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According to Wikipedia, Lawrence A. Alexander is an American lawyer and law professor, focusing on constitutional law, criminal law, and jurisprudence, currently the Warren Distinguished Professor at the University of San Diego School of Law. He has also taught at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, the University of Texas School of Law, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

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Steps to the future : fresh thinking on the management of IT-based organizational transformation (1997) (190)
What Makes Wrongful Discrimination Wrong Biases, Preferences, Stereotypes, and Proxies (1992) (119)
Crime and Culpability: A Theory of Criminal Law (2009) (85)
The Moral Magic of Consent (II) (1996) (80)
On Extrajudicial Constitutional Interpretation (1997) (79)
The Rule of Rules: Morality, Rules, and the Dilemmas of Law (2001) (70)
Deontology at the Threshold (2000) (69)
Constitutionalism: Philosophical Foundations (2001) (67)
Demystifying Legal Reasoning (2008) (67)
Is there a right of freedom of expression (2005) (51)
"Is That English You're Speaking?" Why Intention Free Interpretation is an Impossibility (2004) (49)
The Ontology of Consent (2014) (40)
Law and Exclusionary Reasons (1990) (34)
Scalar Properties, Binary Judgments (2008) (31)
What We Do, and Why We Do It (1993) (30)
Crime and Culpability: The Culpable Act (2009) (28)
Liberalism, neutrality, and equality of welfare vs. equality of resources (1987) (27)
The Doomsday Machine: Proportionality, Punishment and Prevention (1980) (23)
Law's Limited Domain Confronts Morality's Universal Empire (2006) (21)
Insufficient Concern: A Unified Conception of Criminal Culpability (2000) (20)
Lesser Evils: A Closer Look at the Paradigmatic Justification (2005) (20)
Defending Judicial Supremacy: A Reply (2000) (20)
Mens Rea and Inchoate Crimes (1997) (20)
Inculpatory and exculpatory mistakes and the fact/law distinction: An essay in memory of Myke Balyes (1993) (17)
Are Procedural Rights Derivative Substantive Rights? (1998) (17)
Deception in Morality and Law (2003) (17)
"With Me, It's All er Nuthin'": Formalism in Law and Morality (1999) (16)
Banality of Legal Reasoning (1999) (15)
The Deceptive Nature of Rules (1994) (14)
Reconsidering the Relationship among Voluntary Acts, Strict Liability, and Negligence in Criminal Law (1990) (14)
Causation and corrective justice: Does tort law make sense? (1987) (14)
Consent Does Not Require Communication: A Reply to Dougherty (2016) (13)
Unified Excuse of Preemptive Self-Protection (1999) (13)
“Moore or Less” Causation and Responsibility (2012) (12)
WHAT IS FREEDOM OF ASSOCIATION, AND WHAT IS ITS DENIAL? (2008) (12)
WHAT ARE CONSTITUTIONS, AND WHAT SHOULD (AND CAN) THEY DO? (2010) (12)
Originalism, the Why and the What (2013) (12)
Retributivism and the inadvertent punishment of the innocent (1983) (12)
Common Law Theory: Judges as Rule Makers (2007) (11)
Reflections on Crime and Culpability (2018) (11)
Danger: The Ethics of Preemptive Action (2011) (11)
Rules of Recognition, Constitutional Controversies, and the Dizzying Dependence of Law on Acceptance (2008) (11)
Fair Equality of Opportunity: John Rawls’ (Best) Forgotten Principle (1985) (11)
The Means Principle (2014) (10)
Simple-Minded Originalism (2008) (10)
Reports of the Nondelegation Doctrine's Death Are Greatly Exaggerated (2003) (10)
Teaching Thinking in Tulsa. (1984) (9)
Trouble on Track Two: Incidental Regulations of Speech and Free Speech Theory (1993) (9)
Michael Moore and the Mysteries of Causation in the Law (2011) (9)
