Kenan Distinguished Professor of Law
Education
- J.D., University of California at Berkeley (1978)
- B.A., Yale University (1974)
Hiroshi Motomura is an influential scholar and teacher of immigration and citizenship law. He is a co-author of the widely used law school casebook, Immigration and Citizenship: Process and Policy (6th edition published in January 2008), and a new casebook, Forced Migration: Law and Policy, published in 2007. His book, Americans in Waiting: The Lost Story of Immigration and Citizenship in the United States, which was published in 2006 by Oxford University Press, won the 2006 Professional and Scholarly Publishing Award from the Association of American Publishers in the Law and Legal Studies category. In addition, Motomura has published many articles and essays on immigration and citizenship, including some of the most widely cited in the field. He has testified as an immigration expert in the U.S. Congress, has served as co-counsel or a volunteer consultant in several cases in the U.S. Supreme Court and the federal appeals courts, and is also one of the co-founders of the Rocky Mountain Immigrant Advocacy Network (RMIAN). Motomura was the first Lloyd Cutler Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin, has been a member of the American Bar Association's Commission on Immigration, and currently serves on the Board of Governors of the University of North Carolina Press. He has been a visiting professor at Hokkaido University in Sapporo, Japan, at the University of Michigan Law School, and at the UCLA School of Law. In 1997, Motomura was named President's Teaching Scholar, which is the highest teaching distinction at the University of Colorado, where he taught for 21 years, and he has won several other teaching awards, most recently the UNC-Chapel Hill Distinguished Teaching Award for Post-Baccalaureate Instruction in 2008.
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Areas of Expertise
- Asylum
- Immigration and Citizenship
- National Security - Immigration-Related Issues
- Refugees
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