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Immigration Law

A Selective Bibliography


I. Reference   II. Handbooks, Manuals, and Guides   III. Reports and Treatises  
IV. Periodicals   V. Electronic Resources    


I. Reference

Bender's Immigration and Nationality Act Service. New York: M. Bender, c1999- 1 v. (Loose-leaf supplementation)
Location: Reserve Collection KF/4819/G6255

Hing, Bill Ong. Immigration and the Law: a Dictionary. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, c1999.
Location: Reference Collection KF/4817/H56/1999

Federal Immigration Laws, Regulations & Forms. St Paul, Minn.: West Publishing Co., 1988-
Location: Reserve Collection KF/4805.99/F33 (Annual - Latest edition only)

Kurzban, Ira J. Kurzban's Immigration Law Sourcebook: a Comprehensive Outline and Reference Tool. 8th ed. Washington, D.C.: American Immigration Law Foundation, c2002.
Location: Reserve Collection KF/4819.3/K87/2002 (Earlier editions in the general collection)
Updates and corrections:
www.aila.org/book_updates

Martin, David A. Asylum Case Law Sourcebook: Master Index and Case Abstracts for U.S. Court Decisions. 4th ed. St. Paul, Minn: Thomson/West Group, 2003.
Location: Reference Collection KF/4836/A53/M37/2003

Patel, P. J. Patel's Citations of Administrative Decisions under Immigration and Nationality Laws. New York: Legal Research Bureau, c1982- (Annual)
Location: Reference Collection Ref KF4812.5 P37

Statistical Yearbook of the Immigration and Naturalization Service. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Justice, Immigration and Naturalization Service. (Annual)
Continued by Yearbook of Immigration Statistics, infra.
Location 1: Microforms Collection, 2nd Floor, West. J21.2:St/2/965-981
J 21.2/10:982-996
Location 2: U.S. Documents, 1st Floor, West: J 21.2:St 2/978-981
J 21.2/10:982, 984, 997
http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS5957

Yearbook of Immigration Statistics [electronic resource] Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Office of Immigration Statistics, 2002- Annual
Continues Statistical Yearbook of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, supra.
http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS40400
See also the Yearbook page of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, Office of Immigration Statistics:
http://uscis.gov/graphics/shared/statistics/yearbook/index.htm


II. Handbooks, Manuals, and Guides

AILA's Family Immigration Law Handbook. Editor-in-chief, Lenni B. Benson. associate editors, Janet B. Beck ... [et al.]; managing editor, Amy R. Novick. Washington, DC : American Immigration Lawyers Association, 1994.
Location: KF/4819.3/A352/1994

Fragomen, Austin T. Jr. and Steven C. Bell. Immigration Employment Compliance Handbook. [New York]: Clark Boardman Co., c1987-(Annual)
Location: KF/4829/Z9/I43

Fragomen, Austin T and Steven C. Bell. Immigration Fundamentals: A Guide to Law and Practice. 4th ed. New York: Practising Law Institute, c1996. 1 v. (Loose-leaf supplementation)
Location: Reserve Collection KF/4819/F72/1996

Germain, Regina. AILA's Asylum Primer : a Practical Guide to U.S. Asylum Law and Procedure. 3rd ed. Washington, DC : American Immigration Lawyers Association, 2003.
Location: KF/4836/Z9/G47/2003

H-1B handbook. Deerfield, IL: Clark Boardman Callaghan, c1995- (Annual)
Location: Reserve Collection KF/4829/H17 (Earlier editions in general collection)

Hing, Bill Ong. Handling Immigration Cases. 2nd ed. New York : Wiley Law Publications, c1995- 2 v. (Updated by annual pocket parts.)
Location: KF/4819/H56/1995

IIRAIRA: Selected Legislative History of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996. Washington, D.C.: American Immigration Lawyers Association, 1997.
Location: KF/4806.58/A15/I36/1997

Immigration & Nationality Law Handbook. New York: American Immigration Lawyers Association, 1991- 2 v. (Annual)
Location: KF/4819/A2/I47

