Cities and Counties in the Global Economy: Local Economic and Immigration Policy

October 24, 2008, San Francisco, California.

Speaker biographies and detailed schedule 

About the organizers 

Program Materials 

Morning Session: Local Economic Policy

• Richard C. Schragger, Cities, Economic Development and the Free Trade Constitution, 94 Va. L. Rev. 1083 (2008) 

• Julian Gross, Community Benefit Agreements: Definitions, Values, and Legal Enforceability (2008)

Afternoon Session: Local Immigration Policy

• Cristina Rodriguez, The Significance of the Local in Immigration Regulation, 106 Mich. L.Rev. 567 (2008) 

• Laureen Laglagaron, Cristina Rodriguez, Alexa Silver, Sirithon Thanasombat, Regulating Immigration and the State Level: Highlights from the Database of 2007 State Immigration Legislation and the Methodology (Migrant Policy Institute, 2008) 

• Tanya Broder, State and Local Policies on Immigrant Access to Services:  Promoting Integration or Isolation?  (National Immigrant Law Center, 2007) 

• Pablo Mitnik, Jessica Halpern-Finnerty, Matt Vidal, Cities and Immigration: Local Policies for Immigrant-Friendly Cities. (Center on Wisconsin Strategy, 2008) 

• [ACLU summary of litigation]

• Scott Howard, The Changing Landscape of Day Laborer Regulations: An Update on Employment and Other Solicitation Cases (2008) (PDF)

• Scott Howard, Balancing Community and Day Laborer Interests (powerpoint presentation) (2008) (PDF)

• 8 U.S.C. § 1373

• 16 U.S.C. § 1644