David Hausman is an Assistant Professor at Berkeley Law School. He does empirical work on U.S. immigration enforcement, mostly using government data disclosed in response to Freedom of Information Act requests. He also directs the Deportation Data Project. Before joining Berkeley, he practiced law at the ACLU Immigrants’ Rights Project in New York City.
For more information, visit Hausman’s personal website.
Education
Ph.D. in Political Science, Stanford University (2020)
J.D., Stanford University (2015)
David Hausman is teaching the following course in Spring 2025:
• 288.1 sec. 001 - Immigration Law
Courses During Other Semesters
| Semester | Course Num | Course Title |  Teaching Evaluations | Fall 2025 | 200F sec. 003 | Civil Procedure | 216 sec. 001 | Law, Economics, and Business Colloquium | Spring 2024 | 288.1 sec. 001 | Immigration Law | View Teaching Evaluation |
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US arrests more immigrants in February 2025 than any month in last seven years
“It’s absolutely the case that Ice enforcement appears to be becoming more indiscriminate,” said David Hausman, assistant professor at the University of California at Berkeley’s law school. “First, we know they’re trying to maximize the number of arrests each day, which means they can’t be as thoughtful about what they’re doing. And second, they explicitly have the goal of spreading fear among immigrants in the United States, and indiscriminate arrests accomplish that as well.”
Despite Trump threats, here’s the reason the Bay Area may not see mass deportations
“Contrary to what the administration has been saying, there are actually very few non-citizens who have criminal convictions in the country, so the idea that there could be mass deportations of people convicted of crimes is pure nonsense,” said David Hausman, assistant professor at UC Berkeley School of Law. “That’s made up.”
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