Letter from the Editor-in-chief

• Jurisdiction: United States,Federal
• Citation: Vol. 3 No. 1
• Publication year: 2021
• topic: Administrative Law,Immigration Law

Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia

I am excited to share the spring 2021 issue of the AILA Law Journal. Featured in this volume are five articles focused on a humanitarian option in immigration law. These articles offer original ideas for reforming immigration law in compelling and creative ways. The substantive and writing quality of this volume's articles is truly impressive, under truly extraordinary conditions.

In her piece "From China's One-Child Policy to Central America's Gender-Based Violence Epidemic: An Argument for Expansive Application of the 'Coercive Population Control' Political Opinion Ground," Sylvia D. Miller talks about asylum claims based on political opinion with a detailed analysis for why "coercive population control" should be extended to asylum seekers fleeing intimate partner violence or rape. She uses tools of statutory interpretation to show how the statute's text could extend to any person subjected to a forced abortion or...