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

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. He has also taught at the

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, the University of Texas School of Law, and the

Hebrew University of Jerusalem The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI; he, הַאוּנִיבֶרְסִיטָה הַעִבְרִית בִּירוּשָׁלַיִם) is a public research university based in Jerusalem, Israel. Co-founded by Albert Einstein and Dr. Chaim Weiz ...

.Biography – Lawrence Alexander – University of San Diego
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Life and career

Alexander was born in

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. He received a BA in Philosophy in 1965 from

Williams College Williams College is a Private college, private liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Williamstown, Massachusetts. It was established as a men's college in 1793 with funds from the estate of Ephraim Williams, a col ...

, and an LLB in 1968 from

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. In an August 2017 piece in ''

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'' entitled “Paying the price for breakdown of the country’s bourgeois culture,” Alexander wrote with

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, the

Robert Mundheim Robert Harry Mundheim (born February 24, 1933) is an American attorney and law professor. He is former Dean of the University of Pennsylvania Law School, General Counsel of the U.S. Treasury Department, Co-Chairman of the law firm Fried, Frank, Ha ...

Professor of Law at the

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 Emily L. Sherwin is the Frank B. Ingersoll Professor of Law at the Cornell Law School. At Cornell, her specialties include "jurisprudence, property, and remedies". Sherwin did her undergraduate studies at Lake Forest College in Illinois, graduating ...

, 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.Yale Law School Holds Roundtable on the Influence of Professor Larry Alexander – University of San Diego
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