Juliet Stumpf

Biography

Juliet Stumpf holds the Edmund O. Belsheim Professor of Law chair at Lewis & Clark Law School. She is a scholar of immigration law and crimmigration law, the intersection of immigration and criminal law. Her research seeks to illuminate the study of immigration law with interdisciplinary insights. She has published widely in leading journals and books, including a series of crimmigration articles beginning with The Crimmigration Crisis: Immigrants, Crime, and Sovereign Power, 56 AM. U. L. REV. 367 (2006), and she co-authors the casebook Immigration and Citizenship: Process and Policy (9th ed. West 2020). She has been recognized as one of the ten most-cited immigration law scholars in the United States.

Stumpf co-founded CINETS, the transnational, interdisciplinary network of crimmigration scholars. She formerly co-directed the academic network, Border Criminologies at Oxford University with its founder, Mary Bosworth. She serves on the Board of Directors of the Innovation Law Lab.

Stumpf was elected to the American Law Institute in 2022 and received the Edmund O. Belsheim chair in 2023. In 2016, she received the Leo Levenson Award for Excellence in Teaching. The National Law Journal named her an Immigration Law Trailblazer.

Stumpf has taught at NYU School of Law and Leiden University, clerked for Judge Richard A. Paez on the Ninth Circuit, and served as a civil rights attorney with the U.S. Justice Department. She received her JD cum laude from the Georgetown University Law Center and her BA in English Literature from Oberlin College.

Other key publications include Liminal Immigration Law, 108 IOWA L. REV. 1531 (2023) (with Stephen Manning), Understanding Sanctuary Cities, 59 B.C. L. REV. 1703 (2018) (with Christopher Lasch, et al.); Doing Time: Crimmigration Law and the Perils of Haste, 58 UCLA L. REV. 1705 (2011); and States of Confusion: the Rise of State and Local Power over Immigration, 86 N.C. L. REV. 1557 (2008).

Specialty Areas and Course Descriptions

Academic Credentials

• BA 1989 Oberlin College
• JD cum laude 1995 Georgetown University

Bibliography

Works Published As Part of a Collection

• Preemption and Proportionality in State and Local Crimmigration Law in The Constitution and the Future of Criminal Justice (John T. Parry & L. Song Richardson, eds.) (2013).
• The Process is the Punishment in Crimmigration Law in The Borders of Punishment: Criminal Justice, Citizenship and Social Exclusion (Mary Bosworth & Katja Aas, eds.) (2013).
• Introduction to Social Control and Justice: Crimmigration in the Age of Fear (Maria Joao Guia, Maartje Van Der Woude & Joanne Van Der Leun, eds.), Eleven International Press (2013).
• Two Profiles of Crimmigration Law: Criminal Deportation and Illegal Migration in Globalisation and the Challenge to Criminology (Francis Pakes, ed.), Routledge Press (2013).
• Getting to Work, 2 U.C. Irvine L. Rev. 381 (2012).
• Of Criminals and Aliens: Crimmigration Law and the Elusive Quest for Justice inLandscapes of Justice and Security, Routledge Press (forthcoming 2011).
• Doing Time: Crimmigration Law and the Perils of Haste, 58 UCLA L. Rev. 1705 (2011).
• Designing Populations: Lessons in Power and Population Production from Nineteenth-Century Immigration Law, 64 Vand. L. Rev. En Banc 29 (2011).
• Daniel J. Chepaitis & Andrea K. Panagakis, Individualism Submerged: Climate Change and the Perils of an Engineered Environment(Juliet P. Stumpf, ed.), 28 UCLA J. Envtl. L. & Pol’y 291 (2010).
• The Implausible Alien: Iqbal and the Influence of Immigration Law, 14 Lewis & Clark L. Rev. 231 (2010) (symposium).
• Fitting Punishment, 66 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 1683 (2009).
• States of Confusion: The Rise of State and Local Power Over Immigration, 86 N. C. L. Rev. 1557 (2008).
• The Crimmigration Crisis: Immigrants, Crime, and Sovereign Power, 56 Am. U. L. Rev. 367 (2006).
• English-Only Cases: Litigating the Diverse Workplace, 34 ABA Emp. & Lab. L. 6 (summer 2006).
• Penalizing Immigrants, 18 Fed. Sentencing Rptr. 264 (2006).
• Citizens of an Enemy Land: Enemy Combatants, Aliens, and the Constitutional Rights of the Pseudo-Citize n, 38 U.C. Davis L. Rev. 79 (2004), reprinted in Workplace Discrimination Privacy and Security in an age of Terrorism: Proceedings of the New York University 55th Annual Conference on Labor 57 (Matthew Bodie & Sam Estreicher eds., Kluwer Law Int’l 2007).
• Advancing Civil Rights through Immigration Law: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back?, 6 N.Y.U. J. Legis. & Pub. Pol’y 1, 131 (2002-2003) (co-authored with Bruce Friedman). Version published as Speaking a New Language: Immigration and Civil Rights in a Global Economy, 15 Dve Domovini/Two Homelands 1, 121 (2002).