John Hoeffner is an attorney and former editor of the Catholic Lawyer. He taught appellate advocacy at Georgetown University Law Center, where he was a teaching fellow and received an LL.M. in Advocacy, and practiced law at several leading firms. He also prosecuted civil rights cases while working at the Department of Justice. His recent publications have appeared in the Journal of Catholic Social Thought, Georgetown Immigrant Law Journal, and the Mediterranean Journal of Human Rights.
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- Rules Are Made To Be Broken: How the Process of Expedited Removal Fails Asylum Seekers (with John Hoeffner), 20 Geo. Immigr. L.J. 167 (2006)
- The Devil in the Details: How Specific Should Catholic Social Teaching Be?, 2 J. Catholic Social Thought 507 (2004)
- The New Asylum Rule: Improved but Still Unfair, 16 Geo. Immigr. L.J. 1 (2001)
- Assessing the Proposed Refugee Protection Act: One Step in the Right Direction, 14 Geo. Immigr. L.J. 815 (2000)
- Justice Delayed is Justice Denied: A Proposal for Ending the Unnecessary Detention of Asylum Seekers, 12 Harv. Hum. Rts. J. 197 (1999)
- New Asylum Laws: Undermining an American Ideal, CATO Institute, Policy Analysis No. 299 (1998), reprinted in 3 Bender’s Immigration Bulletin 496 (1998)
- Revisiting APSO: Improving the System for Releasing Genuine Asylum Seekers from Detention, Refugee Reports, August 30, 1996, at 11
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