Haiyun Damon-Feng is an Assistant Professor of Law at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, where she teaches and writes in the areas of immigration law, administrative law, and constitutional law. Damon-Feng’s research focuses on issues relating to executive power, immigration, procedure, and race. Her scholarship has appeared or is forthcoming in the Duke Law Journal and the Florida Law Review, and her shorter writings have appeared in the Harvard Law Review blog and Slate. Damon-Feng previously taught at the New York University School of Law and the University of Washington School of Law, and she was an inaugural Administrative Law Fellow with the ABA Section of Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice.

Prior to entering academia, she co-founded the Adelante Pro Bono Project, a cross-border immigration rapid response initiative. Her work has been featured by The New York Times, the Washington Post, and others. Damon-Feng also serves as an advisor to Define American and consults on immigration law issues in television and popular media, including on projects for NBC, ABC, and HBO. She was previously a staff attorney and Microsoft fellow at Kids in Need of Defense (KIND) and an associate at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison. Damon-Feng earned her J.D. from Yale Law School. She speaks Spanish and Mandarin Chinese.