Dr. Alexandra Lahav

Biography

Alexandra D. Lahav is a nationally recognized expert in the civil justice system, complex litigation, and tort law. She studies doctrine and institutional approaches, particularly focusing on methods for analyzing litigation risk and the history of products liability litigation. Professor Lahav teaches civil procedure, torts, complex litigation, and related subjects. She is the author of the award-winning book, 'Praise Litigation' (Oxford, 2017) and a new author of volume 11A of the Wright & Miller Federal Practice Procedure treatise, co-authoring a popular casebook on civil procedure. She has written thirty articles on class actions, multidistrict litigation, and tort law, which have been cited in courts and treatises. Lahav has been a member of the American Law Institute and served as a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study in 2019-2020. She has also been a visiting professor at prestigious law schools including Columbia, Harvard, Tel Aviv, and Yale. Prior to joining Cornell, she held the Ellen Ash Peters Chair at the University of Connecticut School of Law and won the Perry Zirkel Distinguished Teaching Award in 2019. Before entering academia, she was a litigator at a small civil rights firm in New York City and served as a law clerk to Justice Alan Handler of the New Jersey Supreme Court.

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