'Dr Kawar analyzes high-profile immigrant-rights cases in France and the United States, arguing persuasively that legal advocacy subtly transforms political debate, administrative practice, and cultural beliefs by assembling and publicizing meanings that become public currency. Her insightful re-framing offers a fresh and positive approach to the study of litigation's impact on public policy.' Doris Marie Provine, Professor Emerita of the School of Social Transformation, Arizona State University 'Artfully interweaving sociolegal studies and comparative law, Leila Kawar offers a novel and immensely insightful analysis of the politics of immigrant rights legal activism ... a truly important and unusually elegant work.' Mitchel Lasser, author of Judicial Transformations: The Rights Revolution in the Courts of Europe 'Leila Kawar has written a fascinating and nuanced account of the evolution of immigrants' rights mobilizations in the United States and France. However, Contesting Immigration Policy in Court is far more. A pathbreaking comparative study grounded in meticulous research, it offers rich lessons on the complex webs linking legal doctrine, lawyer advocacy, and movements for social change.' Hiroshi Motomura, Susan Westerberg Prager Professor of Law, University of California, Los Angeles and author of Immigration Outside the Law 'Leila Kawar's well researched and clearly written study convincingly demonstrates how legal rights activists generated a variety of important impacts on immigration policy-making in both France and the United States over several decades. Contesting Immigration Policy in Court is an important book for all scholars interested in legal activism, the politics of rights, and social change.' Michael McCann, Gordon Hirabayashi Professor, University of Washington, DC