CHRISTOPHER D BOOM, ESQ
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​Publications & Presentations

Alongside my practice, I also enjoy publishing and presenting scholarly research. In addition to immigration law, my main research interests are in human rights, the rule of law, and general jurisprudence. You can find a list of my publications and presentations below.

Publications

  • Beyond Persecution: A Moral Defence of Expanding Refugee Status
    30 INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF REFUGEE LAW 512 (2018)
  • The Importance of the Thin Conception of the Rule of Law for International Development: ​A Decision-Theoretic Account
    8 LAW AND DEVELOPMENT REVIEW 293 (2015)
  • Reflections on the Rule of Law After NFIB v. Sebelius
    In THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT DECISION: PHILOSOPHICAL AND LEGAL IMPLICATIONS (F. Allhoff and M. Hall eds. 2014)​​

Presentations

  • ​Hayek on the Ethical and Economic Importance of the Rule of Law: Answering the Razian Challenge
    ​​ 2018 Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Society Annual Meeting​​
  • Plenary Power's Chilling Effect: Why Religious Liberty Requires Judicial Review of the Trump Travel Ban​​
    2018 Southern Political Science Association Annual Meeting​
  • Justice, Coordination, and Legal Certainty: A Rawlsian Functionalist Defense of the Rule of Law
    (co-presented with Chad Van Schoelandt, Tulane University)

    2017 Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Society Annual Meeting 
  • Respecting Human Rights: The Primacy of Non-Interference
    2016 Cambridge Doctoral Workshop in Legal Theory
  • Comparative Constitutional Law in Dworkinian Jurisprudence
    2016 Juris Diversitas Annual Conference
  • Beyond Persecution: In Defense of Expanding Refugee Status
    2016 London School of Economics Graduate Conference in Political Theory
  • Insecure Expectations, Unfree Exercises
    2016 Institute for Humane Studies Graduate Research Colloquium
  • Legal Responsibility and the Substantive Demands of the Rule of Law
    2015 Louisiana State University Graduate Philosophy Conference
  • The Importance of the Thin Conception of the Rule of Law for International Development:
    ​A Decision-Theoretic Account
    2015 Law and Development Conference 
  • Balancing Rights Through Biological Measures of Mental Health
    (co-presented with Leslie Kelley, LSU Health Sciences Center)
     2014 University of Memphis Philosophy Graduate Student Association Conference 
  • Law, Morality, and Method: Lon Fuller as Methodological Naturalist
    ​2013 Ontario Legal Philosophy Partnership Graduate Conference for Legal Theory
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