César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández

César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández is an American scholar of migration studies and Gregory Williams Chair in Civil Rights and Civil Liberties at The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law. He supports abolishing immigration detention in the United States. García Hernández is one of the ten most-cited immigration law scholars in the United States. and has been a scholar-in-residence at the University of California, Berkeley and Texas Southern University. García Hernández is also a past recipient of the Derrick A. Bell, Jr. Award by the Association of American Law Schools Section on Minority Groups, an honor issued to a “junior faculty member who, through activism, mentoring, colleagueship, teaching and scholarship, has made an extraordinary contribution to legal education, the legal system or social justice.” García Hernández has served two terms on the American Bar Association Commission on Immigration.

García Hernández graduated from Brown University with a Bachelors of Arts with Honors in American Civilization and English in 2002 and Boston College Law School with a Juris Doctor in 2007. As a law student García Hernández was a law review editor for the Third World Law Journal.

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