Can Self-Defense Justify Punishment? (2013) (8)
Self-defense, punishment, and proportionality (1991) (8)
Grutter or Otherwise: Racial Preferences and Higher Education (2004) (7)
Affirmative Action and Legislative Purpose (1998) (7)
Harm, Offense, and Morality (1994) (7)
Criminal Liability for Omissions: An Inventory of Issues (2000) (7)
Striking back at the empire: A brief survey of problems in Dworkin's theory of law (1987) (7)
Is that English You're Speaking? Some Arguments for the Primacy of Intent in Interpretation (2003) (7)
Affirmative duties and the limits of self-sacrifice (1996) (7)
Facts, Law, Exculpation, and Inculpation: Comments on Simons (2009) (7)
Banning Hate Speech and the Sticks and Stones Defense (1996) (6)
The Philosophy of Criminal Law (2001) (6)
Culpable Acts of Risk Creation (2008) (6)
THE LEGAL ENFORCEMENT OF MORALITY (1963) (6)
PLASTIC TREES AND GLADIATORS: LIBERALISM AND AESTHETIC REGULATION (2010) (5)
Is Wrongful Discrimination Really Wrong (2016) (5)
Legal Objectivity and the Illusion of Legal Principles (2008) (5)
Natural advantages and contractual justice (1984) (5)
Law and Politics: What Is their Relation? (2018) (5)
The ADL hate crime statute and the first amendment (1992) (5)
You Got What You Deserved (2013) (5)
Scheffler on the Independence of Agent-Centered Preogatives from Agent-Centered Restrictions (1987) (5)
Discrimination by Proxy (1997) (5)
Mother May I? Imposing Mandatory Prospective Rules of Statutory Interpretation (2002) (5)
Banishing the Bogey of Incommensurability (1998) (5)
Against Negligence Liability (2011) (5)
The Public/Private Distinction and Constitutional Limits on Private Power. (1993) (4)
Unknowingly Justified Actors and the Attempt/Sucess Distinction (2004) (4)
Is Judicial Review Democratic? A Comment on Harel (2003) (4)
Practical reason and statutory interpretation (1993) (4)
Causing the Conditions of One’s Defense: A Theoretical Non-problem (2013) (4)
Fancy Theories of Interpretation Aren't (1995) (4)
The Objectivity of Morality, Rules and Law: A Conceptual Map (2013) (4)
Beyond The Special Part (2011) (4)
The ten commandments of corporate social responsibility (1984) (4)
Delegation Really Running Riot (2006) (4)
Tempest in an Empty Teapot: Why the Constitution Does Not Regulate Gerrymandering (2008) (4)
Modern Equal Protection Theories: A Metatheoretical Taxonomy and Critique (1981) (4)
Of Two Minds About Law and Minds (1990) (3)
Introduction to Issues 2 and 3: Symposium on Consent in Sexual Relations (1996) (3)
What’s Inside and Outside the Law? (2012) (3)
What is the Problem of Judicial Review (2005) (3)
Other People’s Errors (2013) (3)
Freedom of Expression as a Human Right (2001) (3)
Another Look at Moral Blackmail (1984) (3)
Recipe for a Theory of Self-Defense: The Ingredients, and Some Cooking Suggestions (2013) (3)
Disagreement, Uncertainty, and Authoritative Settlement (2001) (3)
Deontological Constraints in a Consequentialist World: A Comment on Law, Economics and Morality (2011) (3)
Electronic Monitoring of Felons by Computer: Threat or Boon to Civil Liberties? (1985) (3)
Constitutional Theory and Constitutionally Optional Benefits and Burdens. (1994) (3)
The Jurisdiction of Justice: Two Conceptions of Political Morality (2003) (3)
A Higher Call: An Incredible True Story of Combat and Chivalry in the War-Torn Skies of World War II (2012) (3)
Is Freedom of Expression a Universal Right (2013) (3)
The Problem of Rules (2001) (2)
There Is No First Amendment Overbreadth (but There Are Vague First Amendment Doctrines); Prior Restraints Aren't "Prior"; and "As Applied" Challenges Seek Judicial Statutory Amendments (2011) (2)
