Articles Authored by or Co-authored by Project South Legal & Advocacy Staff

• The Latest Crackdown on Pro-Palestinian Organizations
• The Antidote to Fear is Courage
• Trump Promised an Antiwar Presidency. He’s Delivered the Opposite
• The Colonial Order Prevails in Palestine: The Right to Self-Determination from a Third World Approach to International Law
• The War on Vietnam Ended 50 Years Ago and the U.S. Desperately Needs More Action on Agent Orange
• Trump and Biden Financed Duterte’s Crimes. They Too Should Pay for It
• From Atlanta to Kashmir, States Weaponize Counterterrorism Frameworks to Target Social Justice Movements
• Bridging the Accountability Gap: A Call to Action for Migrants Subjected to Abuse in U.S. Custody
• Legislation punishing free speech in support of Palestine has been introduced across the South
• “We Demand Justice”: People’s Tribunal Finds Marcos, Duterte and Biden Guilty of War Crimes
• “The International Criminal Court’s Arbitrary Exercise of Its Duties Under the Rome Statute to the Benefit of Western Global Supremacy.”The Human Rights Brief. 2023 (co-authored with Sofia Veronica Montez).
• “Reparations Owed to the Survivors of the Global War on Terror.”N.Y.U. Review of Law & Social Change. 2023 (co-authored with Divya Babbula).
• “From the Chinese Exclusion Act to the Muslim Ban: An Immigration System Built on Systemic Racism”. Harvard Law & Policy Review. 2023 (co-authored with Tina Al-khersan).
• “Deploying International Law to Combat Forced Labor in Immigration Detention Centers”. Georgetown Immigration Law Journal. 2022 (co-authored with Kyleen Burke).
• “Movement Lawyering: A Case Study in the U.S. South”. Howard Human & Civil Rights Law Review. 2020.
• “Decolonizing Justice in Tunisia: From Transitional Justice to a People’s Tribunal”. Monthly Review. 2019 (co-authored with Corinna Mullin and Nada Trigui).
• “From Pelican Bay to Palestine: The Legal Normalization of Force-Feeding Hunger-Strikers”. Michigan Journal of Race & Law. 2019 (co-authored with Priya Arvind Patel).
• “Sanctuary Policies: Local Resistance in the Face of State Anti-Sanctuary Legislation”. City University of New York Law Review. 2018 (co-authored with Amy Pont).
• “Local Police Entanglement with Immigration Enforcement in Georgia”. Cardozo Law Review de•novo, 2017.
• “No Papers? You Can’t Have Water: A Critique of Localities’ Denial of Utilities to Undocumented Immigrants”. Emory International Law Review, 2017 (co-authored with Kathryn Madison).
• “Indiscriminate Power: Racial Profiling and Surveillance Since 9/11”. University of Pennsylvania Journal of Law and Social Change, 2015 (co-authored with Carlos Torres and Tye Tavaras).
• Immigration and Racial Profiling. Cultural Issues in Criminal Defense. 3rd & 4th editions, August 2010 and June 2015. ISBN 978-1-57823-440-0
• “Challenging the Practice of Solitary Confinement in Immigration Detention in Georgia and Beyond”. City University of New York Law Review, 2014 (co-authored with Natasha El-Sergany).
• “Shattered Dreams: An Analysis of the Georgia Board of Regents’ Admissions Ban from a Constitutional and International Human Rights
• Perspective”. Hastings Race and Poverty Law Journal, 2013 (co-authored with Chaka Washington).
• “The legacy of US intervention and the Tunisian revolution: promises and challenges one year on”. Interface. 4 (1): 67-101, May 2012 (co-authored with Corinna Mullin).
• “Reflections on the Occasion of the Tenth Anniversary of September 11”. Race/Ethnicity: Multidisciplinary Global Contexts. 4 (3) 2011. doi:10.2979/racethmulglocon.4.3.449
• “Reflections”. Shifting Balance Sheets: Women’s Stories of Naturalized Citizenship & Cultural Attachment. July 1, 2011.
• “Known Adversary”: The Targeting of the Immigrants’ Rights Movement in the Post-Trump Era
• Complicity in Genocide—The Case Against the Biden Administration
• Israel Is a Top Student of U.S. Imperialism
• The ‘war on terror’ continues to target pro-Palestine activists
• Cop Cities in a Militarized World
• The DHS and Its Legacy of Terrorizing Immigrants
• The DOJ Is Using “Foreign Agents” Accusations to Repress Black Liberation Organizers
• Ron DeSantis’ New Target: 8-Year-Old Kids of Asian Descent
• Supporting New U.S. bases in the Philippines Isn’t an Option
• Biden Is Following Trump’s Lead on Israel-Palestine
• The Need for Accountability for Abuses in ICE Detention
• Title 42 and the fact that Biden’s alternatives are not much better
• Iran’s Brutal Crackdown on “Women, Life, Freedom”
• The Surveillance State Can’t Solve White Supremacy
• Why Human Rights Advocates Won’t Stop Fighting for Freedom in the Philippines
• The White House’s Plan to Stem Migration Protects Corporate Profits—Not People
• ICE prison in South Georgia should be shut down, not expanded
• Will the US Supreme Court make it illegal to boycott Israel?
