ONLINE | March 7, 2025 | 10:30 AM-12:00 PM
Join leading scholars of constitutional law, history, and immigration policy for an in-depth conversation on the origins, evolution, and contemporary significance of birthright citizenship in the United States hosted by The Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility.
Presented by Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility at The New School For Social Research and The New School.
Speakers
Mira Siegelberg
Director | Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility
Mira Siegelberg is Associate Professor of Politics and Director of the Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility at The New School for Social Research. She is a historian with interests in European and U.S. intellectual history, the history and theory of rights, law and legal thought, and the politics of citizenship and migration. Her research focuses particularly on the intellectual, legal, and institutional formation of modern international order.
T. Alexander Aleinikoff
Executive Dean | The New School For Social Research
Alex Aleinikoff is the Executive Dean of The New School for Social Research and University Professor at The New School.
Alex has written widely in the areas of immigration and refugee law and policy, transnational law, citizenship, race, and constitutional law. Before coming to The New School, Alex was United Nations Deputy High Commissioner for Refugees from 2010-2015.
Gerald L. Neuman
Professor and Human Rights Program Director | Harvard Law School
Gerald L. Neuman is the J. Sinclair Armstrong Professor of International, Foreign, and Comparative Law, and the Director of the Human Rights Program at HLS. He teaches human rights, constitutional law, and immigration and nationality law. His current research focuses on international human rights bodies, transnational dimensions of constitutionalism, and rights of foreign nationals.
Carol Nackenoff
Professor Emerita of Political Science | Swarthmore College
Carol grew up in Arlington, Virginia. She received her B.A. from Smith College and her M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. Her dissertation drew upon her training in American politics and survey research methods, and its chief question was the relationship between economic transformations affecting working Americans and their political beliefs and attachments.
Amanda Frost
Professor and Immigration, Migration and Human Rights Program Director | University of Virginia School of Law
Amanda Frost writes and teaches in the fields of immigration and citizenship law, federal courts and jurisdiction, and judicial ethics. Her scholarship has been cited by over a dozen federal and state courts, and she has been invited to testify on the topics of her articles before both the House and Senate Judiciary Committees. Her non-academic writing has been published in The Atlantic, The New Republic, The Washington Post, The New York Times, Slate, USA Today and The American Prospect, and she authors the “Academic Round-up” column for SCOTUSblog.