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Rose Cuison Villazor
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Associate Professor of Law
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B.A., University of Texas
J.D., American University Washington College of Law LL.M., Columbia Law School |
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Biography
Professor Villazor comes to Hofstra Law from Southern Methodist University (SMU) Dedman School of Law where she taught property, immigration law and an advanced citizenship seminar. While at SMU, she organized a colloquium on law and citizenship, which she will continue at Hofstra Law beginning fall 2010. Previously, Professor Villazor served as a human rights fellow at Columbia Law School where she focused on the domestic application of international human rights.
While at American University, she served as Editor of the American University Law Review. After graduating from law school, she clerked for The Honorable Stephen H. Glickman on the District of Columbia Court of Appeals. She then received an Equal Justice Works Fellowship to work for New York Lawyers for the Public Interest from 2001 to 2004. She received an LL.M. from Columbia Law School in 2006.
Professor Villazor's scholarship focuses on property law, immigration law, race, and citizenship. Her recent articles include, "Blood Quantum Land Laws: The Race versus Political Identity Dilemma," in the California Law Review (2008), "Rediscovering Oyama v. California: The Intersection of Property, Race and Citizenship,” in the Washington University Law Review (forthcoming 2010), "Reading Between the (Blood) Lines: Political, Not Racial, Membership," in the Southern California Law Review (forthcoming 2010), and "What is a Sanctuary?," in the Southern Methodist University Law Review (2008).
She is the co-editor of and contributor to a forthcoming book titled Loving v. Virginia in a Post-Racial World: Rethinking Race, Sex, and Marriage being published by Cambridge University Press in 2010.
Professor Villazor's current research projects in the area of immigration law examine the regulation of interracial and transnational marriages through the Soldier Brides Act of 1947 and the negotiation for citizenship in the U.S. territories. Her ongoing research in property law conducts a comparative analysis of various indigenous-only land laws in the Pacific Islands.
Curriculum Vitae