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PLEASE NOTE NEW LOCATION - 300 WALLACE HALL. LAPA Hot-Off-The-Press (Law-Related) Book Talk SeriesDiscussion of Professor Irwin Stotzky's recently-published "Send Them Back."RSVP required - https://lapa.princeton.edu/content/send-them-backLunch is available at noon.From Carolina Academic Press: Send Them Back tells part of the story of a remarkable attempt, which spanned four decades, to bring the rule of law to refugees from the troubled nation of Haiti. It discusses several of the cases that civil rights lawyers, working directly with Haitians and other activists, filed and litigated for Haitian refugees, and the legal, social, and political aspects of such litigation. The litigation fostered structural legal changes, policies meant to cure the inequities in the treatment of refugees, and a determined political opposition to unfair and illegal immigration decisions.Irwin P. Stotzky is Professor of Law at the University of Miami School of Law. He is the founder and served as Director for many years of the former University of Miami Center for the Study of Human Rights. He received his J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School, has been a Visiting Scholar at the Yale Law School, and a Fulbright Scholar in Argentina. For the past four decades, he has represented Haitian and other refugees on constitutional and human rights issues in many cases, including several cases in the United States Supreme Court. He has served as an adviser to the Alfonsin regime in Argentina on what steps to take, including human rights trials, against those who committed massive human rights abuses during the so-called  “dirty war." He served as an attorney and adviser to Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, and as an adviser to President Rene Preval’s administration. His books include The Theory and Craft of American Law: Elements (with Soia Mentschikoft) (1981 ), Transition to Democracy in Latin America: The Role of the Judiciary ( 1993 ), Silencing the Guns in Haiti: The Promise of Deliberative Democracy ( 1997), and Law as Justice: The Moral Imperative of Owen Fiss’s Scholarship (2009). He is also one of the founders and a member of the Board of Directors of the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti.Presented by the Program in Law and Public Affairs, cosponsored with the Program in American Studies