Alexandra Lahav


Alexandra Devorah Lahav is an American lawyer and academic specializing in litigation and civil procedure. She is the Anthony W. and Lulu C. Wang Professor of Law at Cornell Law School.

Career

Lahav studied history and graduated from Brown University with honors in 1993. She then studied at Harvard Law School, where she earned her J.D. magna cum laude. During law school, she worked as a summer associate at Debevoise & Plimpton, She then clerked for Justice Alan B. Handler on the Supreme Court of New Jersey for a year. In 1999, she joined Emery Cuty Brinckerhoff & Abady, a boutique litigation law firm in New York City. She has previously been selected as a Radcliffe fellow. In 2019, she won the Civil Justice Scholarship Award for her book, In Praise of Litigation.

Selected works

Books

Journal Articles