The Coxford Lecture Of Living Trees and Dead Hands: The Interpretation of Constitutions and Constitutional Rights (2009) (2)
Law and Formalism (2005) (2)
Free Speech and 'Democratic Persuasion': A Response to Brettschneider (2013) (2)
Crime and Culpability: Acknowledgments (2009) (2)
RULES, RIGHTS, OPTIONS, AND TIME (1999) (2)
Is Policy within Law's Limited Domain? (2007) (2)
Equal Protection and the Prosecution and Conviction of Crime (2002) (2)
Confused Culpability, Contrived Causation, and the Collapse of Tort Theory (2013) (2)
Shadows In The Jungle: The Alamo Scouts Behind Japanese Lines In World War II (2009) (2)
Is There a Right of Freedom of Expression?: DEFINING HUMAN RIGHTS AND DELIMITING THE SCOPE OF FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION (2005) (2)
Legal Rules and Legal Reasoning (2000) (2)
Iconoclasts? Who, Us? A Reply to Dolinko (2012) (2)
WHEN ARE WE RIGHTFULLY AGGRIEVED? (2005) (2)
Subversive Thoughts on Freedom and the Common Good (1999) (2)
Brexit and the Future of Liberal Democracy (2017) (2)
In Defense of the Standard Picture: The Basic Challenge (2021) (2)
Free Speech and Speaker's Intent. (1995) (2)
Advanced Introduction to Legal Reasoning (2021) (2)
The Most Persuasive Frankfurt Example, and What It Shows: Or Why Determinism Is Not the Greatest Threat to Moral Responsibility (2014) (2)
Waluchows —living tree constitutionalism by Larry Alexander (2009) (2)
The Method of Text and ?: Jack Balkin’s Originalism with No Regrets (2011) (2)
Response to Critics (2010) (2)
Constitutionalism and Democracy: Understanding the Relationship (2007) (2)
Precedential Constraint, its Scope and Strength: A Brief Survey of the Possibilities and Their Merits (2011) (1)
Is There a Case for Strict Liability? (2017) (1)
Did Casey Strike Out? Following and Overruling Constitutional Precedents in the Supreme Court (2013) (1)
What Should Constitutions Do?: What Are Constitutions, and What Should (and Can) They Do? (2011) (1)
Law and Philosophy at Odds (2007) (1)
Ferzander’s Surrebuttal (2012) (1)
Criminal and Moral Responsibility and the Libet Experiments (2010) (1)
Free Speech and Speaker's Intent: A Reply to Kendrick (2015) (1)
Disparate Impact: Fairness or Efficiency? (2012) (1)
Crime and Culpability: The Essence of Culpability (2009) (1)
Takings of Property and Constitutional Serendipity (1986) (1)
Free Speech and “Democratic Persuasion” (2015) (1)
YAFFE ON ATTEMPTS (2013) (1)
“Moore or Less” Causation and Responsibility (2011) (1)
Brettschneider and ‘democratic persuasion’ (2017) (1)
The search for legislative intent (2014) (1)
How to Understand Legislatures: A Comment on Boudreau, Lupia, Mccubbins, and Rodriguez (2007) (1)
Was Dworkin an Originalist (2015) (1)
Is There a Right of Freedom of Expression?: Freedom of Expression and Regulations that Affect Messages But are Not Enacted for That Reason (2005) (1)
Still Lost in the Political Thicket(or Why I Don't Understand the Concept of Vote Dilution) (1997) (1)
Semiautonomous control for satellite servicing (1987) (1)
Redish on Freedom of Speech (2013) (1)
Judicial Activism: Clearing the Air and the Head (2015) (1)
Constitutional Rules, Constitutional Standards, and Constitutional Settlement: Marbury v. Madison and the Case for Judicial Supremacy (2003) (1)
The Mystification of Common-Law Reasoning (2008) (1)
Judicial Review and Moral Rights (2007) (1)
Fish on Academic Freedom: A Merited Assault on Nonsense, But Perhaps a Bridge Too Far (2013) (1)
Is Morality like the Tax Code (1997) (1)
Risk and Inchoate Crimes: Retribution or Prevention? (2011) (1)
Theory's a What Comes Natcherly (2020) (1)
Kent Greenawalt and the Difficulty (Impossibility?) of Religion Clause Theory (2008) (1)
