أولاً†الحمد†لله†و†ثانيا†الحمد†لله†—I owe a debt of gratitude to Professor Jennifer Nou for pushing me and this piece to ask bigger questions. I would also like to thank Lauren Dunn, Dylan Salzman, Virginia Robinson, Brian Bornhoft, and the University of Chicago Law Review editors for their patience, hard work, and insights.
The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees has estimated that, by the end of June 2021, there were nearly 4.4 million pending asylum applications worldwide. Many asylum seekers suffer heinous abuses in both the countries from which they flee and the countries through which they travel to reach sanctuary.
I thank Douglas Baird, Stuart Benjamin, Elisabeth DeFontenay, Deborah DeMott, Craig Goldblatt, Melissa Jacoby, Margaret Lemos, Adam Levitin, Joshua Macey, Troy McKenzie, John Pottow, and Steven L. Schwarcz, as well as participants in two early-stage discussion groups at Duke Law School, and at the Global Bankruptcy Scholars Workshop at Brooklyn Law School, for helpful comments and feedback. I am also grateful to Wenxin Lu, Leping Sun, and Andrew O’Shaughnessy for valuable research assistance.
My thanks to William Baude, Kevin Clermont, Scott Dodson, Benjamin Eidelson, and Evan Tsen Lee, and to participants at workshops at Boston College Law School and the Seventh Annual Civil Procedure Workshop for helpful comments on earlier drafts.
