Podcasts & Interviews
Connecticut Public Radio’s Where We Live. Cristina speaks with Denise Merrill about the challenges and opportunities facing the Biden administration (Feb. 8, 2021).
NPR’s Morning Edition. Cristina speaks with Sarah McCammon about President Biden’s executive orders and how the Trump administration transformed the immigration system, with insights from the book (Jan. 25, 2021).
Talks on Law, The Shadow Immigration System and the Power of the Presidency. Adam & Cristina have a wide-ranging, two part conversation with Joel Cohen about the book and the prospects for change in the immigration system (fall 2020).
The Lawfare Podcast. Cristina & Adam explore the ideas in the book and their implications for contemporary immigration and national security policy with Jack Goldsmith (Dec. 7, 2020).
The Immigrantly Podcast, Let’s Talk Immigration Policy: The President and the Shadow System. Cristina and Adam speak about the book and discuss the social justice implications of our immigration policies with Saadia Khan (November 5, 2020).
Tempest Tossed Podcast, The President and the Power to Regulate Immigration. Adam & Cristina in dialogue with Alex Aleinikoff, Director of the Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility at The New School (Oct. 26, 2020).
Good Law/Bad Law podcast, Immigration and the New President. Cristina speaks with Aaron Freiwald about the book and what it can teach about the challenges facing the new administration (Oct. 30, 2020).
New Books Network podcast. Cristina speaks with Jaime Sanchez, Jr., of Princeton about the book and American immigration history (Oct. 14, 2020).
Digging a Hole: The Legal Theory Podcast. Adam & Cristina workshop the book with legal scholars David Schleicher and Sam Moyn (Oct. 1, 2020).
The Tom Sumner Program, old-fashioned radio for a new generation. Interview with Cristina (August 19, 2020).
StandUp! with Pete Dominick. Podcast featuring Cristina (August 17, 2020).
Slate's Jurisprudence with Dahlia Lithwick. Adam and Cristina speak with Dahlia about how the president became our immigration policymaker in chief (August 3, 2020)
A Q&A on the Supreme Court's DACA decision. Cristina runs through the opinion for Yale Today (June 21, 2020).
Reviews & Symposia
A symposium on Notice & Comment, a blog for the Yale Journal on Regulation and the ABA Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice, forthcoming the week of March 22, 2021.
A Just Security series on The President and Immigration Law (October 2020) (with contributions from Lucas Guttentag, Tom Jawetz, Josiah Heyman, Margo Schlanger, Nicholas Espiritu, and Alan Bersin).
A Balkinization Symposium (December 2020) (with contributions from Daphna Renan, Aziz Huq, Peter Shane, Pratheepan Gulasekaram, Bijal Shah, Peter Markowitz, and Shalev Roisman).
“Presidents and Immigration Law: Past and Future,” a review by Ming Hsu Chen in The New Rambler Review (Jan. 14, 2021).
The Washington Book Review writes: “The President and Immigration Law is a timely myth-busting study of a subject that has divided the nation right in the middle. Adam B. Cox and Cristina M. Rodríguez once again prove they are the leading authorities on immigration law and history. It is a must-read to understand the current immigration controversy.”
Additional Praise
“No constitutional issue is more vital in a nation of immigrants like the United States than the treatment of newcomers, and few, if any, scholars are better positioned to help us think sensibly about that issue than Adam Cox and Cristina Rodríguez. In this smart and timely book, they argue persuasively that the first step is understanding how our vast bureaucracy of deportation has shifted day-to-day control over immigration policy from Congress to the President. They explore that development and its implications with sophistication and balance, offering an indispensable guide in carrying forward the great American experiment.” –David Alan Sklansky, Stanley Morrison Professor of Law, Stanford University
“A courageous, fascinating and sophisticated account and defense of presidentialism in immigration policymaking. Cox and Rodríguez debunk simplistic claims for congressional control of immigration policy while providing an historical blueprint for more rational, structured, and humane executive policies.” –Mark Graber, University System of Maryland Regents Professor, University of Maryland
“This candid and nuanced study of the interplay between presidential and congressional power in immigration policy by two leading scholars provides an essential basis for understanding our current dilemma and moving toward reform.” –Gerald L. Neuman, J. Sinclair Armstrong Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Human Rights Program, Harvard