Linus Chan
Clinical law professor and director of a detainee rights clinic who represents people detained by ICE and provides expertise on habeas corpus, detention practices, and immigration litigation.
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Feb 14, 2026 • 1h 20min
The Concentration Camp Next Door
Andrea Pitzer, journalist and author who studies concentration camps, warns about the ‘warehousification’ of detention. Linus Chan, clinical law professor who represents people held by ICE, explains how habeas has been hollowed out. They discuss sprawling warehouse detention, legal mechanisms enabling mass imprisonment, and grassroots tactics to resist and delay these projects.
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Feb 14, 2026 • 1h 20min
Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts - The Concentration Camp Next Door
Andrea Pitzer, journalist and historian of concentration camps, and Linus Chan, law professor and detainee-rights attorney, join to unpack mass detention. They discuss the warehouse conversion of facilities, legal tweaks that hollow habeas corpus, rapid transfers that hide detainees, and local tactics to block and document expanding detention networks.
Jan 29, 2026 • 1h 29min
Second Missouri Compromise (Entry 1122.MA0624)
Linus Chan, Minneapolis-based immigration lawyer and law professor who runs a legal clinic for people detained by ICE. He traces the constitutional history of citizenship, retells the Missouri Compromise story and its 36°30' line, and debates how compromises shaped rights, travel, and later crises in American law.
