Kerry Abrams

Articles & Essays

Moral Economies of Family Reunification in the Trump Era: Translating Natural Affiliation, Autonomy and Stability Arguments into Constitutional Rights, in Transnational Marriage and Partner Migration: Constellations of Security, Citizenship, and Rights 125-149 (Anne-Marie D'Aoust, ed., 2022) (with Daniel Pham)
Family, Gender, and Leadership in the Legal Profession, Women & Law 1-17 (2020) (joint publication of the top sixteen law reviews)
Foreword: Gender Journals and Gender Equality: Reflections on Twenty-five Years of the Duke Journal of Gender Law and Policy, 27 Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy iii-vii (2020)
No More Blood, in Debating Transformations of National Citizenship 121-125 (Rainer Bauböck, ed., 2018)
The Rights of Marriage: Obergefell, Din, and the Future of Constitutional Family Law, 103 Cornell Law Review 501-564 (2018)
Cumulative Constitutional Rights, 97 Boston University Law Review 1309-1355 (2017) (with Brandon L. Garrett)
Domicile Dismantled, 92 Indiana Law Journal 387-433 (Spring 2017) (with Kathryn Barber)
Family Reunification and the Security State, 32 Constitutional Commentary 247-280 (Summer 2017)
DNA and Distrust, 91 Notre Dame Law Review 757-814 (2016) (with Brandon L. Garrett)
(Mis)Recognizing Polygamy, in The Polygamy Question (Janet Bennion and Lisa Fishbayn Joff eds., 2016)
Foreword: The Future of Immigration Enforcement: A Tribute to David Martin, 30 Journal of Law & Politics 401-410 (Spring 2015)
No More Blood, in Bloodlines and Belonging: Time to Abandon Ius Sanguinis? 27-29 (Costica Dumbrava & Rainer Bauböck, eds., 2015) (EUI Working Paper RSCAS 2015/80)
Structured Dialogue on Building a Sustainable, Stable Immigration Enforcement System, 30 Journal of Law & Politics 555-579 (Spring 2015)
Immigration's Family Values, 100 Virginia Law Review 629-709 (2014) (with R. Kent Piacenti)
Brief of Amici Curiae Edward D. Stein, Joanna L. Grossman, Kerry Abrams, Holning Lau, Katharine S. Silbaugh, et al in Support of Respondents, Hollingsworth v. Perry (2013)
Citizen Spouse, 101 California Law Review 407-444 (2013)
Family History: Inside and Out, 111 Michigan Law Review 1001-1020 (2013) (reviewing Joanna L. Grossman & Lawrence M. Friedman, Inside the Castle: Law and the Family in 20th Century America (2011))
Plenary Power Preemption, 99 Virginia Law Review 601-640 (2013)
The End of Annulment, 16 Journal of Gender, Race and Justice 681-703 (Summer 2013)
What Makes the Family Special?, 80 University of Chicago Law Review 7-28 (2013)
Marriage Fraud, 100 California Law Review 1-67 (2012)
Peaceful Penetration: Proxy Marriage, Same-Sex Marriage, and Recognition, 2011 Michigan State Law Review 141-172 (2011)
Brief of Amici Curiae of Professors of History, Political Science, and Law in Support of Petitioner, Flores-Villar v. United States of America, Brief of Amici Curiae of Professors of History, Political Science, and Law in Support of Petitioner, Flores-Villar v. United States of America (with 7 others), (2010); reprinted in 91 Boston University Law Review 1497 (2011)
The Hidden Dimension of Nineteenth-Century Immigration Law, 62 Vanderbilt Law Review 1353-1418 (2009)
Becoming a Citizen: Marriage, Immigration, and Assimilation, in Gender Equality: Dimensions of Women's Equal Citizenship 39-59 (Linda McClain and Joanna Grossman eds., 2009)
Marriage as a Message: Same-Sex Couples and the Rhetoric of Accidental Procreation, 21 Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities 1-35 (2009) (with Peter Brooks)
Immigration Law and the Regulation of Marriage, 91 Minnesota Law Review 1625 (2007) Reprinted in 12 Bender's Immigration Bulletin 1421 (2007)
Mae M. Ngai, Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America , 25 Law and History Review 428-429 (2007) (reviewing Mae M. Ngai, Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America (2014))
Immigration Status and the Best Interests of the Child Standard, 14 Virginia Journal of Social Policy & Law 87-102 (Fall 2006)
Polygamy, Prostitution, and the Federalization of Immigration Law, 105 Columbia Law Review 641-716 (2005)

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

Flirting with Federal Family Law, JOTWELL.COM (March 13, 2017) (reviewing Daniel J. Hemel and Lisa Larrimore Ouellette, Innovation Policy Pluralism, 128 Yale Law Journal (forthcoming))
Clear Violation: All the Many Ways Trump's Muslim Ban Goes against the Constitution, Slate.com (January 30, 2017) (with Brandon L. Garrett)
Restructuring Family Law, JOTWELL.COM (April 20, 2015) (reviewing lare Huntington, Failure to Flourish: How Law Undermines Family Relationships (2014))
Labor Protection Parity for Au Pairs, JOTWELL.COM (January 24, 2014) (reviewing Janie A. Chuang, The U.S. Au Pair Program: Labor Exploitation and the Myth of Cultural Exchange, 36 Harvard Journal of Law & Gender 269 (2013))
Making "Admin" Visible, JOTWELL.COM (January 16, 2014) (reviewing Elizabeth F. Emens, Admin, 103 Georgetown Law Journal 1409 (2015))
Marriage Equality and Immigration (July 1, 2013); Marriage and Immigration—Which State's Law Applies (July 8, 2013); Marriage Equality, Immigration, and ... Fraud? (July 15, 2013) Concurring Opinions
Reconsidering Work and Family with "The Marriage Equation", JOTWELL.COM (January 11, 2013) (reviewing Deborah A. Widiss, Changing the Marriage Equation, 89 Washington University Law Review 721 (2012))

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