Professor of Law
B.A., Swarthmore College; J.D., Yale

Publications

Books

T. Alexander Aleinikoff & Judith C. Areen, Background Papers for Fair and Independent Courts: A Conference on the State of the Judiciary (Washington, D.C.: American Law Institute/Georgetown University Law Center 2006). [BOOK]

Modern Constitutional Theory: A Reader (T. Alexander Aleinikoff, John H. Garvey & Daniel A. Farber eds., St. Paul, Minn.: Thomson/West 5th ed. 2004). [BOOK]

T. Alexander Aleinikoff, David A. Martin & Hiroshi Motomura, Immigration and Citizenship: Process and Policy (St. Paul, Minn.: Thomson/West 5th ed. 2003). [BOOK]

Migration and International Legal Norms (T. Alexander Aleinikoff & Vincent Chetail eds., The Hague: T.M.C. Asser 2003). [BOOK]

Citizenship Policies for an Age of Migration (T. Alexander Aleinikoff & Douglas B. Klusmeyer eds., Washington, D.C.: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace 2002). [BOOK]

T. Alexander Aleinikoff, Semblances of Sovereignty: The Constitution, the State, and American Citizenship (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press 2002). [BOOK]

Citizenship Today: Global Perspectives and Practices (T. Alexander Aleinikoff & Douglas B. Klusmeyer eds., Washington, D.C.: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace 2001). [BOOK]

From Migrants to Citizens: Membership in a Changing World (T. Alexander Aleinikoff & Douglas B. Klusmeyer eds., Washington, D.C.: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace 2000). [BOOK]

Book Chapters & Collected Works

T. Alexander Aleinikoff, International Legal Norms on Migration: Substance Without Architecture, in International Migration Law: Developing Paradigms and Key Challenges 467-480 (Euan Macdonald, Ryszard Cholewinski & Richard Perruchoud eds., Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2007).

T. Alexander Aleinikoff, Protected Characteristics and Social Perceptions: An Analysis of the Meaning of “Membership of a Particular Social Group”, in Refugee Protection in International Law: UNHCR’s Global Consultations on International Protection 263-311 (Erika Feller & Volker Türk eds., New York: Cambridge University Press 2003). [BOOK]

T. Alexander Aleinikoff, International Legal Norms and Migration: A Report, in Migration and International Legal Norms 1-27 (T. Alexander Aleinikoff & Vincent Chetail eds., The Hague: T.M.C. Asser 2003). [BOOK]

T. Alexander Aleinikoff, Between National and Postnational: Membership in the United States, in Toward Assimilation and Citizenship: Immigrants in Liberal Nation-States 110-130 (Christian Joppke & Ewa Morawska eds., New York: Palgrave Macmillan 2002).

T. Alexander Aleinikoff & Douglas B. Klusmeyer, Plural Nationality: Facing the Future in a Migratory World, in Citizenship Today: Global Perspectives and Practices 63-88 (T. Alexander Aleinikoff & Douglas B. Klusmeyer eds., Washington, D.C.: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace 2001). [BOOK]

T. Alexander Aleinikoff, Policing Boundaries: Migration, Citizenship, and the State, in E Pluribus Unum? Contemporary and Historical Perspectives on Immigrant Political Incorporation 267-291 (Gary Gerstle & John H. Mollenkopf eds., New York: Russell Sage Foundation 2001). [BOOK]

T. Alexander Aleinikoff, Immigration and Alienage (Update 1), Entry, in 3 Encyclopedia of the American Constitution 1330-1332 (Leonard W. Levy, Kenneth L. Karst & Adam Winkler eds., New York: Macmillan Reference 2d ed. 2000). [BOOK]

T. Alexander Aleinikoff, Between Principles and Politics: U.S. Citizenship Policy, in From Migrants to Citizens: Membership in a Changing World 119-172 (T. Alexander Aleinikoff & Douglas B. Klusmeyer eds., Washington, D.C.: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace 2000).

T. Alexander Aleinikoff, Citizenship (Update 2), Entry, in 2 Encyclopedia of the American Constitution 367-369 (Leonard W. Levy, Kenneth L. Karst & Adam Winkler eds., New York: Macmillan Reference 2d ed. 2000).

