Letter from the Editor-in-chief

• Jurisdiction: United States,Federal
• Citation: Vol. 2 No. 1
• Publication year: 2020
• topic: Administrative Law,Tax Law,Immigration Law,Technology

Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia

Welcome to the official second volume of the AILA Law Journal! In my immigration law class at Penn State, I opened the 2020 semester with a theme that "Immigration is everywhere." I use this theme to generate a discussion about the ways immigration law touches or intersects with other fields of law. "Immigration law is everywhere" is likewise a defining theme in the current issue of the AILA Law Journal. This issue contains five dynamic articles connecting immigration law to administrative law, tax law, trauma, technology, and history. Each of our authors bring deep experience in the immigration field and are new to the AILA Law Journal.

Professor Maureen A. Sweeney argues that federal courts should not apply Chevron deference to Board of Immigration Appeals or Attorney General decisions on asylum or withholding of removal. She provides a background of Chevron and lays out specific reasons why deference is...