Hiroshi Motomura

Hiroshi Motomura, the Susan Westerberg Prager Distinguished professor of law and faculty co-director of the Miñana Family Center for Immigration Law and Policy at the UCLA School of Law, is an expert in immigration and citizenship law. He has written extensively on the subject, served as co-counsel on cases before the U.S. Supreme Court and testified before Congress. 

He is the author of "Borders and Belonging: Toward a Fair Immigration Policy" (2025), for which he received a Guggenheim Fellowship, "Immigration Outside the Law" (2014), "Americans in Waiting" (2006), and he is the co-author of "Immigration and Citizenship: Process and Policy" (West 9th ed. 2021). He has received several university teaching awards and is one of 26 U.S. law professors profiled in What the Best Law Teachers Do (Harvard 2013). A recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship in 2018, he was also named part of the 2026 Class of Great Immigrants, Great Americans by the Andrew Carnegie Foundation.