Janet Cooper Alexander

Janet Cooper Alexander is an American lawyer who is currently the Frederick I. Richman Professor of Law Emerita at Stanford Law School.[1][2]

Janet Cooper Alexander
Alma materSwarthmore College, Stanford University, University of California, Berkeley School of Law
Scientific career
FieldsConstitutional law
InstitutionsStanford Law School

Career

Alexander graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature with distinction from Swarthmore College in 1968.[3] In 1973, she received a Master of Arts in English from Stanford University, and a Juris Doctor from the University California, Berkeley Law School in 1978.[4] She then served as a law clerk to Judge Shirley M. Hufstedler of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit from 1978 to 1979. Alexander was a clerk to Justice Thurgood Marshall of the United States Supreme Court during the 1979 Term, at the same time as Cass Sunstein.[5]

Following her clerkships, she practiced law at Califano, Ross & Heineman in Washington, D.C. from 1980 to 1982, and then for five years at Morrison & Foerster in San Francisco, California, where she was a partner, 1984–1987.[1]

In 1987, Alexander accepted a position as associate professor at Stanford Law School. She became a professor in 1994, and since 2002 has held the Frederick I. Richman chair.[1]

See also
  • List of law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States

References
  1. "Janet Cooper Alexander". stanford.edu. Retrieved May 10, 2017.
  2. "An Introduction to Class Action Procedure in the United States". stanford.edu. Retrieved May 10, 2017.
  3. "Alumni Association Officers-Janet Cooper Alexander, '68" (PDF). Swarthmore College Bulletin. Summer 2002. p. 39. Retrieved May 10, 2017.
  4. "Class of 1978 Reunion-Honor Roll of Donors: Janet Alexander". University of California, Berkeley Law School. September 27, 2013. Retrieved May 10, 2017.
  5. Alexander, Janet Cooper (Summer 1992). "A Tribute to Justice Thurgood Marshall". Stanford Law Review. 44: 1231–1235. doi:10.2307/1229055. JSTOR 1229055.

Selected publications
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