Review: Immigration Judges and US Asylum Policy

Document Type

Book Review

Publication Date

11-1-2016

Publication Title

Law and Politics Book Review

Volume

26

Issue

7

First page number:

138

Last page number:

140

Abstract

Overall, this book is an important contribution to our understanding of administrative decision making in asylum cases. In my view, this book’s key contribution is not just the impressive dataset, but also the creative use to which it is put. I anticipate that readers without quantitative methods training may have some difficulty with this book. My sense is that even legal academics who are very knowledgeable about—and interested in—the substance of the book would have trouble navigating past the asides about the nuts and bolts of the statistical analyses. But this is a problem inherent in this kind of endeavor, and I hope it does not deter researchers and practitioners from reading this ambitious and innovative book.


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