T. Alexander Aleinikoff is Dean of the Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, DC, USA, since 2004. Aleinikoff received a bachelor's degree from Swarthmore College, and a J.D. (law degree) from Yale Law School in 1977. The schools original sign, preserved on the north quad of the present-day campus. ... Year 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Swarthmore College is a private, independent, liberal arts college in the United States with an enrollment of about 1,450 students. ... The Sterling Law Building Sculptural ornamentation on the Sterling Law Building Yale Law School, or YLS, is the law school of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. ...

Aleinikoff specializes in immigration policy, and has written a number of books on the topic. He has been a Senior Associate at the Migration Policy Institute, Executive Associate Commissioner of Programs, Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) within the U.S. Department of Justice (note that INS is now part of the Department of Homeland Security), and General Counsel of the INS. The Migration Policy Institute is a Washington, D.C.-based think tank established in 2001 by Kathleen Newland and Demetrios G. Papademetriou. ... The Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice Building in Washington, D.C. “Justice Department” redirects here. ... The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is a Cabinet department of the federal government of the United States that is concerned with protecting the American homeland and the safety of American citizens. ... A General Counsel is the chief lawyer of a legal department, usually in a corporation or government department. ...

Selected books

• Migration and International Legal Norms (T. Alexander Aleinikoff & Vincent Chetail eds., The Hague: T.M.C. Asser 2003).
• Immigration and Citizenship: Process and Policy (with David A. Martin and Hiroshi Motomura) (West Group 5th ed. forthcoming 2003).
• Migration and International Law, ed. (Associated Press, forthcoming 2003).
• Semblances of Sovereignty: The Constitution, the State, and American Citizenship (Harvard U. Press 2002).

Selected journal articles

• "Detaining Plenary Power: The Meaning and Impact of Zadvydas v. Davis," 16 Geo. Immigr. L.J. 365 (2002).
• "Securing Tribal Sovereignty: A Theory for Overturning Lone Wolf," 38 Tulsa L. Rev. 57 (2002).
• "American Citizenship: An Introduction," 5 Citizenship Stud. 5 (2001).
• "Citizenship Talk: A Revisionist Narrative," 69 Fordham L. Rev. 1689 (2001).
• "Between National and Post-National: Membership in the United States," 4 Mich. J. Race & L. 241 (1999).
• And Rubén Rumbaut, "Terms of Belonging: Are Models of Membership Self-fulfilling Prophecies?," 13 Geo. Immig. L.J. 1 (1998).