| Lives in the Balance: Asylum Adjudication by the Department of Homeland Security Subjects: Asylum Right of -- United States; Political refugees -- Legal status laws etc. -- United States; Political refugees -- Government policy -- United States; United States. Department of Homeland Security; Administrative procedure -- United States; Emigra; Although Americans generally think that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security is focused only on preventing terrorism, one office within that agency has a humanitarian mission. Its Asylum Office adjudicates applications from people fleeing persecution in their homelands. Lives in the Balance is a careful empirical analysis of how Homeland Security decided these asylum cases over a recent fourteen-year period. Schrag Philip G. : Philip G. Schrag is the Delaney Family Professor of Public Interest Law and Director of the Center for Applied Legal Studies at Georgetown University Law Center.Schoenholtz Andrew I. : Andrew I. Schoenholtz is Visiting Professor, Director of the Human Rights Institute, and Director of the Center for Applied Legal Studies at Georgetown University Law Center. He is Deputy Director of the Institute for the Study of International Migration at Georgetown University School of Foreign Service.Ramji-Nogales Jaya : Jaya Ramji-Nogales is Associate Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Institute for International Law and Public Policy at Temple University's Beasley School of Law. |