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 courses in Fall 2025:
• 200F sec. 003 - Civil Procedure
• 216 sec. 001 - Law, Economics, and Business Colloquium
Courses During Other Semesters
| Semester | Course Num | Course Title |  Teaching Evaluations | Spring 2025 | 288.1 sec. 001 | Immigration Law | View Teaching Evaluation | Spring 2024 | 288.1 sec. 001 | Immigration Law | View Teaching Evaluation |
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Q&A: Professor David Hausman on Tracking Mass Deportations
Comparing the month before the inauguration to the month of July, arrests of people with no criminal charges or convictions across the country have gone up about ten times, said David Hausman, an assistant professor at Berkeley Law and the director of the project, a repository of ICE data collected largely via FOIA request.
Berkeley Law-led deportation database keeps eye on immigration enforcement
“The data really is a gold mine of information about what’s happening in interior immigration enforcement,” said David Hausman, the project’s faculty director and an assistant professor at Berkeley Law.
Meet the UC Berkeley data team who proved Trump isn’t deporting just ‘worst of the worst’
“We don’t see ourselves as antagonistic and try to strike a collaborative tone because we think the agencies can actually benefit from releasing the information,” said Professor David Hausman. “Our goal in the most basic way is to get data out to the people, to update it and publicize it.”
‘Voices Carry’: Professor David Hausman’s Deportation Data Project Pulls the Curtain Back on Immigration Enforcement
Host Gwyneth Shaw talks to Hausman about the grant-funded project, which is the first centralized repository of individual-level U.S. government immigration enforcement data and is publicly available.
THE STAKES EXPLAINED: Immigration
Professor David Hausman discusses the state of immigration in the United States.
How Trump Has Targeted New Groups for Deportation
Expedited removal was used in ~7% of ICE arrests in the first month of the new admin, slightly up from 2024, per data from UC Berkeley Law Assistant Professor David Hausman and the Data Deportation Project.
As deportations ramp up, immigrants increasingly fear Ice check-ins: ‘All bets are off’
The Guardian reviewed cases in the arrest data, which was released by the Deportation Data Project from UC Berkeley Law School, where people who had previously been released on supervision were now arrested, as well as cases of people with pending immigration proceedings who were arrested in their communities.
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.”
‘A Meaningful Difference’: Additional ‘Supermod’ to Give 1L Experience an Upgrade
Beginning this fall, 1L students will enjoy smaller sections of their required courses, thanks to a challenging move that’s been years in the making.
Driven by Race: Chicago’s persistent problem of Black and white traffic stops
Professor David Hausman discusses a study he co-authored with Dorothy Kronick titled “The Illusory End of Stop and Frisk in Chicago?.”
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