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Emily Ryo

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Charles L. B. Lowndes Distinguished Professor of Law
School of Law
ryo@law.duke.edu
Duke Law School 210 Science Dr, Box 90362, Durham, NC 27708
Duke Law School 210 Science Dr, Box 90362, Durham, NC 27708
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Scholarly Works - Journal articles

Hard and soft power in immigration enforcement.

Journal article Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · May 2026 Full text Cite

Representation in Removal Proceedings

Journal article Indiana Law Journal · 2026 Cite

Weaponizing Immigration Detention

Journal article Iowa Law Review · 2026 Cite

Racial Disparities in Crime-Based Removal Proceedings

Journal article Minnesota Law Review · 2025 Link to item Cite

Intergroup Boundaries and Removal Decisions

Journal article Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization · 2025 Link to item Cite

Criminalization of Immigration

Journal article RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences · 2025 Link to item Cite

Racial Disparities in Crime-Based Removal Proceedings

Journal article Minnesota Law Review · January 1, 2025 Whether and to what extent racial minorities experience harsher treatment or face worse outcomes in court are questions of fundamental importance for any justice system. Questions of racial inequality are especially salient in the context of removal procee ... Cite

Immigration Detention as a Shadow Carceral System

Journal article Theoretical Criminology · 2024 Link to item Cite

Citizenship Disparities

Journal article Minnesota Law Review · January 1, 2023 Cite

The importance of race, gender, and religion in naturalization adjudication in the United States.

Journal article Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · March 2022 This study presents an empirical investigation of naturalization adjudication in the United States using new administrative data on naturalization applications decided by the US Citizenship and Immigration Services between October 2014 and March 2018. We f ... Full text Cite

Citizenship Disparities

Journal article Minnesota Law Review · 2022 Link to item Cite

A Study of Pandemic and Stigma Effects in Removal Proceedings

Journal article Journal of Empirical Legal Studies · 2022 Link to item Cite

The unintended consequences of US immigration enforcement policies.

Journal article Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · May 2021 US immigration enforcement policy seeks to change the behaviors and views of not only individuals in the United States but also those of prospective migrants outside the United States. Yet we still know relatively little about the behavioral and attitudina ... Full text Cite

The Unintended Consequences of U.S. Immigration Enforcement Policies

Journal article Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2021 Link to item Cite

Detention as Deterrence

Journal article Stanford Law Review Online · 2019 Link to item Cite

Understanding Immigration Detention: Causes, Conditions, and Consequences

Journal article Annual Review of Law and Social Science · 2019 Link to item Cite

Predicting Danger in Immigration Courts

Journal article Law & Social Inquiry · 2019 Link to item Cite

A National Study of Immigration Detention in the United States

Journal article Southern California Law Review · 2018 Link to item Cite

Fostering Legal Cynicism Through Immigration Detention

Journal article Southern California Law Review · 2017 Link to item Cite

On Normative Effects of Immigration Law

Journal article Stanford Journal of Civil Rights & Civil Liberties · 2017 Link to item Cite

Legal Attitudes of Immigrant Detainees

Journal article Law & Society Review · 2017 Link to item Cite

Detained: A Study of Immigration Bond Hearings

Journal article Law & Society Review · 2016 Link to item Cite

Moral Judgments, Expressive Functions, and Bias in Immigration Law

Journal article Immigration and Nationality Law Review · 2014 Link to item Cite

Book Review

Journal article Law, Culture and the Humanities · 2006 Link to item Cite