Georgetown Dean Treanor invites YLS alumni to a Illustrated Presentation

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<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 18pt">Georgetown University Law Center</SPAN></B> </P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><SPAN><BR></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 14pt">Executive Vice President and <B>Dean William M. Treanor</B> (YLS '85)<BR>invites you to attend an illustrated presentation celebrating the publication of<BR> <BR><B>Refugee Roulette:</B></SPAN><B> </B><B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 14pt">Disparities in Asylum <BR>Adjudication and Proposals for Reform</SPAN></B><B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif; COLOR: blue; FONT-SIZE: 14pt"> <BR><BR></SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 14pt">Published by <BR>NYU Press 2009 <BR><BR>Authored by <BR>Jaya Ramji-Nogales (YLS '99), Andrew I. Schoenholtz, <BR>and Philip G. Schrag (YLS '67)<BR> <BR> Presentations and Comments by<BR><B>Professor Andrew I. Schoenholtz</B>, Georgetown University Law Center<BR><B>Professor Philip G. Schrag</B> (YLS '67), Georgetown University Law Center<BR><B>Professor Jaya Ramji-Nogales</B> (YLS '99), Temple University, Beasley School of Law<BR><FONT size=4><STRONG>Judge Robert A. Katzmann</STRONG> (YLS '80), U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, Commentator <BR>[</FONT><STRONG>Judge Guido Calabresi</STRONG> (YLS '58)</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt">, </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><STRONG>canceled] <BR></STRONG></SPAN></P>
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<P><SPAN style="COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif; COLOR: navy">Immigration law practitioners have long suspected that the likelihood of winning asylum depends in large measure on which asylum officer or immigration judge is assigned to adjudicate a case. The authors have drawn on immense databases to test the truth of these suspicions. They will present their findings:</SPAN> </P>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif; COLOR: navy">• Examining the degrees of disparity among asylum officers; </SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif; COLOR: navy">• Revealing the extent to which immigration judges differ in similar asylum cases, and the correlations between those differences and the genders and prior work experiences of <X-TAB> </X-TAB> the judges </SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif; COLOR: navy">• Demonstrating the effects of Attorney General Ashcroft’s “streamlining reforms” on the adjudication of asylum appeals at the Board of Immigration Appeals; and </SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 12pt 0.5in"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif; COLOR: navy">• Showing the differences among and within U.S. Courts of Appeals when they review asylum decisions of the Board.</SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0in 0in 12pt 0.5in" align=center><B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 14pt">Thursday, September 30, 2010<BR>4:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.</SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><BR> <BR>Georgetown University Law Center<BR>Gewirz Student Center, 12th Floor<BR>120 F Street, Northwest<BR>Washington, District of Columbia<BR><BR>Reception to follow </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 18pt"><BR></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt">Please RSVP by September 22nd to <A href="mailto:rsvp2@law.georgetown.edu">rsvp2@law.georgetown.edu</A></SPAN></P>
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