Lawrence A. Alexander

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. He has also taught at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, the University of Texas School of Law, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Life and career Alexander was born in Fort Worth, Texas.

He is the author of Is There a Right of Freedom of Expression? (Cambridge University Press, 2005). With Emily Sherwin, he is the author of The Rule of Rules: Morality, Rules & the Dilemmas of Law (Duke University Press, 2001) and Demystifying Legal Reasoning (Cambridge University Press, 2008). He has written over 170 scholarly articles.