Carrie Rosenbaum

Professor Rosenbaum's research focuses on the intersections of criminal and immigration law through a critical legal and critical race studies lens. Professor Rosenbaum has taught legal writing and doctrinal courses, including a seminar on immigration law and anti-discrimination, as well as first-year law school courses. 

Her legal scholarship has appeared in numerous journals including the Yale Journal on Regulation, the Pennsylvania Regulatory Review, the Denver Law Review, the Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law, and Berkeley La Raza Law Journal. She speaks at symposia and on panels about immigration and race and criminalization of migration and has been interviewed by news outlets concerning immigration law enforcement and judicial opinions. Professor Rosenbaum produces public scholarship providing commentary on immigration law and policy featured by the ImmigrationLawProf blog, the Sacramento Bee, Slate, Newsweek, Bloomberg, and other venues. She has authored and edited practice-oriented materials for nonprofit organizations and legal publisher LexisNexis. 

Professor Rosenbaum’s decades-long legal career has focused on lawyering in the public interest. She has represented people from all over the world with ordinary and extraordinary legal problems in immigration court, at the Board of Immigration Appeals, circuit courts of appeal and district courts.

• Immigration law
• Critical theory
• Criminality and the Constitution
• Social justice and the law
• Critical race studies

• Immigration law
• Constitutional law
• Critical legal theory
• Criminalization of migration
• Immigration law and race

• Co-Chair, Law and Society Association Immigration Section CRN02 (since 2024)
• Co-Chair, University Assessments/Outcomes Committee (2023-2024)
• Director, UC Berkeley School of Law, Center on Comparative Equality & Anti-Discrimination Law, Immigrant Justice and Climate Refugees Working Group (2020-2023)
• Faculty Advisor, National Lawyers Guild (2023-2024)
• Faculty Advisor, Immigration Law Society (2023-2024)
• Faculty Advisor, Public Interest Law Foundation (2023-2024)
• LexisNexis Bender’s Immigration Bulletin (Editorial Board Member, since 2019)

• UC Davis, JD, 2002
• UC Santa Barbara, BA in Film Studies, French and Political Science, 1996

• Senior Fellow, Santa Clara University School of Law (2024-2025)
• Assistant Professor, Chapman University School of Law (2022-2024)
• Lecturer, UC Berkeley Department of Legal Studies (2018-2021)
• Professor of Legal Writing UC Berkeley School of Law (2021)
• Visiting Scholar, UC Berkeley School of Law Center for the Study of Law & Society (2019-2021)
• Lecturer, UC Law San Francisco (formerly UC Hastings), (2021)

• Colorblind Immigration Law, UCLA Law Review Discourse, invited author (forthcoming July 2025). 
• Arbitrary Arbitrariness Review, 100 DENV. L. REV. 775 (2023) (selected for the 2023 AALS New Voices Programs – Administrative Law and Immigration Law).
• Priorities and the State of Implicit Bias in Crimmigration, The Regulatory Review, A Publication of the Penn Program on Regulation (2022).
• Systemic Racism and Immigrant Detention, 44 SEATTLE U. L. REV. 1125 (2021).
• UnEqual Protection in Immigration Law, 50 SW. L. REV. 232 (2021).
• Unequal Protection in Immigration Law, Yale Notice & Comment, Symposium on Racism in Administrative Law, July 2020.
• Bringing Democratic Rule of Law to Immigration, 97 DENVER L. REV. 797 (2020).