T. Alexander Aleinikoff

Dean of the Georgetown University Law Center T. Alexander Aleinikoff has been appointed to serve as the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights starting on February 1, according to a University broadcast e-mail. According to the UN, the office of the Comissioner for Human Rights “leads global human rights efforts [and] speaks out objectively in the face of human rights violations worldwide.”

Aleinikoff will remain as Dean of the Law Center until late January when he will move to Geneva, Switzerland where the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights is located.

Aleinikoff first joined the Georgetown Law faculty in 1997. According to his faculty page, he has published in the areas of “immigration refugee and citizenship law and policy, constitutional law, statutory interpretation and race discrimination.”

Later, he served as associate dean for research from 2003 to 2004 until becoming dean of the Law Center and executive vice president of Georgetown University in 2004.  He is also one of the highest paid staff members at Georgetown, with an annual salary of $390,130, according to the 990 report from the 2007-2008 school year.

The full email sent to the campus community by President DeGioia after the jump.

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The Georgetown Law Center recently announced that it will be starting a loan forgiveness program for graduates who go into the public sector.  Now any Georgetown Law alum who does 10 years of work in the public sector in a legal capacity and earns less than $75,000 a year will not have to repay their law school loans.

According to the Law Center’s press release, loan repayments for those working for U.S.-based government or nonprofit organizations will be reimbursed by Georgetown Law, and the remaining principal balance will be forgiven by the federal government.

The money to cover the reimbursement will come out-of-pocket from the Law Center.  For public service employees who earn more than $75,000 the Law Center’s benefits would continue on a diminishing basis.