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César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández
Gregory H. Williams Chair in Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, Moritz College of Law
Areas of Expertise
- the criminalization of immigration under U.S. law
- the intersection of criminal and immigration law
- migrants in the criminal justice system
- immigration imprisonment
- race-based immigration policing
Education
- Boston College Law School
- Brown University
César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández is the Gregory Williams Chair in Civil Rights and Civil Liberties at Ohio State University where he writes and teaches about the intersection of criminal and immigration law. He has published two books, Migrating to Prison: America’s Obsession with Locking Up Immigrants (2019), and Crimmigration Law (2015). A second edition of Crimmigration Law is scheduled for release in 2021. His scholarly articles about the right to counsel for migrants in the criminal justice system, immigration imprisonment, and race-based immigration policing have appeared in the California Law Review, UCLA Law Review, BYU Law Review, Maryland Law Review, and Georgetown Immigration Law Journal, among others. He also publishes the blog crimmigration.com.
César’s analyses of policies affecting migrants regularly appear in media in the United States and abroad. He has published opinion articles in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, Time, and many other venues. Through hundreds of interviews, he has lent his expert analysis to journalists in Brazil, Canada, Germany, South Africa, and the United States. He also served two terms as a member of the American Bar Association’s Commission on Immigration.