Kif Augustine-Adams
Associate Dean and Charles E. Jones Professor of Law

436 JRCB
(801) 422-3712
adamsk@lawgate.byu.edu

Education

BA 1988 (magna cum laude and University Honors), Brigham Young University; JD 1992 (magna cum laude), Harvard University. University Honors: managing editor, Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy.

Law Practice

Covington & Burling, Washington, D.C., 1992-95.

Principal Research Interests

Citizenship and immigration, gender issues. Joined J. Reuben Clark Law School in 1995.

Classes Taught

Public International Law, Torts, Social Policy & Feminist Legal Thought

Representative Publications:

Law Reviews and Peer-reviewed Journals

Constructing Mexico: Marriage, Law and Women’s Dependent Citizenship in the Late-Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries, 18(1) Gender & History ___ (forthcoming 2006)

El construir a la nación mexicana: Matrimonio, derecho, y la nacionalidad dependiente de la mujer casada en las postrimerías del siglo XIX y comienzos del siglo XX in Orden social e identidad de género. México siglos XIX y XX ___ (María Teresa Fernández Aceves, Carmen Ramos Escandón and Susie Porter eds., forthcoming December 2006)

Ella consiente implícitamente: La ciudadanía de las mujeres, el matrimonio y la teoría política liberal en Argentina a finales del siglo XIX y comienzos del XX, 11 Mora (Revista del Instituto Interdisciplinario de Estudios de Género, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Buenos Aires) 81 (Diciembre 2005). English language version published in 2002.

The Plenary Power Doctrine after September 11, 38 UC-Davis Law Review 701 (2005)

'With notice of the consequences': Liberal Political Theory, Marriage, and Women's Citizenship in the United States, 6:2 CITIZENSHIP STUDIES 5 (2002)

"She consents implicitly": Women's Citizenship, Marriage, and Liberal Political Theory in Late Nineteenth and Early-Twentieth Century Argentina, 13:4 Journal of Women's History 8 (2002). Spanish language version published in 2005.

Foundations of the family in old and new religious traditions: the Mormon experience/Fondamenti della famiglia tra antiche e nuove tradizioni religiose: l'esperienza mormone, 2 DAIMON: Annuario di diritto comparato delle religioni 71 (2002)

Pen or Printer: Law School Exams and Computer Technology, 51 Journal of Legal Education 118 (2001) (with James R. Rasband and Suzanne B. Hendrix)

Gendered States: Comparative Constructions of Citizenship and Nation, 41 Virginia Journal of International Law 93 (2000)

Marriage as Exile: Citizenship Laws and Women's Exclusion/El Matrimonio Como Exilio: Las Leyes de Ciudadanía y Exclusión Femenina in Exilios Femeninos 71 (Pilar Cuder-Dominguez, ed. 2000) (in Spanish)

Defamed Women: Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum, 22 Harvard Women´s Law Journal 207 (1999)

The Web of Membership: The Consonance and Conflict of Being Both Mormon and American, 13 Journal of Law and Religion 567 (1998/1999)

The Beginning of Wisdom is to Call Things by Their Right Names, 7 Southern California Review of Law & Women's Studies 1 (1997)

What is Just: The Rule of Law and Natural Law in the Trials of Former East German Border Guards, 29 Stanford Journal of International Law 272 (1993)

Foreigners, Foreign Property and the Fourth Amendment: United States v. Verdugo-Urquidez, 110 S. Ct. 1056, 13 Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy 1037 (1990

Book Reviews and Other Publications

Book Review, Mexican Law by Stephen Zamora, José Ramón Cossío, Leonel Pereznieto, José Roldán-Xopa, and David Lopez , 16(3) The Law and Politics Book Review 250-52 (2006)

Book Review, Honor, Status, and Law in Modern Latin America by Sueann Caulfield, Sarah C. Chambers, & Lara Putnam (eds.), 15(10) The Law and Politics Book Review 925 (2005)

Considering the Rule of Law: A Step Back from Threats and Dangers, 15(3) Experience (American Bar Association magazine) 14 (2005)

Book Review, Judging the Past in Unified Germany by A. James McAdams, 28(1) German Studies Review 2 (2005)

Book Review, Truth, Autonomy, and Speech: Feminist Theory and the First Amendment by Susan H. Williams, 14(9) The Law and Politics Book Review 732 (2004)

Gendered States: A Comparative Construction of Citizenship and Nation excerpt reprinted in Mixed Race America and the Law 424 (Kevin Johnson, ed. 2002)

Book Review: The Language of Names by Justin Kaplan and Anne Bernays, 79 Onomastica Canadiana 113 (1997)