Designing Sanctuary

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UNC Law Professor Rick Su will present his article, Designing Sanctuary (forthcoming in the Michigan Law Review). The article argues that municipal sanctuary policies are far from uniform, and their variation reflects the different local interests and institutional actors behind their adoption and implementation. More specifically, municipal sanctuary policies can be broadly categorized into three models: administrative sanctuary, political sanctuary, and silent sanctuary. This typology highlights the structural and institutional forces that have contributed to the diversity of sanctuary policies in the United States. It also calls into question many of the assumptions in the sanctuary literature about the assessment of sanctuary policies, the goals of anti-sanctuary efforts, and the effect of all of this on local policymaking.

Panelists:

• Rick Su, Professor of Law, University of North Carolina School of Law
• Adam B. Cox, Robert A. Kindler Professor of Law, NYU Law
• Rose Cuison-Villazor, Professor of Law, Rutgers Law School; Visiting Fellow-in-Residence, Birnbaum Women’s Leadership Center, NYU Law
• Pratheepan Gulasekaram, Professor of Law, Colorado Law