Sarah R. Sherman-Stokes
Clinical Associate Professor of Law
Associate Director, Immigrants’ Rights and Human Trafficking Clinic
BA, cum laude, Bates College
JD, cum laude, Boston College Law School
Biography
Sarah Sherman-Stokes is a clinical associate professor at Boston University School of Law. Ms. Sherman-Stokes teaches Immigration Law and is the associate director of the Immigrants’ Rights & Human Trafficking Clinic. Her scholarship takes a critical look at immigration law and policy, including at the intersections of asylum law, detention and deportation, and immigrant surveillance, enforcement and abolition. Her recent law review articles have been published in the Denver Law Review, Hastings Law Journal, Georgetown Immigration Law Journal, Villanova Law Review and the Indiana Law Review. She regularly speaks and appears in the media on issues including asylum, detention and deportation. She has published op-eds in The Washington Post, USA Today, Cognoscenti, Bloomberg Law and The Hill.
In 2021, Professor Sherman-Stokes was part of a team of lawyers and law school clinics awarded the Clinical Legal Education Association (CLEA) award for Excellence in a Public Interest Project, for their work in a federal class action on behalf of 12 women subjected to non-consensual medical procedures in ICE custody at the Irwin County Detention Center. In 2020, Professor Sherman-Stokes was awarded the Metcalf Cup and Prize for Excellence in Teaching, the highest teaching honor awarded by Boston University.
Professor Sherman-Stokes received her B.A. cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa from Bates College and her J.D. cum laude from Boston College Law School. Previously, she was an Equal Justice Works Fellow at the Political Asylum/Immigration Representation (PAIR) Project where she represented noncitizens in removal proceedings, with a special focus on the representation of detained immigrants with mental illness.
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- Immigration Law & Policy
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Publications
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Sarah R. Sherman-Stokes, Public Health and the Power to Exclude: Immigrant Expulsions at the Border 36 Georgetown Immigration Law Journal (2021)
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Sarah R. Sherman-Stokes, Third Country Deportation 53 Indiana Law Review (2020)
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Sarah R. Sherman-Stokes, Laila Hlass, Priya Baskaran & Allison Korn, Experiential Learning through Popular Multimedia, in The Media Method: Teaching Law with Popular Culture (Christine A. Corcos,2019)
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Sarah R. Sherman-Stokes, Reparations for Central American Refugees 96 Denver Law Review (2019)
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Sarah R. Sherman-Stokes, No Restoration, No Rehabilitation: Shadow Detention of Mentally Incompetent Noncitizens 62 Villanova Law Review (2017)
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Sarah R. Sherman-Stokes, Sufficiently Safeguarded?: Competency Evaluations of Mentally Ill Respondents in Removal Proceedings 67 Hastings Law Journal (2016)
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In the Media
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Boston Globe April 22, 2024
‘Really Meaningful’: Some Migrants Flown to Martha’s Vineyard by DeSantis Now on Path to Legal Status
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Tampa Bay Times April 6, 2024
Trump Said Biden Has an ‘Immunity from Deportation’ Policy | Fact Check
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PolitiFact March 9, 2024
Donald Trump Is Wrong. Joe Biden Doesn’t Have an ‘Immunity from Deportation’ Policy
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Scripps News March 5, 2024
How Is Immigration Driving Voters on Super Tuesday?
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ASIS International March 1, 2024
Data Commissioner Rules UK’s GPS Monitoring of Migrants is Illegal
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NBC Boston February 27, 2024
New Immigration Court in Chelmsford Aims to Ease Mass. Case Backlog
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Boston Globe February 25, 2024
A New Immigration Court Is Set to Open in Mass. Will It Help the Immense Backlog of Cases?
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The Brink January 26, 2024
Digital Cages: How ICE Uses Digital Surveillance to Track Migrants
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BU Today November 28, 2023
POV: What’s Next for Massachusetts’ Right to Shelter Law?
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Bloomberg Law November 16, 2023
US Border Agency’s Data Broker Deal Masks Spy Tools, Critics Say
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Berkshire Eagle November 9, 2023
Massachusetts Faces a Migrant Crisis and a Labor Shortage – Lawmakers Are Working to See If There’s a Creative Solution to Both
Sarah Sherman-Stokes and Keith Hylton are quoted.
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WCVB October 15, 2023
Cityline: Mass Migrant Crisis
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Boston Globe June 23, 2023
Titan Rescue Efforts Raise Questions about Whether Migrants Lives Are Also Worth Saving
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The Guardian May 26, 2023
Revealed: The Contentious Tool US Immigration Uses to Get Your Data from Tech Firms
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WBUR May 9, 2023
Being ‘Anti-immigrant’ Is Not a Winning Strategy for Biden in 2024
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