Kraehenbuehl on the Fugitive Slave Debate & State Enforcement of Federal Immigration Law

James Adam Kraehenbuehl (The University of Chicago Law School) has posted Lessons from the Past: How the Antebellum Fugitive Slave Debate Informs State Enforcement of Federal Immigration Law (University of Chicago Law Review, Vol. 78, No. 4, 2011) on SSRN. Here is the abstract:

This paper focuses on similarities todays immigration debate has with the fugitive slave debate in the antebellum United States. I argue that these similarities provide valuable lessons for todays debate over the constitutionality and potential consequences that differing levels of enforcement on the... [via Legal Theory Blog]