Jennifer M. Chacón, Author at Harvard Law Review

Legal Borderlands and Imperial Legacies: A Response to Maggie Blackhawk’s The Constitution of American Colonialism

Response to The Constitution of American Colonialism

Vol. 137 No. 1 November 2023 What are the borderlands? In her brilliant and sweeping exploration of the “constitution of American colonialism,” Professor Maggie Blackhawk references the borderlands dozens of...

Jennifer M. Chacón

Immigration Book Review

Unsettling History

Vol. 131 No. 4 February 2018 At the time she set out to write City of Inmates, Professor Kelly Lytle Hernández wanted to tell the story of the “long rise...

Jennifer M. Chacón

Executive Power Essay

Immigration and the Bully Pulpit

Vol. 130 No. 7 May 2017 One evening in early February, I sat in a nondescript hall in a local community center in a Southern California city. This city is...

Jennifer M. Chacón