immigration law although, inevitably, policy will play a role throughout the course.
As my background is as a practitioner with extensive experience in business and family immigration, we will focus more heavily on those areas but will also touch upon all of the various areas of immigration law, including deportability grounds, relief from removal, humanitarian relief, and asylum and withholding of removal claims.
My goal is to have an interactive class insofar as this is a very stimulating topic that, especially in the last several years, has taken center stage in the news and political thought. There will be a final take home exam at the end of the course but class participation will also be considered in the final grading.
Attendance is required. If you are ill or have an emergency that requires you to miss class, please contact me and I can provide you the recording and any other information provided at that class.
Business and Corporate Law Learning outcomes: Demonstrate a core understanding of business and corporate law; Perform legal analysis in the context of business and corporate law; Communicate effectively on topics related to business and corporate law; Demonstrate an understanding of the interconnection between the world of business and finance and that of business and corporate law, and how they affect other areas of law and society.
International and Comparative Law Learning outcomes: Demonstrate a core understanding of international and comparative law, both substantively and procedurally; Perform legal analysis in the context of international and comparative law; Communicate effectively on topics related to international and comparative law; Demonstrate an understanding of the role of international and comparative law, and their interconnection with domestic law.
Constitutional Law Learning outcomes: Demonstrate a core understanding of constitutional law; Perform legal analysis in the context of constitutional law; Communicate effectively on topics related to constitutional law; Demonstrate an understanding of constitutional law affects other areas of law.
Criminal Law and Procedure Learning outcomes: Demonstrate a core understanding of criminal law and procedure; Perform legal analysis in the context of criminal law and procedure; Communicate effectively on topics related to criminal law and procedure; Demonstrate an understanding of the role criminal law and procedure play in society and their impact on other areas of law and society.
Family Law Learning outcomes: Demonstrate a core understanding of family law; Perform legal analysis in the context of family law; Communicate effectively on topics related to family law; Demonstrate an understanding of how family law affects other areas of law.
Employment Law and Employee Benefits Learning outcomes: Demonstrate a core understanding of employment law and employee benefits; Perform legal analysis in the context of employment law and employee benefits; Communicate effectively on topics related to employment law and employee benefits; Demonstrate an understanding of how employment law and employee benefits affect other areas of law.
Administrative and Regulatory Law Learning outcomes: Demonstrate a core understanding of administrative and regulatory law and the administrative process, including the role of statutory authorization and work of administrative agencies; Perform legal analysis in the context of administrative and regulatory law; Communicate effectively on topics related to administrative and regulatory law; Demonstrate an understanding of the role administrative and regulatory law play in our legal system and in society as a whole.
Textbooks
"Immigration and Citizenship – Process and Policy (9th ed. 2021" by Aleinikoff, Martin, Motomura, Fullerton, Stumpf, & Gulasekaram, |