Zabdi Salazar is a Ph.D. candidate in Jurisprudence and Social Policy at UC Berkeley and a graduate of Berkeley Law. Her research examines immigration adjudication, administrative law, federal courts, and refugee protection using mixed methods, including administrative data analysis, doctrinal analysis, and qualitative interviews. Her dissertation studies how legal rules, executive power, and judicial review shape asylum and immigration-court outcomes. At the D-Lab, she is especially interested in supporting empirical legal research, public-law data projects, and interdisciplinary approaches to studying courts, agencies, and legal institutions.
Empirical Legal Studies, Law and Society, Immigration Law, Administrative Law, Public Law, Federal Courts, Immigration Adjudication, Refugee and Asylum Law, Judicial Review, Mixed Methods Research, Administrative Data Analysis, Causal Inference, Qualitative Interviews
