articles & essays
Knowledge and Democracy at Risk: From Florida to Pennsylvania and Beyond, 16 Drexel Law Review 685 (2024)
Judicial Illiberalism: How Captured Courts Are Entrenching Trump-Era Immigration Policies, 27 Bender's Immigr. Bull. 1971-79 (2022)
Immigration Enforcement, Strategic Entrenchment, and the Dead Hand of the Trump Presidency, 2021 University of Illinois Law Review Online 46 (Biden 100 Days)
Hamilton and the Limits of Contemporary Immigration Discourse, in Hamilton and the Law: Reading Today's Most Contentious Legal Issues Through the Hit Musical (Lisa A. Tucker ed., Cornell Univ. Press, 2020)
Revisiting the 1996 Experiment in Comprehensive Immigration Severity in the Age of Trump, 9 Drexel Law Review 261 (2017)
DAPA, "Lawful Presence," and the Illusion of a Problem, Yale Journal on Regulation Notice & Comment, Feb. 12, 2016
Deferred Action, Supervised Enforcement Discretion, and the Litigation Over Administrative Action on Immigration, 62 UCLA Law Review Discourse 58 (2015)
A Comprehensive Approach to "Immigrant-Friendly" State and Local Policies, Drexel Policy Notes, Summer 2015, at 7
Detention of Asylum Seekers En Masse: Immigration Detention in the United States, in Immigration Detention: The Global Journey of a Policy (Amy Nethery & Stephanie J. Silverman eds., Routledge, 2015) (with Christina Elefteriades Haines)
Immigration Surveillance, 74 Maryland Law Review 1 (2014)
Stop and Frisk, Judicial Independence, and the Ironies of Improper Appearances, 27 Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics 1043 (2014)
Immigration Policing and Federalism Through the Lens of Technology, Surveillance, and Privacy, 74 Ohio State Law Journal 1105 (2013)
Thinking Critically About International and Transnational Legal Education, 5 Drexel Law Review 285 (2013)
"Gray Zone" Constitutionalism and the Dilemma of Judicial Independence in Pakistan, 46 Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law 1 (2013)
Rethinking Immigration Detention, 110 Columbia Law Review Sidebar 42 (2010)
Constitution and "Extraconstitution": Emergency Powers in Postcolonial Pakistan and India, in Emergency Powers in Asia (Ramraj & Thiruvengadam eds., Cambridge Univ. Press, 2010)
Perspectives on Fundamental Rights in South Asia, 2 Drexel Law Review 361 (2010)
Land Rights Issues in International Human Rights Law, 4 Malaysian Journal of Human Rights 16 (2010) (with Elisabeth Wickeri)
The Fourth Amendment and Privacy Implications of Interior Immigration Enforcement, 41 U.C. Davis Law Review 1137 (2008)
Immigration Enforcement and Federalism After September 11, 2001, in Immigration, Integration, and Security: America and Europe in Comparative Perspective (Chebel d'Appollonia & Reich eds., Univ. of Pittsburgh Press, 2008)
Colonial Continuities: Human Rights, Antiterrorism, and Security Laws in India (Abridged Version), 62 Record of the Ass'n of the Bar of the City of New York 375 (2007)
Colonial Continuities: Human Rights, Antiterrorism, and Security Laws in India, 20 Columbia Journal of Asian Law 93 (2006)
edited collections
Symposium: Knowledge at Risk: Democratic Erosion and the Contemporary Assault on Education and Expertise, 16 Drexel Law Review 685 (Anil Kalhan ed., 2024)
Symposium: Twenty Years After the 1996 Immigration Laws: Revisiting an Experiment in Comprehensive Severity, 9 Drexel Law Review 261 (Anil Kalhan ed. 2017)
Symposium: The Postcolonial Lives of Colonial Law in South Asia, 31 American University International Law Review (Anil Kalhan ed. 2016)
Symposium: Building Global Professionalism: Emerging Trends in International and Transnational Legal Education, 5 Drexel Law Review 285 (Anil Kalhan ed. 2013)
Symposium: Perspectives on Fundamental Rights in South Asia, 2 Drexel Law Review 361 (Anil Kalhan ed. 2010)
op-eds, columns, & features
We Fear a Dystopian Future for Florida’s Public Universities, Tampa Bay Times, Dec. 16, 2023, at 22A (with Afshan Jafar, Emily M.S. Houh, and Henry Reichman).
Judicial Illiberalism: How Captured Courts Are Entrenching Trump-Era Immigration Policies, Lex, Sep. 2022, at 28-35
Trump v. Hawaii and Chief Justice Roberts's "Korematsu Overruled" Parlor Trick, American Constitution Society Expert Forum, June 29, 2018
No Immunity from Cholera: How to Hold the United Nations to Account, Foreign Affairs, July 13, 2016 (with Debra L. Raskin)
Supreme Justices Silently Back Anti-Immigrant Extremist Judge, Newsweek, June 28, 2016
Ending Judicial Truthiness on Immigration, Washington Monthly, Apr. 18, 2016
Initial Reactions to Obama's Immigration Speech, The World (Public Radio International), Nov. 20, 2014.
Beyond Judicial Populism, Express Tribune (Pakistan), Dec. 24, 2013, at 7
Q&A: "The SC Has Treated Judicial Independence as a Static Concept," The News on Sunday (Pakistan), Dec. 8, 2013, at 33
Courting Power, Herald (Pakistan), Nov. 2013, at 36
Debate Room: No Time to Desert Musharraf? Con: Distance Is the Best Policy, BusinessWeek, Dec. 31, 2007
Insisting on Elections in Pakistan Is Not Enough, New America Media, Nov. 9, 2007
Whither Pakistan's Charter of Democracy?, AsiaMedia, Sep. 8, 2007
Musharraf's Global War on Journalism, AsiaMedia, June 6, 2007
The Looming Clouds of Emergency?, AsiaMedia, May 18, 2007
other online media
Contributor, Dorf on Law (2007-present)
Guest Contributor, ImmigrationProf Blog (2012)
Guest Contributor, Chapati Mystery (2012)
Contributor, SAJAforum (2008-present)
reviews, reports, & other publications
DACA Litigation and the Opportunity for All Campaign, 6 American Immigration Lawyers Association Law Journal 29 (Spring 2024) (with Kaitlyn A. Box and Ahilan T. Arulanantham) (edited and annotated transcript of discussion).
Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986, in Latino History and Culture: An Encyclopedia (Leonard & Lugo-Lugo eds., M.E. Sharpe, 2009)
Immigration & Nationality Act of 1965, in Latino History and Culture: An Encyclopedia (Leonard & Lugo-Lugo eds., M.E. Sharpe, 2009)
Immigration Law: The "Plenary Power" Doctrine, in The Encyclopedia of the Supreme Court (Schultz ed., Facts on File, 2005)
Recent Publication, 24 Yale Journal of International Law 342 (1999) (reviewing Peter H. Schuck, Citizens, Strangers, and In-Betweens: Essays on Immigration and Citizenship (1998))
Recent Publication, 21 Yale Journal of International Law 502 (1996) (reviewing M. Sornarajah, The Law of Foreign Investment (1994))