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Professor T. Alexander Aleinikoff T. Alexander Aleinikoff

Professor of Law; Executive Vice President, Law Center Affairs; Dean of the Law Center
B.A., Swarthmore College; J.D., Yale

Address: 

600 New Jersey Avenue N.W.
Washington, DC 20001

Office Location: McDonough 508

Assistant: Alma Robinson

Phone: 9031


Biography

Professor Aleinikoff joined the law faculty after having served as the Executive Associate Commissioner for Programs in the U.S. Department of Justice’s Immigration and Naturalization Service and as General Counsel in the Immigration and Naturalization Service. He has been on the faculty at the University of Michigan Law School. After receiving his law degree, he served as law clerk to the Honorable Edward Weinfeld, U.S. District Judge. He has published numerous articles in the areas of immigration refugee and citizenship law and policy, constitutional law, statutory interpretation and race discrimination. His most recent books include Semblances of Sovereignty: The Constitution, the State, and American Citizenship; Citizenship Policies for An Age of Migration (with Douglas Klusmeyer); Immigration: Process and Policy (with David Martin, Hiroshi Motomura, and Maryellen Fullerton); and Modern Constitutional Theory: A Reader (with John Garvey and Daniel Farber).