Keynote Lecture:
“The Peopling of America: Toward a New Narrative on U.S. Immigration”
T. Alexander Aleinikoff is University Professor and director of the Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility at The New School in New York City. He was a law professor and dean at the Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, D.C. He served from 2010 to 2015 as the deputy high commissioner in the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Geneva, Switzerland. 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 and general counsel and executive associate commissioner of programs of the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) at the U.S. Department of Justice (now part of the Department of Homeland Security).He was co-chair of the Immigration Policy Review Team for the presidential transition of Barack Obama.