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Law Professor Blogs is a network of web logs ("blogs") designed from the ground-up to assist law professors in their scholarship and teaching. Each site focuses on a particular area of law and combines both (1) regularly-updated permanent resources and links, and (2) daily news and information of interest to law professors. Our faculty are leading scholars and lawyers who are committed to providing the web destination for law professors in their fields.

Niels Frenzen - Migrants at Sea

Neils Frenzen

Niels Frenzen specializes in immigration law and is director of the USC Law Immigration Clinic. He has been teaching at USC since 2000 and practicing law since 1985.

Professor Frenzen has represented hundreds of asylum seekers and other immigrants, and has litigated numerous federal court cases challenging the mistreatment of noncitizens. He also has litigated immigration court national security cases involving classified evidence. He has participated in human rights delegations on behalf of Amnesty International USA, the International Association of Democratic Lawyers and other human rights organizations.

His blog follows the general subject of migration by sea from Africa to or towards Europe, including the subjects of maritime immigration enforcement, rescue at sea, and refugee and migrant rights and protections.

Migrants at Sea

David Cruz - Cruz Lines

David Cruz

Professor David Cruz is a constitutional law expert focusing on civil rights and equality issues, including equal marriage rights for same-sex couples. He specializes in discrimination law and the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender persons. He teaches Constitutional Law I; Constitutional Law II; Federal Courts; Sexual Orientation and the Law; International / Comparative Perspectives on Sex, Gender, and Sexual Orientation; Identity Categories; and Law, Identity, and Culture.

Professor Cruz graduated from the University of California, Irvine and earned his master's degree from Stanford University. He is a graduate of New York University School of Law, where he was managing editor of New York University Law Review.

Cruz Lines

Mary Dudziak - The Legal History Blog

Mary Dudziak

Mary L. Dudziak is a legal historian whose research focuses on international approaches to legal history. She has written extensively about the impact of foreign affairs on civil rights policy during the Cold War and other topics in 20th-century American legal history. Professor Dudziak teaches Constitutional Law, Procedure, Comparative Constitutional Law, Constitutional Politics in Africa, the Constitution in the 20th Century, Law and War in the 20th Century, and a seminar on Law and Social Change in Post-War America. She is currently a Member of the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, and she has received a Guggenheim Fellowship.

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