Seyla Benhabib (Columbia Law School) and Ayelet Shachar (University of Berkeley, Law School) discuss their book Lawless Zones, Rightless Subjects: Migration, Asylum and Shifting Borders

Responding to ever-increasing pressures of migration, states, supranational, and subnational actors deploy complex moves and maneuvers to reconfigure borders, rights, and territory, giving rise to a changing legal cartography of international relations and international law. The purpose of this volume is to study this new reconfiguration of rights, territoriality, and jurisdiction, employing legal, historical, philosophical, critical, and postcolonial perspectives.
With the participation of Gillian Lester (Professor of Law and Former Dean of Columbia Law School), Susanna Mancini (Professor of Law, University of Bologna), Michael Doyle (University Professor, Columbia University), Ayten Gündogdu (Associate Professor, Barnard College) and Frédéric Mégret (Hans & Tamar Oppenheimer Chair in Public International Law, McGill University, James S. Carpentier Visiting Professor, Columbia Law School)