Journal Articles

T. Alexander Aleinikoff, Law in a Global Context: Georgetown’s Innovative First Year Program, 24 Penn St. Int’l L. Rev. 825-827 (2006). [L] [W]

T. Alexander Aleinikoff, Comment: Charles Black and Human Rights, 92 Geo L.J. 773-778 (2004). [HEIN] [L] [W]

T. Alexander Aleinikoff, International Law, Sovereignty, and American Constitutionalism: Reflections on the Customary International Law Debate, 98 Am. J. Int’l L. 91-108 (2004). [HEIN] [L] [W]

T. Alexander Aleinikoff, Thinking Outside the Sovereignty Box: Transnational Law and the U.S. Constitution, 82 Tex. L. Rev. 1989-2016 (2004). [HEIN] [L] [W]

T. Alexander Aleinikoff, Detaining Plenary Power: The Meaning and Impact of Zadvydas v. Davis, 16 Geo. Immigr. L.J. 365-389 (2002). [HEIN] [L] [W]

T. Alexander Aleinikoff, Securing Tribal Sovereignty: A Theory For Overturning Lone Wolf, 38 Tulsa L. Rev. 57-71 (2002). [HEIN] [L]

T. Alexander Aleinikoff, Citizenship Talk: A Revisionist Narrative, 69 Fordham L. Rev. 1689-1694 (2001). [HEIN] [L] [W]

T. Alexander Aleinikoff, Sovereignty Studies in Constitutional Law: A Comment, 17 Const. Comment. 197-203 (2000). [HEIN] [L] [W]
T. Alexander Aleinikoff, Between National and Post-National: Membership in the United States, 4 Mich. J. Race & L. 241 (1999).

T. Alexander Aleinikoff & Cornelia T.L. Pillard, Skeptical Scrutiny of Plenary Power: Judicial and Executive Branch Decision Making in Miller v. Albright, 1998 Sup. Ct. Rev. 1 (1999).

T. Alexander Aleinikoff, A Multicultural Nationalism?, 36 Am. Prospect 80 (1998).

T. Alexander Aleinikoff & Rubén Rumbaut, Terms of Belonging: Are Models of Membership Self-Fulfilling Prophecies?, 13 Geo. Immig. L.J. 1 (1998).

T. Alexander Aleinikoff, Non-Judicial Checks on Agency Actions, 49 Admin. L. Rev. 193 (1997).

T. Alexander Aleinikoff, The Tightening Circle of Membership, 22 Hastings Const. L.Q. 915 (1995).

T. Alexander Aleinikoff, Safe Haven: Pragmatics and Prospects, 35 Va. J. Int’l L. 71 (1994).

T. Alexander Aleinikoff, Puerto Rico and the Constitution: Conundrums and Prospects, 1 Const. Comment. 15 (1994).

T. Alexander Aleinikoff, Drawing Constitutional Lines after Shaw v. Reno, 92 Mich. L. Rev. 588 (1993).

T. Alexander Aleinikoff, A Comment on Plain Meaning, West Virginia University Hospitals, Inc. v. Casey, and Due Process of Statutory Interpretation, 45 Vand. L. Rev. 687 (1992).

T. Alexander Aleinikoff, Freedom, Antiracism, and Citizenship, 1992 U. Ill. L. Rev. 961.

T. Alexander Aleinikoff, The Continuing Significance of Racism, 63 U. Colo. L. Rev. 325 (1992).

T. Alexander Aleinikoff, A Case for Race-Consciousness, 91 Colum. L. Rev. 1060 (1991).

T. Alexander Aleinikoff, Federal Regulation of Aliens and the Constitution, 83 Am. J. Int’l L. 862 (1989).

T. Alexander Aleinikoff, Updating Statutory Interpretation, 87 Mich. L. Rev. 20 (1988).

T. Alexander Aleinikoff, Constitutional Law in the Age of Balancing, 96 Yale L.J. 943 (1987).

T. Alexander Aleinikoff, Theories of Loss of Citizenship, 84 Mich. L. Rev. 1471 (1986).

T. Alexander Aleinikoff, Aliens, Due Process And ‘Community Ties’: A Response To Martin, 4 U. Pitt. L. Rev. 237 (1983).

T. Alexander Aleinikoff & Robert M. Cover, Federalism Dialectical Federalism: Habeas Corpus and The Court, 86 Yale L.J. 1035 (1977).