César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández

César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández is an American scholar of migration studies and Gregory Williams Chair in Civil Rights and Civil Liberties at The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law. He supports abolishing immigration detention in the United States. Hernández is one of the ten most-cited immigration law scholars in the United States.

In 2020, Hernández delivered the Buck Colbert Franklin Memorial Civil Rights Lecture at the University of Tulsa, named for the African-American lawyer who devoted countless hours to assisting victims of the Tulsa Race Riots. In 2019, the Civil Rights Education and Enforcement Center honored him with its Challenging Discrimination Award. Hernández is a past Fulbright Scholar, where he conducted a comparative study of immigration imprisonment in Slovenia and the United States and has been a scholar-in-residence at the University of California, Berkeley and Texas Southern University. Hernández is also a past recipient of the Derrick A. Bell, Jr. Award by the Association of American Law Schools Section on Minority Groups, an honor issued to a “junior faculty member who, through activism, mentoring, colleagueship, teaching and scholarship, has made an extraordinary contribution to legal education, the legal system or social justice.” Hernández has served two terms on the American Bar Association Commission on Immigration.

Hernández graduated from Brown University with a Bachelors of Arts with Honors in American Civilization and English in 2002 and Boston College Law School with a Juris Doctor in 2007. As a law student Hernández was a law review editor for the Third World Law Journal.