Linda S. Bosniak is an internationally known scholar who has published extensively on questions of immigration, citizenship, nationalism, equality, and territoriality in constitutional and political theory. She is currently in residence at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton (2015-2017), where she is completing a new book on territoriality and immigrants' rights.

Professor Bosniak has lectured widely, nationally and internationally. She was a resident fellow at the Rockefeller Center in Bellagio, Italy, and at Princeton University's Law and Public Affairs Program, and served for a year as the acting director of the Rutgers Center for the Critical Analysis of Contemporary Culture.

Professor Bosniak's first book, The Citizen and the Alien: Dilemmas of Contemporary Membership (Princeton University Press, 2006, 2008), has been widely read and reviewed, and subject to discussion in special symposia. She has been active in the AALS Section on Immigration, serving as chair in 2004-05. She coauthored a report of The Constitution Project on Rights of Immigrants After 9/11; served on the advisory board of the Center for the Study of Migration, Ethnicity, and Citizenship at the New School; and has been a participant at the Open Society Justice Initiative's "Clarifying and Expanding the Right of Noncitizens." She currently serves on the Advisory Board of the journal Citizenship Studies.

Prior to joining the Rutgers faculty in 1992, Professor Bosniak worked as an attorney for the civil rights firm Rabinowitz, Boudin in New York, and as a staff attorney for the Second Circuit Court of Appeals.