Disability Law United is honored to announce César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández as the winner of this year’s Challenging Discrimination Award for his dedicated and distinguished service to the immigration law and policy community and to the broader civil rights community in Denver and nationally.
A tenured associate professor of law at the University of Denver, César is a leading scholar in crimmigration law, defined as the intersection of criminal law and immigration law. Widely published in academic journals and popular media outlets, César’s second book, Migrating to Prison: America’s Obsession With Locking Up Immigr
ants, will be released in December by the social justice publisher The New Press. His seminal book Crimmigration Law (American Bar Association Publishing 2015) has become required reading for anyone pursuing work in the field.
In addition to providing tools for immigration and civil rights attorneys to better represent their clients in the fight for systemic change, César generously and effectively shares his expertise with the general public, thereby magnifying his opportunities to create change in our world. César is a frequent contributor to national and international media outlets such as the BBC, NPR, The New York Times, The Guardian, Newsweek, and La Opinión through op-eds and interviews. He also writes a popular blog and has a large Twitter following.
César’s academic and professional accolades are many and include being awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to Slovenia, being appointed as a Visiting Scholar at UC Berkeley School of Law’s Henderson Center for Social Justice, and receiving the Derrick Bell Award from the American Association of Law Schools Section on Minority Groups. César is a member of the American Bar Association Commission on Immigration. Soon César will be able to add the 2019 Disability Law United Challenging Discrimination Award to his list!
Intellectual, activist, teacher, and public commentator, César is a passionate and effective fighter for the rights of individuals and groups and his work creates change well beyond his immediate sphere of influence. We hope that you’ll be able to join us at the History Colorado Center on September 19, 2019 at our Annual Event to honor César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández and to hear more about what he’s done, the change he fuels, and what he plans to do next.
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Learn more about César and his work here and check out his blog crimmigration.com.
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