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.