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 behalf of noncitizens and their families.

Professor Cuison-Villazor’s overall research agenda examines laws, policies, and norms that determine membership and belonging. She teaches and writes in the areas of immigration and citizenship law, property law, critical race theory, Asian Americans and the law, and U.S. territorial 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: How Immigration Laws Barred Interracial Marriages (NYU Press, forthcoming 2026). 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 N 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 (4 th Ed.) (with Juan Perea, Richard Delgado, and Osamudia James) (2022).

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