Philip Kretsedemas Publishes An Original Study on Asylum Law in Laws Journal
Massachusetts, US, 15th May 2025, ZEX PR WIRE, Scholar and policy analyst Philip Kretsedemas has published a landmark peer-reviewed article titled Explaining Asylum Law Using Qualitative Comparative Analysis in the internationally recognized journal Laws (Volume 13, Issue 4). The article explores the complex interplay between jurisprudence and politics in U.S. asylum decisions, using an innovative application of Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) to examine how appellate courts rule on asylum cases involving kinship-based claims.
Kretsedemas’ research marks a major contribution to legal studies by spotlighting the underappreciated role of jurisprudential reasoning—especially the “nexus” requirement—in asylum case outcomes. In contrast to previous work that emphasized political partis...