Emily Ryo

Professor of Law and Sociology

Email: eryo@law.usc.edu
699 Exposition Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90089-0074 USA Room: 406
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Last Updated: June 17, 2019

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Emily Ryo is a professor of law and sociology at the USC Gould School of Law. She received a JD from Harvard Law School and a PhD in Sociology from Stanford University. Immediately prior to joining USC, she was a research fellow at Stanford Law School. She served as a law clerk to the Honorable M. Margaret McKeown of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, and practiced law at the international law firm of Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen, and Hamilton.

Her current research focuses on immigration, criminal justice, legal attitudes and legal noncompliance, and procedural justice. She approaches these issues through innovative interdisciplinary lenses, using diverse quantitative and qualitative methods. As an empirical legal scholar, she has published widely in both leading sociology and law journals. She has been awarded the 2017 Andrew Carnegie Fellowship to support her scholarship.

 

Publications

• “Children in Custody: A Study of Detained Migrant Children in the United States,” UCLA Law Review (with Reed Humphrey) (forthcoming).
• "Denying Citizenship: Immigration Enforcement and Citizenship Rights in the United States," Studies in Law, Politics, and Society (with Ian Peacock) (forthcoming). - (SSRN)
• "Jailing Immigrant Detainees: A National Study of County Participation in Immigration Detention, 1983-2013," Law & Society Review (with Ian Peacock).  - (SSRN) - (bepress) - (www)
• “Understanding Immigration Detention: Causes, Conditions, and Consequences,” 15 Annual Review of Law and Social Science 97 (2019). - (www) - (SSRN)
• “Beyond the Walls: The Importance of Community Contexts in Immigration Detention," 63 American Behavioral Scientist 1250 (2019) (with Ian Peacock) . - (www)
•  “Detention as Deterrence,” 71 Stanford Law Review Online 237-250 (2019) - (www)
• "Predicting Danger in Immigration Courts," 44 Law and Social Inquiry 227 (2019). - (bepress) - (www)
• "A National Study of Immigration Detention in the United States," 92 Southern California Law Review 1 (2018) (with Ian Peacock). - (SSRN) - (bepress) - (Hein)
• "Representing Immigrants: The Role of Lawyers in Immigration Bond Hearings," 52 Law & Society Review 503 (2018). - (SSRN) - (bepress) - (www)
• “Fostering Legal Cynicism through Immigration Detention,” 90 Southern California Law Review 999 (2017). - (Hein) - (SSRN) - (bepress)
• "On Normative Effects of Immigration Law," 13 Stanford Journal of Civil Rights & Civil Liberties 95 (2017). - (SSRN) - (Hein)
• "The Promise of a Subject-Centered Approach to Understanding Immigration Noncompliance," 5 Journal on Migration and Human Security 285 (2017). - (PDF) - (www)
• “Legal Attitudes of Immigrant Detainees,” 51 Law & Society Review 99 (2017). - (SSRN) - (bepress) - (www)
• “Detained: A Study of Immigration Bond Hearings,” 50 Law & Society Review 117 (2016). - (SSRN) - (bepress) - (www)
• “Less Enforcement, More Compliance: Rethinking Unauthorized Migration,” 62 UCLA Law Review 622 (2015) - (www) - (SSRN) - (bepress) - (Hein)
• “Moral Judgments, Expressive Functions, and Bias in Immigration Law,” 35 Immigration and Nationality Law Review 3 (2014). - (SSRN) - (bepress)
• "Deciding to Cross: The Norms and Economics of Unauthorized Migration," 78 American Sociological Review 574 (2013). - (www) - (bepress)
• "Poverty Alleviation through Public Works," in Rebuild America: Solving the Economic Crisis through Civic Works (Scott Myers-Lipston ed.) (Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers, 2009).
• "The Lost Sanctuary: Examining Sex Trafficking through the Lens of United Status v. Ah Sou," 41 Cornell International Law Journal 739 (2008) (with Hon. M. Margaret McKeown). - (Hein) - (bepress)
• "Culture of Poverty," in Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity, and Society (Richard T. Schaefer ed.) (Thousan Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2008).
• "Organizational Diversity, Vitality, and Outcomes in the Civil Rights Movement," 85 Social Forces 1561 (2007) (with Susan Olzak). - (bepress) - (Hein)
• "Through the Back Door: Applying Theories of Legal Compliance to Illegal Immigration During the Chinese Exclusion Era," 31 Law and Social Inquiry 109 (2006). - (Hein) - (bepress)
• "Did Katrina Recalibrate Attitudes Towards Poverty and Inequality? A Test of the 'Dirty Little Secret' Hypothesis," 3 Du Bois Review 59 (2006) (with D. Grusky). - (bepress) - (www)
• "Elusive Citizenship: Immigration, Asian Americans, and the Paradox of Civil Rights," 2 Law, Culture and Humanities 472 (2006) (book review). - (www)

FACULTY IN THE NEWS

FOX 5 Atlanta
February 12, 2021
Re: Elyn Saks

Elyn Saks was mentioned in a segment with Madison Iseman, who plays the role of a teenager living with schizophrenia in the new thriller, "Fear of Rain." "You start with a ton of research," Iseman said. "Tons and tons of videos and TED Talks, and there was actually one book, a memoir, that I kind of carried with me as a Bible. It’s called The Center Cannot Hold by Elyn Saks, and that really was the thing that really guided me through this entire thing."

RECENT SCHOLARSHIP

Hannah Garry
December, 2020

"State Control of Internet Access, Freedom of the Press and Atrocity Situations: Introductory Remarks," International Criminal Court Assembly of States Parties Virtual Side Event, International Criminal Court.

Hannah Garry
December, 2020

"The Eritrea Ethiopia Claims Commission: at the Intersection of International Dispute Resolution and Transitional Justice for Atrocity Crimes?" In By Peaceful Means: Adjudication and Arbitration of International Disputes, Oxford University Press.

Daniel Klerman
December, 2020

“Reputational Economies of Scale” (with Miguel de Figueiredo), International Review of Law & Economics (forthcoming 2021).