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Lawrence A. Alexander - Place of Birth, Date of Birth, Age, Wiki, Facts, Net Worth, Birthday, Biography and Family
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About Lawrence A. Alexander
- Lawrence A.
- Alexander (born September 23, 1943) is an American lawyer and law professor, focusing on constitutional law, criminal law, and jurisprudence, currently 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.Alexander was born in Fort Worth, Texas.
- He received a BA in Philosophy in 1965 from Williams College, and an LLB in 1968 from Yale University.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".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.
