October 08, 2008
First Alex Drapos Memorial Lecture, Oct. 14
Georgetown Law Center Dean to speak on immigration law Oct. 14.
WORCESTER, MA— T. Alexander Aleinikoff, a leading scholar and expert on immigration law and policy, will deliver “Global Law in the U.S. Legal System: Friend or Foe?” at the inaugural Alex Drapos Memorial Lecture, at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 14, in the Daniels Theater of Atwood Hall, at Clark University.
The Alex Drapos Memorial Lecture Series is a program of free, public lectures concerning law and American society, established by the Fallon Clinic Foundation, in memory of Alexander Drapos, former Clark University alumnus and Trustee, and Fallon Clinic Foundation Trustee.
The distinguished speaker, Aleinikoff, has been dean of the Georgetown University Law Center and executive vice president of Georgetown University since July 2004. He has been a member of the Georgetown faculty since 1997 and served as associate dean for research from 2003 to 2004. He has written widely on immigration refugee and citizenship law and policy, constitutional law, statutory interpretation and race discrimination.
Dean Aleinikoff served as General Counsel and Executive Associate Commissioner for Programs at the Immigration and Naturalization Service for several years during the Clinton Administration. From 1997 to 2004 he was a senior associate at the Migration Policy Institute, where he now serves on the Board of Trustees. From 1981 to 1994 he was a professor at the University of Michigan Law School.
The Fallon Clinic Foundation has allocated funding to this lecture series, which brings speakers to the Clark University campus who have expertise in the areas of law and American society, such as immigration law and policy or health-care law, which were of major interest and concern to Mr. Drapos. The lectures are being organized by the Clark’s Pre-Law/Law and Society Program in consultation with Clark University President John Bassett and a representative of the Fallon Clinic Foundation.
Mr. Drapos died on July 10, 2006. He graduated from Clark in 1958 with an A.B., and earned his law degree in 1961 at Duke University before embarking on a long, distinguished career in commercial, banking and immigration law. He practiced at Fletcher, Tilton and Whipple, PC, in Worcester, where he was a director. He was a member of the Worcester County and Massachusetts Bar Associations and of the American Immigration Lawyers Association.
A longtime, generous supporter of Clark University, as well as numerous community, civic and cultural organizations, Mr. Drapos served on a number of committees and on the University’s Board of Trustees. He received the Distinguished Service Award, the highest award presented by the Alumni Association.
Clark University is a private, co-educational liberal-arts research university with 2,200 undergraduate and 800 graduate students. Since its founding in 1887 as the first all-graduate school in the United States, Clark has challenged convention with innovative programs such as the International Studies Stream, the Strassler Family Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies and the accelerated BA/MA programs with the fifth year tuition-free for eligible students. The University is featured in Loren Pope’s book, “Colleges That Change Lives.”
Established in 1988 as a public charity, Fallon Clinic Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting community health and welfare through public education, research, higher education, and leadership. As the charitable arm of Fallon Clinic, the Foundation offers grants to non-profit organizations within Fallon Clinic’s service area that create access to healthcare for underserved populations, deliver programs to battle the obesity epidemic and support “Innovations in Healthy Living,” such as early literacy. Learn more