• Sanctions on Iran as Collective Punishment
• Time to End the West’s Xenophobic Double Standard on Refugees
• The U.S. Can’t Keep Absolving Itself Over Afghanistan
• Op-Ed: End profit-driven detention in the immigration system as well as federal prisons
• Biden Must End Immigration Detainer Programs
• US Muslim ban: Biden has failed to address lasting harms
• After 20 years, it’s time to repeal the Patriot Act and begin to dismantle the surveillance state
• Survivors of Medical Abuse at ICE Jail in Georgia Are Still Waiting for Justice
• Afghanistan and Beyond: End U.S. War-Making Everywhere
• No Justice, No Freedom: Medical Abuse in Private Prisons
• Biden Must Do More Than Rejoin the Iran Nuke Deal
• War Criminals and 9/11: How We Achieve Accountability
• ICE Shut Down One Gruesome Detention Center—Then Transferred Immigrants to Another
• ICE detention has now been referred to as ‘torture’ — the US government will surely have to pay reparations
• There Are No Mass Migrations Without U.S. Meddling and Militarism
• Broader US government surveillance powers won’t make us safer
• People’s Tribunals: Holding Power to Account
• Repealing the Muslim Ban Is Not Enough. We Need Accountability
• In a Pandemic, Why are Cities Still Making it Hard for People to Get Utilities?
• Biden Must Do More Than Rejoin the Iran Nuke Deal
• The time has come for a reckoning on US immigrant abuse
• The Trump Administration Is Using an Under-the-Radar Tactic to Suppress Votes
• US foreign policy aggravates human rights abuses in the Philippines during COVID
• Destroying to Replace: Settler Colonialism from Kashmir to Palestine
• U.S. military aid to the Philippines doesn’t defend the country from invaders. It’s turned inward, against the poor, journalists, and human rights defenders
• Incarceration as a Tool of Dehumanization During the COVID Crisis
• A History of Institutional Violence at the U.S. Border
• Voting Trump Out Isn’t Enough — We Must Organize to Build a Better Future
• ‘Please Help Us’: Those on the Inside Are in Grave Danger [Op-Ed]
• To organize in times of crisis, we need to connect the dots of global resistance against Imperialism
• Trump’s Muslim ban: Iranian-Americans are treated like the enemy within
• ICE’s long campaign of silence
• Shut Down the School of the Americas/ WHINSEC
• Silence Will Not Protect Us: Immigrants Speak Boldly Despite Threats of Violence [Op-Ed]
• U.S. Police are Being Trained by Israel—And Communities of Color Are Paying the Price
• Stop US Military Aid to the Philippines
• When Undocumented Youth Are Banned From College, The Entire Nation Fails
• The people of North Carolina want to talk about their state being used for torture. Do the Democratic candidates?
• How We Beat Anti-Immigrant Fervor
• Commentary: Two years after a detainee’s suicide, conditions in Georgia’s immigrant detention centers haven’t improved
• Decolonizing Justice in Tunisia
• From Notre Dame to Flint, Our Giving Exposes Who We Are
• U.S. Out of Everywhere
• Opinion: Ga. immigration detainees suffer inhumane treatment
• Atlanta Ended Its ICE Contract. But a Nearby Facility Quietly Started Jailing Immigrants
• Opinion: Georgia denies migrants equal access to higher education
• The new Congress must reverse course on Iran
• The Philippine President Is Waging a Ruthless War on Drugs—And the U.S. Is Complicit
• Turkish Trial of Lawyers is a Mockery of Justice
• Iran is my home and the US helped destroy it. Now Trump’s war hawks want to finish the job.
• It’s Time for Atlanta to Stop Colluding With ICE [OP-ED]
• There Is a Coordinated Campaign to Suppress Criticism of Israel
• Why are for-profit US prisons subjecting detainees to forced labor?
• Historic First Meets Racist History: Republicans Campaign on Hatred in Georgia
• Do immigrants in ICE detention centers have any human rights at all?
• America Rejected A Muslim Ban. Now The Supreme Court Must As Well
• If We Want to Support Refugees, We Need To End the Wars That Create Them
• America’s Indefensible Alliance With The Philippines
• Government spying on immigrants in America is now fair game. What next?
• Act on the Cries of Detained Immigrants for Dignity and Justice
• With the Trump travel ban, Americans face an important choice
• The US role in forced migration from the Middle East
• Let’s Fund Health Care — Not Deadly Immigrant Detention Centers
• Discrimination Via Public Utility Monopoly in LaGrange
• The cruel but usual conditions inside two Georgia immigration detention centers
• Atlanta as a Sanctuary City: Holding Leaders Accountable for Violence Against Marginalized People
• Stop the Imprisonment of Palestinian Children
• How Trump Is Riding on the Shoulders of Obama’s Interventions in Central America
• The US must Stop Using Private Prisons: Donald Trump Might be a Fan of Private Prisions, but they are costly and abusive
• How the U.S. Government Has Used 9/11 to Criminalize People of Color
• An International Tribunal Declares the Impeachment of Brazil’s Dilma Rousseff an Illegitimate Coup
• Unwelcome: Federal officials and local law enforcement need to stop raids and deportations of undocumented immigrants
• An Atlanta Campaign Demands Immigration Reform, End to Policies of Deportation and Detention
• Analysis: Human Rights Treaty Provides a Tool to Fight Racial Bias
• A Review of “Guantanamo Diary”
• Israel Must End Forcefeeding of Hungerstriking Palestinian Prisoners
• Immigrants in Our Detention Center Still Suffer Human Rights Abuses