ABA ROLI's 2018 Issues Conference Referenced in New ABA Journal Article on Migration

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As Elizabeth Ferris, a research professor for Georgetown University’s Institute for the Study of International Migration, wrote in the ABA ROLI 2018 Issues Paper: "unjust laws, weak governance structures, and dysfunctional accountability mechanisms" are often drivers of migration.


Ferris's work on ABA ROLI's 2018 Issues Paper is referenced in a new ABA Journal article about the causes of migration. The article explores the impact the rule of law has on migrants' lives, and the need for legal experts to engage on not only the issues that cause people to flee their home country, but also the challenges they encounter as they interact with and navigate complicated immigration systems.


 "Kuong Ly’s parents fled the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia after being forced into labor camps in the 1970s. Photo courtesy of Kuong Ly." (Caption and photo from the article).

In the article, one of the interviewees, Kuong Ly, the son of refugees from Cambodia who is now a public interest lawyer, stated: "At the core of who I am is an unwavering belief that the law has the capacity to not only be fair, but it has the capacity to protect, rather than hurt, those most vulnerable when the law is wielded correctly..." Read the full article here.

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