Linus Chan

Linus Chan

  • James H. Binger Clinical Professor of Law
  • Clinical Professor of Law
96K Mondale Hall

Degrees

  • University of Chicago, A.B.
  • Northwestern University School of Law, J.D.

Expertise

  • Detainee Rights
  • Immigration Law
  • Clinical Legal Education

Linus Chan is an associate professor of clinical law and the director of the Detainee Rights Clinic. He is an immigration attorney that focuses removal defense for those detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. He also teaches in the area of intersection of criminal and immigration law.

Criminal Law


Detainee Rights Clinic


Immigration and Criminal Law: Immigration Consequences of Crimes and Criminalizing Migration


Detainee Rights Clinic Student Directors


Books

Immigration Simulations: Bridge to Practice (West Academic, 2018)
(with
Regina Jefferies
)

Journal Articles

Crimmigrating Narratives: Examining Third-Party Observations of US Detained Immigration Court, 48 Law & Social Inquiry 407 (2023)
(with
Christopher Levesque
,
Jack DeWaard
,
Michele Garnett McKenzie
,
Kazumi Tsuchiya
,
Olivia Toles
,
Amy Lange
,
Kim Horner
,
Eric Ryu
and
Elizabeth Heger Boyle
)
Process as Suffering: How U.S. Immigration Court Process and Culture Prevent Substantive Justice, 86 Albany Law Review 471 (2023)
(with
Christopher Levesque
and
Kimberly Horner
)
Perceived Structural Vulnerabilities Among Detained Noncitizen Immigrants in Minnesota, 16(6) PLOS One (2021)
(with
Kazumi Tsuchiya
,
Olivia Toles
,
Christopher Levesque
,
Kimberly Horner
,
Eric Ryu
and
Jack DeWaard
)
Weighing Pain: How the Harm of Immigration Detention Must Be Factored in Custody Decisions, 27 William and Mary Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice 865 (2021)
The Promise and Failure of Silence as a Shield Against Immigration Enforcement, 52 Valparaiso University Law Review 289 (2018)
Understanding "Sanctuary Cities," 59 Boston College Law Review 1703 (2018)
(with
Christopher N. Lasch
,
Ingrid V. Eagly
,
Dina Francesca Haynes
,
Annie Lai
,
Elizabeth McCormick
and
Juliet P. Stumpf
)
Unjust Deserts: How the Modern Deportation System Lacks Moral Credibility, 16 Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law 103 (2018)
The Right to Travel: Breaking Down the Thousand Petty Fortresses of State Self-Deportation Laws, 34 Pace Law Review 814 (2014)
Re-Interpreting Postville: A Legal Perspective, 2 DePaul Journal for Social Justice 31 (2008)
(with
Sioban Albiol
and
Sarah J. Diaz
)

Other Publications

BIA: City Drug Ordinance Violation Is a State Law Conviction; Counts for Recidivist Offender Purposes, crImmigration, July 31, 2012 (guest blogger)
Professor, Detainee Rights Clinic
James H. Binger Center for New Americans