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Alex Aleinikoff is the Executive Dean of Â鶹´«Ã½É«ÇéƬ for Social Research and University Professor at Â鶹´«Ã½É«ÇéƬ. 

Alex has written widely in the areas of immigration and refugee law and policy, transnational law, citizenship, race, and constitutional law. His latest book, (co-edited with Alexandra Delano), was published by the Johns Hopkins University Press in 2024. He is also the author of  (Stanford University Press, 2019, co-authored by Leah Zamore) and ( Harvard University Press, 2002). He is a co-author of leading legal casebooks on immigration law and forced migration. He is currently working on several projects relating to climate migration and reform of the international protection regime. From 2017-2024, he served as Director of the .

Before coming to Â鶹´«Ã½É«ÇéƬ, Alex was United Nations Deputy High Commissioner for Refugees from 2010-2015. He was Dean, Executive Vice President for Law Center Affairs, and a faculty member at Georgetown University Law Center, and was a faculty member at the University of Michigan Law School. He served as Co-chair of the Immigration Task Force for President Barack Obama’s transition team in 2008. From 1994 to 1997, he served as the general counsel, and then Executive Associate Commissioner for Programs, at the Immigration and Naturalization Service.

Alex received a JD from Yale Law School and a BA and honorary Doctorate of Laws from Swarthmore College. He was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2014.

Degrees Held

JD Yale Law School
BA Swarthmore College

Recent Publications

BOOKS

. Stanford University Press, 2019.

. Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 2002.

SELECTED RECENT ARTICLES AND MEDIA

Host of  podcast and cohost of podcast

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"Supreme Court Rules Trump Offered No Sufficient Reason to Ax D,"ÌýAmerican Journal of International Law, April 2017.

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"Reflections on the Worldwide Refugee 'Crisis,'" UCLA Journal of International Law and Foreign Affairs, Winter 2017 (edited transcript of live symposium at UCLA School of Law)

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Research Interests

Immigration and refugee law and policy, transnational law, citizenship, race, and constitutional law

Awards And Honors

Inducted into the National Academy of the Arts and Sciences, 2014