Stephen Legomsky

Steve Legomsky served for two years as Chief Counsel of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services in the Obama Administration and later returned to Washington as Senior Counselor to Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson. He was a member of President-Elect Biden’s transition team and a consultant to the transition teams of Presidents Clinton and Obama, President George H.W. Bush’s Commissioner of Immigration, the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees in Geneva, and several foreign governments, on immigration and refugee policies. Legomsky has testified before Congress many times. His law school coursebook on immigration and refugee law (now co-authored, 8th edition forthcoming in 2025) has been the required text at 197 law schools since its inception. Legomsky's scholarly books have been published by the Oxford University Press and the Cambridge University Press. He has also published a novel, a short story collection, and many op-eds. He has been appointed to visiting positions at Oxford University, Cambridge University, and other universities in the U.S., Mexico, New Zealand, Switzerland, Germany, Italy, Austria, Australia, Suriname, Singapore, Israel, and Portugal and has appeared several times on the PBS News Hour, NPR, and other major media outlets.