Thomas Alexander Aleinikoff

Professor T. Alexander Aleinikoff is the former United Nations Deputy High Commissioner for Refugees and is a Professor of Law at Columbia University currently. Prior to taking up his current post, he served as executive vice president for Law Center affairs and dean of the Law Center at Georgetown. Earlier, he 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 co-chaired the immigration policy review team for the presidential transition of Barack Obama. He published numerous articles in the areas of immigration, refugee, and citizenship law and policy; constitutional law; statutory interpretation; and race discrimination. Books include Immigration and Citizenship: Process and Policy (with D. Martin, Motomura, and Fullerton, 2008); Modern Constitutional Theory: A Reader with J. Garvey and D. Farber, 2004); Semblances of Sovereignty: The Constitution, the State, and American Citizenship; (2002).