ISIM Faculty and Staff

T. Alexander Aleinikoff
Dean of the Georgetown University Law Center
aleinikt@georgetown.edu

T. Alexander Aleinikoff is widely regarded as the one of the leading immigration law scholars in the field. Professor Aleinikoff is Dean of the Georgetown University Law Center, where he also serves as Faculty Adviser to the Georgetown Immigration Law Journal. He is a Senior Associate at the Migration Policy Group, where he works on refugee protection, international migration, and citizenship, and U.S. immigration policy. From 1994-1997, Mr. Aleinikoff served as the General Counsel and then Executive Associate Commissioner for Programs of the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS). Prior to joining the Clinton administration, he was Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School.

Mr. Aleinikoff has published numerous articles in the areas of immigration, race, statutory interpretation, and constitutional law, and he is also the author of the principal taxt and casebooks on U.S. immigration. His most recent scholarship includes: co-editor (with Douglas Klusmeyer) of Citizenship Today: Global Perspectives and Practices; co-author (with Douglas Klusmeyer) of From Migrants to Citizens: Membership in a Changing World; co-author (with David Martin and Hiroshi Motomura) of Immigration: Process and Policy; and co-author (with John Garvey) of Modern Constitutional Theory: A Reader. His newest book, Citizenship Policies for an Age of Migration, was published in May 2002.

aleinikt@law.georgetown.edu