Professor Hiroshi Motomura

Professor Motomura is a Kenan Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of North Carolina School of Law, and has been teaching and writing about immigration law for the last twenty years.  Considered a leader in the area of immigration, he is the author of two casebooks, Immigration and Citizenship: Process and Policy and Forced Migration: Law and Policy. He is also the author of Americans in waiting: The Lost Story of Immigration and Citizenship in the United States, which won the 2006 Professional and Scholarly Publishing Award from the Association of American Publishers.

Professor Motomura has been recognized as an outstanding teacher, including being named President’s Teaching Scholar, the highest teaching distinction at the University of Colorado, where he taught for 21 years. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Michigan, UCLA School of Law, and Hokkaido University in Sapporo, Japan. Professor Motomura was also the first Lloyd Cutler Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin, formerly served on the American Bar Association’s Commission on Immigration, and currently serves on the Board of Governors for the University of North Carolina Press.

Professor Motomura has also testified as an immigration expert before the U.S. Congress, been counsel before the Supreme Court and the federal appeals courts several times with immigration cases, and is one of the co-founders and co-directors of the Rocky Mountain Immigrant Advocacy Network, an organization which assists indigent noncitizens by giving legal orientation presentations and by recruiting and training volunteer attorneys to represent noncitizens in immigration proceedings.