Lawrence A. Alexander
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Born | Fort Worth, Texas, U.S. | September 23, 1943
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Occupation | Law Professor |
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Lawrence A. Alexander (born September 23, 1943) is an American legal scholar focusing on constitutional law, criminal law, and jurisprudence. He is the Warren Distinguished Professor at the University of San Diego School of Law.[1][2] He has also taught at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, the University of Texas School of Law, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.[3][4]
Life and career
[edit]Alexander was born in Fort Worth, Texas.[4] He received a BA in Philosophy in 1965 from Williams College, and an LLB in 1968 from Yale University.[3][4]
In an August 2017 piece in The Philadelphia Inquirer entitled “Paying the price for breakdown of the country’s bourgeois culture,” Alexander wrote with Amy Wax, the Robert Mundheim Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School that the decline of “bourgeois values” since the 1950s has contributed to social ills as male labor-force-participation rates are down to Depression-era levels, opioid abuse is epidemic, half of all children are born to single mothers, and many college students lack basic skills, asserting that "all cultures are not equal".[5]
He is the author of Is There a Right of Freedom of Expression? (Cambridge University Press, 2005).[6] With Emily Sherwin, he is the author of The Rule of Rules: Morality, Rules & the Dilemmas of Law (Duke University Press, 2001)[7] and Demystifying Legal Reasoning (Cambridge University Press, 2008).[8] He has written over 170 scholarly articles.[9]
References
[edit]- ^ "Larry Alexander". sandiego.edu. Retrieved May 13, 2017.
- ^ "USD Law Professor Larry Alexander Heavily Quoted in Yahoo/ABC Article about Officer in Ferguson". sandiego.edu. August 21, 2014. Retrieved May 13, 2017.
- ^ a b Biography – Lawrence Alexander – University of San Diego
- ^ a b c Resumé of Larry Alexander
- ^ Amy Wax and Larry Alexander, Paying the price for breakdown of the country's bourgeois culture,The Philadelphia Inquirer, August 9, 2017.
- ^ Reviews of Is There a Right of Freedom of Expression?:
- Farrell, Ian P. (September 2006), Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
- Bix, Brian (July 2007), Philosophical Books, 48 (3): 285–286, doi:10.1111/j.1468-0149.2007.00449_11.x
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- ^ Review of The Rule of Rules:
- Alces, Peter A. (May 2003), "The unruliness of rules", Michigan Law Review, 101 (6): 2037–2059, doi:10.2307/3595343, JSTOR 3595343, S2CID 159226975
- ^ Reviews of Demystifying Legal Reasoning:
- Priel, Dan (January 2009), Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
- Saffie, Francisco (July 2009), The Cambridge Law Journal, 68 (2): 477–479, doi:10.1017/S0008197309000701, JSTOR 40388813, S2CID 143791464
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- ^ Yale Law School Holds Roundtable on the Influence of Professor Larry Alexander – University of San Diego