Rose Cuison Villazor

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.

Professor Villazor teaches, researchers and writes in the areas of immigration and citizenship law, property law, Asian Americans and the law, equal protection law and critical race theory.  Her published or soon-to-be-published law review articles include, “Interstitial Citizenship,” in the Fordham Law Review (2017), “The Undocumented Closet,” in the North Carolina Law Review (2013), “The Other Loving: Uncovering the Federal Regulation of Interracial Marriages,” in the New York University Law Review (2011), “Rediscovering Oyama v. California: At the Intersection of Property, Race and Citizenship,” in the Washington University Law Review (2010), and "Blood Quantum Land Laws: The Race versus Political Identity Dilemma," in the California Law Review (2008).   She has also been published in the Southern California Law Review, University of California at Davis Law Review, Southern Methodist University Law Review, Wayne State Law Review and other journals.  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.  In the fall of 2015, she will be a Visiting Professor at Columbia Law School.

She is co-editor with Gabriel “Jack” Chin of Legislating a New America, which focuses on the 50th anniversary of the 1965 Immigration Act and published by Cambridge University Press in December 2015.  She is also co-editor of a forthcoming book, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders and the Law, with Neil Gotanda and Robert Chang, which will be published by New York University Press in 2017.  In 2012, she co-edited an anthology with Kevin Maillard, “Loving v. Virginia in a Post-Racial World: Rethinking Race, Sex, and Marriage,” which was published by Cambridge University Press.