Alex Chemerinsky
Associate Professor of Law
B.A., cum laude, Tulane University, 2016
J.D., Harvard Law School, 2021
Member, California State Bar
Alex Chemerinsky is an accomplished appellate litigator who brings that experience to bear in his Civil Procedure I and Civil Procedure II courses at Southwestern. As a lawyer, Professor Chemerinsky is a generalist who has briefed and argued appeals on behalf of both plaintiffs and defendants in state and federal appellate courts.
"The most challenging aspect of learning and thinking about law--and, without a doubt, the most important--is conceptualizing its endless nuance: the law must be for everyone, all of the time."
As a scholar, Professor Chemerinsky's research focuses on liberty and technology--and especially on freedom of expression, privacy, and creativity in the digital age. Professor Chemerinsky's recent scholarship has explored developing issues in free-speech and privacy law, the role of courts and legislatures in protecting speech and privacy values, and the ongoing fight over those values on the internet. His work has been published by the Texas Law Review, Marquette Law Review, North Carolina Law Review, Oxford University Press, and Los Angeles Times, among others.
Professor Chemerinsky is a native Angeleno who previously practiced civil appellate litigation at a leading appellate litigation firm in Los Angeles. Before that, he gained experience at each level of the litigation process while clerking at a U.S. District Court and a U.S. Court of Appeals, and, before law school, while working in the clerk's office of a state supreme court. In Spring semester 2021 and 2023, Professor Chemerinsky taught a seminar on copyright law through Harvard Law School's online CopyrightX program.
Professor Chemerinsky lives in the Los Angeles area with his beloved dog (and a frequent character in his classroom hypotheticals), Doug.