Peter Alexander is a Professor Emeritus from the Southern Illinois University Simmons Law School and a Visiting Professor University of Iowa College of Law this fall, where he will teach Trial Advocacy and Evidence. Alexander has enjoyed a long career in legal education that began in 1992 at the Dickinson School of Law, which subsequently merged with The Pennsylvania State University. After leaving Penn State-Dickinson, Alexander served as the Dean of Southern Illinois University’s Simmons Law School, the Founding Dean of the law school at the Indiana Institute of Technology, and Interim Associate Dean at the University of North Texas at Dallas College of Law.

Alexander is the author of numerous scholarly articles on topics ranging from Bankruptcy law to Feminist Legal Theory to legal education pedagogy. He has also co-authored a monograph on Bankruptcy and Family Law, and he co-authored a book with his late father entitled, “It Takes a Village: The Integration of the Hillburn School System,” which details the efforts of the Alexander patriarch, Thomas Ulysses Alexander, and Thurgood Marshall to integrate a school district just 40 miles northwest of New York City. He also authored a book about one of America's greatest architects entitled, "Insufficient Funds: The Financial Life of Frank Lloyd Wright."

 

Alexander is a fellow in the American College of Bankruptcy and an elected member of the American Law Institute.