Rose Cuison-Villazor

Rose Cuison-Villazor is Professor of Law and Chancellor’s Social Justice Scholar at Rutgers Law School where she previously served as Interim Co-Dean (2021-2023) and Vice Dean (2019-2021). Professor Cuison-Villazor is also Director of the Center for Immigrant Justice, which conducts publicly engaged research and policy work on progressive immigration and citizenship laws. She is an elected member of the American Law Institute.

Her overall research agenda examines the extent to which laws, policies, and norms include and exclude individuals and groups from membership. She teaches and writes in the areas of immigration and citizenship law, property law, and race and the law.

Professor Cuison-Villazor’s scholarship has appeared in top law journals in the country, including California Law Review, Columbia Law Review, Harvard Law Review Forum, Michigan Law Review, and New York University Law Review. She is working on a monograph, Forbidden Love: Race, Citizenship, and the American Family (NYU Press, forthcoming 2027), and a co-authored book, AsianCrit at the Intersection (University of California Press, forthcoming 2027) (with Bob Chang).

She is also co-author and co-editor of two edited volumes, Legislating a New America: The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 and Its Contributions to Law and Society (with Gabriel “Jack” Chin) (Cambridge University Press 2015), and Loving v. Virginia in a “Post-Racial” World: Rethinking Race, Sex and Marriage (with Kevin Maillard) (Cambridge University Press 2012).

In addition, she is co-author of three casebooks, including Immigration and Citizenship, Process and Policy (10th Ed.) (with T. Alexander Aleinikoff, David A. Martin, Hiroshi Motomura, Maryellen Fullerton, Juliet Stumpf, and Pratheepan Gulasekaram) (forthcoming 2026); Integrating Spaces: Property, race, and Identity (with Al Brophy and Kali Murray) (2023); and Race and Races, Cases and Resources for a Diverse America (4th Ed.) (with Juan Perea, Richard Delgado, and Osamudia James) (2022).

Prior to joining the Rutgers Law School faculty, Professor Cuison-Villazor served on the faculty at the University of California Davis School of Law, Hofstra Law School, and Southern Methodist University School of Law. She has served as a Visiting Professor of Law at Columbia Law School, Fellow in Residence at NYU School of Law’s Birnbaum Women Leadership Center, and Visiting Scholar at the University of California Berkeley School of Law Center for Law.

Professor Cuison-Villazor obtained her LL.M from Columbia Law School and J.D. from American University, Washington College of Law.