César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández, A.B., J.D.

• Boston College Law School, JD, 2007
• Brown University, AB, with Honors in American Civilization, and English, 2002

César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández holds the Gregory Williams Chair in Civil Rights and Civil Liberties. A nationally recognized legal expert, he writes and teaches about the intersection of criminal and immigration law.  

Professor García Hernández has published two books, Migrating to Prison: America’s Obsession with Locking Up Immigrants (2019), and Crimmigration Law (2015). His third book, Welcome the Wretched: In Defense of the “Criminal Alien” is scheduled for release early in 2024. His scholarly articles about the right to counsel for migrants in the criminal justice system, immigration imprisonment, and race-based immigration policing have appeared in Dædalus, the California Law Review, UCLA Law Review, BYU Law Review, and Georgetown Immigration Law Journal, among others, earning him a position among the ten most-cited immigration law scholars in the United States. 

Prior to joining the faculty at Ohio State, Professor García Hernández taught at Capital University Law School and the University of Denver Law School. He is a past Fulbright Scholar and has been a scholar-in-residence at the University of California, Berkeley and Texas Southern University. In 2020, he delivered the Buck Colbert Franklin Memorial Civil Rights Lecture at the University of Tulsa. 

Professor García Hernández has published opinion articles in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, Time, and many other venues. He also served two terms as a member of the American Bar Association’s Commission on Immigration.