Voluntary Acts: The Child/Davidson Trilemma (1992) (1)
Ignorance as a Legal Excuse (2017) (1)
Goldsworthy on Interpretation of Statutes and Constitutions: Public Meaning, Intended Meaning and the Bogey of Aggregation (2019) (1)
Book review: Interpreting the Constitution: The Supreme Court and the Process of Adjudication. By Harry H. Wellington ; On Reading the Constitution. By Laurence H. Tribe and Michael C. Dorf. (1991) (1)
The Supreme Court, Dr. Jekyll, and the Due Process of Proof (1996) (1)
Arthur Ripstein, Equality, Responsibility, and the Law (2001) (1)
Galston on Religion, Conscience, and the Case for Accommodation (2014) (1)
The Misconceived Search for the Meaning of 'Speech' in Freedom of Speech (2015) (1)
Are Smith and Hialeah Reconcilable (1996) (1)
Constitutions, Judicial Review, Moral Rights, and Democracy: Disentangling the Issues (2007) (1)
Duff on Attempts (2011) (1)
Ripstein, Reasonableness, and Objectivity (2001) (1)
Is There Such a Thing as Extraconstitutionality? The Puzzling Case of Dalton v. Specter (1995) (1)
The Province of Constitutional Law Casebook Jurisprudence Redetermined (1977) (1)
Constitutional Theories: A Taxonomy and (Implicit) Critique (2013) (1)
Expounding the Constitution: Constitutions, Judicial Review, Moral Rights, and Democracy: Disentangling the Issues (2008) (1)
Hellman, Deborah, and Moreau, Sophia, eds.Philosophical Foundations of Discrimination Law.Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. Pp. 283. $98.50 (cloth). (2015) (1)
Legal Positivism and Natural Law (2001) (1)
Reiman’s Libertarian Interpretation of Rawls’ Difference Principle (1984) (1)
The Need to Attend to Probabilities (for Purposes of Self-Defense and Other Preemptive Actions) (2016) (1)
What are Principles, and Do They Exist? (2013) (1)
Is There a Right of Freedom of Expression?: General Justifying Theories of Freedom of Expression (2005) (0)
Crime and Culpability: Only Culpability, Not Resulting Harm, Affects Desert (2009) (0)
Demystifying Legal Reasoning: Common-Law Reasoning: Deciding Cases When Prior Judicial Decisions Determine the Law (2008) (0)
Freedom of Religion and Expression (2016) (0)
Demystifying Legal Reasoning: Selected Bibliography (2008) (0)
28 Law and Philosophy at Odds (2009) (0)
Chapter 17. Constitutionalism (2008) (0)
Culpably Creating the Conditions of Justified Acts: Another Look (2020) (0)
Appreciation and Responses (2018) (0)
Demystifying Legal Reasoning: Part Ii (2006) (0)
Introduction to the 2005 Editors’ Symposium: The Meaning of Marriage (2005) (0)
Is There a Right of Freedom of Expression?: The Core of Freedom of Expression: Regulations of Conduct for the Purpose of Affecting Messages Received (2005) (0)
Reasoning from Canonical Legal Texts (2008) (0)
Reasoning from Legal Principles (2001) (0)
You Got What You Deserved (2012) (0)
"Under Color of Law”? Rogue Officials and the Real State Action Problem (2020) (0)
Is There a Right of Freedom of Expression?: The Puzzles of Governmental Purpose (2005) (0)
SOY volume 7 issue 2 Cover and Front matter (1990) (0)
Reasoning in Light of Precedent (2001) (0)
Crime and Culpability: Negligence (2009) (0)
Aggregating States of Mind: A Response to Fallon (2017) (0)
Hierarchies of Rules (2001) (0)
Hard Incompatibilism, and the Rejection of Moral Responsibility: A Skeptical Look at an Optimistic Account (2017) (0)
Connecting the Rule of Recognition and Intentionalist Interpretation: An Essay in Honor of Richard Kay (2019) (0)
What to Do in a World Full of Risks: Three Issues (2020) (0)
Lady Eldon ’ s Lace e traditional treatment of mistakes in the law (2008) (0)
The Aggregation/Culpability Puzzle (2020) (0)
