T. Alexander Aleinikoff has been Dean of the Georgetown University Law Center and Executive Vice President of Georgetown University since July 2004. He has been a member of the Georgetown faculty since 1997 and served as Associate Dean for Research from 2003 to 2004. He has written widely on immigration refugee and citizenship law and policy, constitutional law, statutory interpretation and race discrimination.

His most recent books include, Migration and International Law (ed., with Vincent Chetail) (Asser Press 2003); Semblances of Sovereignty: The Constitution, the State and American Citizenship (Harvard U. Press 2002); Citizenship Policies for an Age of Migration (with Douglas Klusmeyer) (Carnegie Endowment for Int’l Peace/Migration Policy Institute 2002); and Modern Constitutional Theory: A Reader (with John H. Garvey and Daniel Farber) (West Group 4th ed. 1999). He is a co-author of a leading casebook on immigration and citizenship law, Immigration and Citizenship: Process and Policy (West Publishing, 5th ed. 2003) (with David Martin and Hiroshi Motomura).

Dean Aleinikoff served as General Counsel and Executive Associate Commissioner for Programs at the Immigration and Naturalization Service for several years during the Clinton Administration. From 1997 to 2004 he was a Senior Associate at the Migration Policy Institute, where he now serves on the Board of Trustees.