The Immigration Act of 1990 Handbook: The Complete Practice Guide to the 1990 Act
. New York, NY: C. Boardman, c1991-c1998. (Annual) Holdings: 1991-1999/2000 ed.
Continued by: Immigration Act of 1990 Today, infra.
Location: KF/4806.57/S55

The Immigration Act of 1990 Today: Current State of the 1990 Changes in Immigration and Nationality Law. St. Paul, MN : West Group, c2000- (Annual) Holdings: 2000/2001-
Continues Immigration Act of 1990 Handbook, supra.
Location: KF/4806.57/S55

Immigration Legislation Handbook. Deerfield, Ill.; New York, NY : Clark, Boardman, Callaghan, c1997-(Annual) Library has 1996 - 2003.
Location: K/4802/I485

Jasper, Margaret C. The Law of Immigration. 2nd ed. Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.: Oceana Publications, 2000. (Oceana's Legal Almanac Series: Law for the Layperson.)
Location: KF/4819.6/J37/2000

A Legal Guide for INS Detainees: Actions Brought Against INS or Other Law Enforcement Officials for Personal Injury or Property Damage or Loss. Washington, D.C.: American Bar Association, Commission on Immigration Policy, Practice and Pro Bono, 2002. 1 v. (various pagings ) Location: KF/4819/L43/2002

A Legal Guide for INS Detainees: How to Complain Effectively Step by Step. Washington, D.C.: American Bar Association, Commission on Immigration Policy, Practice and Pro Bono, 2002. 1 v. (various pagings) Location: KF/4819/L432/2002
A Legal Guide for INS Detainees: Petitioning for Release from Indefinite Detention. Washington, D.C.: American Bar Association, Commission on Immigration Policy, Practice and Pro Bono, 2002. 1 v. (various pagings) Location: KF/4819/L433/2002


Mailman, Stanley. Immigration Law and Procedure: Desk Edition. New York, N.Y.: LEXIS Publishing, 1996- (Loose-leaf supplementation )
Location: KF/4819/G623

McWhirter, Robert James. The Criminal Lawyer's Guide to Immigration Law: Questions and Answers. Chicago, Ill.: Criminal Justice Section, American Bar Association, c2001.
Location: KF/4819/M39/2001

McWhirter, Robert James. The Criminal Lawyer's Guide to Immigration Law: Questions and Answers: 2002 Supplement - USA PATRIOT Act. Chicago, IL: Criminal Justice Section, American Bar Association, 2003. Location: KF/4819/M391/2003

The Visa Processing Guide: Process and Procedures at U.S. Consulates and Embassies. Washington, D.C.: American Immigration Lawyers Association, 2004. 612 p.
Location: KF/4827/V57/2004-2005

Weissbrodt, David S. Immigration Law and Procedure in a Nutshell. 4th ed. St. Paul, Minn.: West Group, 1998.
Location: Reserve Collection KF/4819.3/W44/1998

III. Reports and Treatises

Anker, Deborah E and Paul T. Lufkin. The Law of Asylum in the United States. 3rd ed. Boston, MA: Refugee Law Center, c1999.
Location: KF/4836/A96/1999
Divine, Robert C. Immigration Practice. Charlottesville, Va: Michie Co., c1997- (Annual)
Location: KF/4819/D58 (Accompanying CD-ROM at the Circulation Desk)
    
Gordon, Charles and Stanley Mailman. Immigration Law and Procedure. Rev. ed. New York, N.Y.: Bender, 1988- 20 v. (Loose-leaf supplementation)
Location: Reserve Collection, KF4819 G625

Immigration and America's Future: A New Chapter: Report of the Independent Task Force on Immigration and America's Future. Spenser Abraham and Lee H. Hamilton, Co-chairs. Washington, D.C.: Migration Policy Institute, 2006 .
Location: KF/4819/I42/2006
Executive Summary: http://www.migrationpolicy.org/task_force/new_chapter_summary.pdf

Immigration Law and Defense. The Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild. 3rd ed. New York, N.Y.: C. Boardman, c1988- 2 v. (Loose-leaf supplementation)
Location: KF/8925/E4/I46/1988