Is There a Case for Strict Liability? (2017) (0)
Demystifying Legal Reasoning: Epilogue: All or Nothing (2008) (0)
Consent Does Not Require Communication: A Reply to Dougherty (2016) (0)
The Constitutional Limits of Chevron Deference: Meaning Versus Policy (2018) (0)
Demystifying Legal Reasoning: Nonintentionalist Interpretation (2008) (0)
Miscellaneous Regulations of Expression (2005) (0)
Book Review: The Rights Retained by the People: The History and Meaning of the Ninth Amendment. Edited by Randy E. Barnett. (1990) (0)
Demystifying Legal Reasoning: Infelicities of the Intended Meaning of Canonical Texts and Norms Constraining Interpretation (2008) (0)
Freedom of speech (2000) (0)
Settlement Requisites and the Nature of Authoritative Rules (2001) (0)
Book review: Liberal Neutrality. Edited by Robert E. Goodin and Andrew Reeve. (1991) (0)
Crime and Culpability: When Are Inchoate Crimes Culpable and Why? (2009) (0)
What’s Inside and Outside the Law? (2011) (0)
Is There a Right of Freedom of Expression?: The Paradoxes of Liberalism and the Failure of Theories Justifying a Right of Freedom of Expression (2005) (0)
Demystifying Legal Reasoning: Is Constitutional Interpretation Different? Why It Isn't and Is (2008) (0)
Can Self-Defense Justify Punishment? (2012) (0)
The Autonomy of Law.Robert P. George (1998) (0)
Proportionality’s Function (2021) (0)
Crime and Culpability: What a Culpability-Based Criminal Code Might Look Like (2009) (0)
Is There a Right of Freedom of Expression?: Track Three: Government Speech and Subsidies of Speech (2005) (0)
Demystifying Legal Reasoning: Ordinary Reason Applied to Law: Natural Reasoning and Deduction from Rules (2008) (0)
Other People’s Errors (2013) (0)
Iconoclasts? Who, Us? A Reply to Dolinko (2012) (0)
A Reply to Our Critics (2022) (0)
Demystifying Legal Reasoning: Common-Law Practice (2008) (0)
The Locus of Culpability (2009) (0)
Demystifying Legal Reasoning: Settling Moral Controversy (2008) (0)
Chapter Eight: Constitutionalism and Democracy: Understanding the Relation (2009) (0)
Inciting, Requesting, Provoking, or Persuading Others to Commit Crimes: The Legacy of Schenck and Abrams in Free Speech Jurisprudence (2019) (0)
Demystifying Legal Reasoning: Interpreting Statutes and Other Posited Rules (2008) (0)
Introduction to the 2014 Editors’ Symposium: Laurence Claus’s Law’s Evolution and Human Understanding (2014) (0)
Legal Theory: Low Value Speech (2018) (0)
Hart and Punishment for Negligence (2014) (0)
Reasoning by Analogy (2001) (0)
Freedom of Expression (2012) (0)
Proportionality’s Function (2021) (0)
Against Equality (2016) (0)
Crime and Culpability: Defeaters of Culpability (2009) (0)
Culpably Creating the Conditions of Justified Acts: Another Look (2020) (0)
Causing the Conditions of One’s Defense: A Theoretical Non-problem (2013) (0)
Fish on First (2021) (0)
Forthcoming in The Palgrave Handbook of Applied Ethics and the Criminal Law (2019) (0)
Retributive Justice (2018) (0)
Crime and Culpability: Criminal Law, Punishment, and Desert (2009) (0)
Introduction to the 2010 Editors’ Symposium: Freedom of Conscience: Stranger in a Secular Land (2010) (0)
Legal Positivism and Originalist Interpretation (2015) (0)
Ferzander’s Surrebuttal (2012) (0)
How to Govern Conduct (2021) (0)
Crime and Culpability: Bibliography (2009) (0)
Is There a Right of Freedom of Expression?: Index (2005) (0)
Interpretation of Rules (2001) (0)
Lex, Rules, and Some Miscellaneous Problems of Jurisprudence (2001) (0)
Is There a Right of Freedom of Expression?: Muddling Through: Freedom of Expression in the Absence of a Human Right (2005) (0)

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