Saúl Ramírez is the Laura E. Gómez Teaching Fellow on Latinx People and the Law (2026–2028) at UCLA School of Law, where he teaches Latinx People and the Law. His research lies at the intersection of law and sociology, race and ethnicity, and immigration and criminal law (crimmigration). His current work examines deportation as a socio-legal institution, drawing on qualitative life-history interviews with Mexican deportees to investigate the relationship between deportation, punishment, and immigrant incorporation. Prior to joining UCLA Law, he served as the Climenko Fellow and Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School, where he taught legal research and writing and had previously served as the Reginald F. Lewis Fellow.  

Ramírez received his B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley, where he double-majored in Chicano Studies and Ethnic Studies and double-minored in Education and Global Poverty & Practice. In 2020, he was named a Paul & Daisy Soros Fellow for New Americans. He received his J.D. from Yale Law School and is currently completing his Ph.D. in Sociology at Harvard University, where his dissertation examines the experiences of Mexican deportees who return to the United States through the lenses of law, identity, and assimilation.