T. Alexander Aleinikoff

This person is no longer with the Carnegie Endowment as of 9/2001. He can be reached at the Migration Policy Institute.

Alexander Aleinikoff directs the Comparative Citizenship Project and focuses on such issues as the rights and obligations of citizens and aliens, dual nationality, and naturalization policies. He is also a professor of law at the Georgetown University Law Center.

Before joining the Endowment, Mr. Aleinikoff was executive associate commissioner for programs at the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) at the U.S. Department of Justice. He was general counsel to the INS during 1994 and 1995. Prior to that, he taught at the University of Michigan Law School.

Educated at Swarthmore College and Yale Law School, he has written Immigration and Citizenship: Process and Policy and Modern Constitutional Theory: A Reader. He writes frequently on immigration law and has published in numerous law journals. He is presently on the Committee on International Migration of the Social Science Research Council.

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