Lawrence A. Alexander | |
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Born | Fort Worth, Texas, U.S. | September 23, 1943
Occupation | Law Professor |
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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. [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]
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]
Alasdair Chalmers MacIntyre is a Scottish-American philosopher who has contributed to moral and political philosophy as well as history of philosophy and theology. MacIntyre's After Virtue (1981) is one of the most important works of Anglophone moral and political philosophy in the 20th century. He is senior research fellow at the Centre for Contemporary Aristotelian Studies in Ethics and Politics (CASEP) at London Metropolitan University,Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame,and permanent senior distinguished research fellow at the Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture. During his lengthy academic career,he also taught at Brandeis University,Duke University,Vanderbilt University,and Boston University.
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Orly Lobel is an author and Warren Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of San Diego (USD) School of Law. Lobel is one of the nation's foremost legal experts on labor and employment law. She is also one of the nation's top-cited young legal scholars. Along with numerous scholarly articles and dozens of essays for media publications,Lobel has written and published three books for general audiences. Her most recent book,The Equality Machine:Harnessing Digital Technology for a Brighter,More Inclusive Future,was named one of The Economist's Best Books of 2022.
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