Lynch, James P. and Simon, Rita J. Immigration the World Over: Statutes, Policies, and Practices. Lanham, MD: Rowan & Littlefield, 2003. Location: K/3275/L96/2003

Ngai, Mae M. Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2004.
Location: KF/4800/N485/2004

Selected Fundamentals of Immigration Law and Practice. Washington, D.C.: American Immigration Lawyers Association. Annual.
Location: KF/4819/S45/year

Symposium: Law and the Border
. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA School of Law, 2003. (Issued in UCLA Law Review, v. 51, no. 1, Oct. 2003.)
Location: KF/4848/M48/S97/2003

IV. Periodicals

The following is a selected list of active periodicals on the topic of immigration law. Unless otherwise indicated, all titles are available in the Law Library Periodicals Collection, located on the third floor, and are arranged alphabetically by title.

Bender's Immigration Bulletin
.
Part of Immigration Law and Procedure, supra. Location: Reserve Collection KF/4819/G625

Georgetown Immigration Law Journal. Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Law Center, 1985- v. 1, no. 1, (Fall 1985)-
(Also available through LexisNexis, v. 12 (1997)- )

Immigration and Nationality Law Review. Buffalo, W.S. Hein & Co., 1976- v. 1 (1976/77)- (Also available through Hein Online.)

Immigration Briefings. [Washington, D.C.]: Federal Publications, 1988- No. 88-1 (Jan. 1988)-
Holdings: 89-1 (January 1989)-

Immigration Business News & Comment. [St. Paul, Minn.]: West Group, 1999- v. 1, no. 1 (Sept. 1, 1999)-

Immigration Law Advisory. Rochester, NY: Lawyers Cooperative Pub. Co.; Bancroft
Whitney Pub. Co., 1985- No. 1 (Jan. 1985)- (Library retains current two years only)
Location: KF/4815/I47/Newsletter

Immigration Litigation Bulletin. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Dept. of Justice, 1997?-
http://www.usdoj.gov/civil/oil/immigration_bulletin.htm
Issues available online: v. 7, no. 1 (January 31, 2003) - to date

Interpreter Releases: Report and Analysis Of Immigration and Nationality Law. Washington, D.C.: Federal Publications.
Holdings: v. 66, no. 1 (January 1989)-

Selected Fundamentals of Immigration Law and Practice. Washington, D.C.: American Immigration Lawyers Association, 1996- (Annual)
Location: KF/4819/S45/
Holdings: 2003/2004-

Siskind's Immigration Bulletin
www.visalaw.com/bulletin.htm


To locate specific journal articles on immigration, try searching one of the databases of or indexes to legal periodicals available at the Law Library. Some of the indexes are only available in print and are located at the Periodicals Index Tables in the Grand Reading Room. Other indexes are available electronically through the Campus Libraries and Law Library Web Sites.

Name of Index   Location   Dates of Coverage  
Index to Legal Periodicals (and Books)   Periodicals Index Tables, Grand Reading Room   Index: 1880's to present  
Index to Legal Periodicals Full-Text   Campus and Law Library Web Sites   Index: August 1981 to present
Full-text (selected): 1990's to present  
Hein Online         
      
Campus and Law Library Web Sites   Full-text: First volume to most current allowed under contract  
Legal Resource Index   *LexisNexis (lawschool.lexis.com)
*Westlaw (lawschool.westlaw.com)  
1980 to present  

*Access restricted to Law School students, faculty, and staff

V. Electronic Resources

LexisNexis - See the Immigration Library (IMMIG) (page 237 ff) section of the LexisNexis 2006 Directory of Online Services
Location: Reference Collection KF/242/A1/L2/2006
(This directory is also available at http://web.nexis.com/sources/)

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Web site:
http://uscis.gov/graphics/index.htm

Westlaw - See the Immigration section (p. 835 ff) of the Westlaw Database Directory, 2007 Edition
Location: Reference Collection KF/242/A1/W253/2007
(This directory is also available at http://directory.westlaw.com.)



Compiled by Robert Nelsen
University of Wisconsin-Madison Law Library
April 2002 (immigration.wpd)
Revised May 2004 by Lynne Gehrke
June 12, 2007 by Bill Ebbott

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