Dean Cristina M. Rodríguez, Fellow, was announced as the 2026 recipient of the The Hispanic National Bar Association’s Academic Leadership Award. Dean Rodríguez will be preseneted with the award at the foundation’s award ceremony on July 23 in Washington, D.C. as part of the foundation’s Future Latino Leaders Summer Law Camp.
Rodríguez joined the faculty of Yale Law School in 2013, and as of February 1, 2026, began her tenure as the Sol and Lillian Goldman Dean and Professor of Law. Dean Rodríguez’s scholarship and teaching has focused on constitutional law and theory, administrative law and process, and immigration law and policy. In 2020, the book she co-authored with Adam B. Cox, titled “The President and Immigration Law” was released.
In 2021, former President Biden appointed Rodríguez to co-chair the bipartisan Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States. From 2011 to 2013, she served as deputy assistant attorney general in the Office of Legal Counsel at the U.S. Department of Justice. Rodríguez was also previously awarded the Academic Leadership award in 2014.
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