Adjunct Professor Carrie Rosenbaum is an immigration attorney in private practice,
a law professor, and a scholar. Professor Rosenbaum speaks and publishes on immigration
law at the intersections of criminal, employment and constitutional law.
Professor Rosenbaum has received many pro bono awards and she has served on the Executive
Board of the Bay Area National Lawyer's Guild, as Co-Chair of the Bay Area National
Lawyer's Guild Immigration Committee. She has also held leadership roles in the American
Immigration Lawyer's Association Northern California chapter. In addition to engaging
in direct representation at the immigration court, Board of Immigration Appeals, circuit
and district courts, Professor Rosenbaum regularly serves as a consultant to lawyers
engaging in complex immigration litigation involving issues such as immigration consequences
of criminal convictions, terrorism bar and persecution of others accusations, and
political asylum matters. LexisNexis publishes her work and has recognized her as
an "Expert Commentator."
Professor Rosenbaum received a J.D. from the University of California King Hall School
of Law, at Davis, and she was awarded an undergraduate degree with high honors in
Film Studies, Political Science and French, from the University of California, Santa
Barbara.
Professor Rosenbaum's scholarship currently focuses on immigrant integration, the
constitutionality of sub-federal immigration laws, racial bias in policing, and the
repercussions of the war on drugs for immigrants and immigration law.