Professor Rose Cuison Villazor is Professor of Law and Martin Luther King, Jr. Hall Research Scholar at the University of California at Davis School of Law. Her current writing projects include researching the history of “non-citizen national status” and its contemporary implications on citizenship; the immigration status of guest workers in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands and whether they should be granted a path to citizenship; and the federal regulation of marriage in Germany post-World War II.
Among her many publications are numerous articles in major law reviews and journals, including the New York University Law Review, the Washington University Law Review, and the California Law Review. Villazor is also co-editing several books.
In the spring of 2014, Professor Villazor served as a Visiting Scholar at UC Berkeley School of Law’s Center for the Study of Law and Society. She received the 2011 Derrick A. Bell Award, which is given by the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) Minority Section to a junior faculty member who, through activism, mentoring, teaching and scholarship, has made an extraordinary contribution to legal education, the legal system, or social justice. She served as a Human Rights Fellow at Columbia Law School from 2004 until 2006 where she focused on the domestic application of international human rights.
Villazor obtained her LL.M. from Columbia Law School after receiving her J.D. cum laude from American University’s Washington College of Law.
2016 to 2017