Professor Hiroshi Motomura, the Susan Westerberg Prager professor of Law, has been selected to receive UCLA’s Distinguished Teaching Award. The award represents the highest attainment of academic and professional excellence at UCLA and honors individuals who bring respect and admiration to the scholarship of teaching. Only six such awards are made each year.
Motomura is an influential scholar and teacher of immigration and citizenship law. He is a co-author of two immigration-related casebooks, and he has published many significant articles and essays on immigration and citizenship. His 2006 book, "Americans in Waiting: The Lost Story of Immigration and Citizenship in the United States" won the Professional and Scholarly Publishing Award from the Association of American Publishers as the year’s best book in Law and Legal Studies and was chosen by the U.S. Department of State for its Suggested Reading List for Foreign Service Officers. A companion volume, "Immigration Outside the Law" is forthcoming from Oxford University Press in 2014.
Motomura is an influential scholar and teacher of immigration and citizenship law. He is a co-author of two immigration-related casebooks, and he has published many significant articles and essays on immigration and citizenship. His 2006 book, "Americans in Waiting: The Lost Story of Immigration and Citizenship in the United States" won the Professional and Scholarly Publishing Award from the Association of American Publishers as the year’s best book in Law and Legal Studies and was chosen by the U.S. Department of State for its Suggested Reading List for Foreign Service Officers. A companion volume, "Immigration Outside the Law" is forthcoming from Oxford University Press in 2014.
