Assistant Professor of Law
E-mail: ltalexander@wisc.edu
Telephone: 890-1234
Office: Room 6110, Law School
Education:
J.D., Columbia University School of Law
B.A., Wesleyan University (with Honors)
Teaching Areas:
Business Organizations/Corporations
Community Lawyering
Contracts
Housing & Urban Community Development Law
Recently Taught Courses
711 Contracts
817 Business Organizations I
940 L&CP: Community Economic Development Law
940 L&CP: Housing & Economic Development Law
Biography
A native New Yorker, Professor Alexander joined the faculty in Fall 2006. Her scholarship focuses on transactional and law reform strategies to foster equity and sustainability in the areas of housing, community development, urban redevelopment and social entrepreneurship. Professor Alexander teaches Contracts I, Business Organizations I, and Housing & Community Economic Development Law.
Prior to joining the faculty, Professor Alexander practiced in the Chicago Office of Miner, Barnhill & Galland, P.C., where she focused on non-profit organizations, community economic development, affordable and fair housing, and residential and commercial real estate. She was also awarded a competitive Equal Justice Works Fellowship (formerly NAPIL), and with it worked as a staff attorney at the Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Inc.
During law school, she interned at the U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division; Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP; and the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, where she was an Earl Warren Civil Rights Scholar. She was also identified as an "Emerging Leader" by the National Congress for Community and Economic Development (NCCED). Before law school, she worked with non-profit organizations, as a Municipal Securities Analyst for PaineWebber Incorporated and as a Coro Fellow in Public Affairs.
Professor Alexander is affiliated with the UW Center on Community Economic Development and the UW Center for Non-Profits. She is a former Associate Editor of the Journal of Affordable Housing & Community Development Law, the premiere scholarly publication in the field of community development law. Professor Alexander is admitted in Illinois and in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.
Recent Scholarship
The Promise and Perils of "New Regionalist" Approaches to Sustainable Communities, 38 Fordham Urb. L. J. 629 (2011)
Stakeholder Participation in New Governance: Lessons From Chicago's Public Housing Reform Experiment, 16 Geo. J. on Poverty L. & Pol'y 117 (2009).
Afterword - Part III: Reflections on Success and Failure in New Governance and the Role of the Lawyer, 2010 Wisc. L. Rev. 737
A Sociolegal History of Public Housing Reform in Chicago, 17 J. Aff. Hous. & Comm. Dev. L. 155 (Fall 2007/Winter 2008).
Legal Strategies for Community Housing, in the International Encyclopedia of Housing and Home (Elsevier, forthcoming 2011).
Cultural Collective Efficacy, Place-Based Lawmaking and Integration (work in progress).
Professor Alexander's Papers are available on SSRN at:
