Janet Cooper Alexander
Frederick I. Richman Professor of Law

Publications & Cases

Recent Publications

Janet Cooper Alexander, To Skin a Cat: Qui Tam Actions as a State Legislative Response to Concepcion, Stanford Public Law Workign Paper No. 2260489, 46 University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform, forthcoming 2013.
Janet Cooper Alexander, To Skin a Cat: Qui Tam Actions as a State Legislative Response to Concepcion (May 3, 2013). University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform, Vol. 46, No. 4, 2013.
Janet Cooper Alexander, The Law-Free Zone and Back Again, 2013 University of Illinois Law Review 551 (2013).
Janet Cooper Alexander, The Law-Free Zone and Back Again, 2013 University of Illinois Law Review __ (forthcoming 2013).
Janet Cooper Alexander, Potential Legislative Responses to Concepción, University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform __ (forthcoming 2013).
Janet Cooper Alexander, Military Commissions: A Place Outside Law's Reach, 56 Saint Louis University Law Journal 1115 (2012).
Janet Cooper Alexander, John Yoo's War Powers: The Law Review and the World, 100 California Law Review 331 (2012).
Janet Cooper Alexander, Jurisdiction-Stripping in a Time of Terror, 95 Calif L. Rev 1193 (2007).
Janet Cooper Alexander, Jurisdiction-Stripping in the War on Terrorism, 2 Stanford Journal of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties 259 (2006).
Janet Cooper Alexander, Procedural Design and Terror Victim Compensation, 53 DePaul Law Review 627-718 (Winter 2003).
Janet Cooper Alexander and Ronald A. Fein, The History and Structure of the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund, 53 DePaul Law Review 692 (2003).
Janet Cooper Alexander, Class Actions for Consumer Protection, in, Judicial Conference of Spain and National Institute of Consumers/Justicia and Proteccion de Los Consumidores, 2000.
Janet Cooper Alexander, An Introduction to Class Action Procedure in the United States, Presented Conference: Debates over Group Litigation in Comparative Perspective, Geneva, Switzerland, July 21-22, 2000.
Janet Cooper Alexander, The Administration of Justice in Commercial Disputes: Developments in the United States, in, The Administration of Justice in Commercial Disputes. Canadian Institute for the Administration of Justice. Montréal : Thémis, 1999.
Janet Cooper Alexander, Contingent Fees and Class Actions, 47 DePaul Law Review 347-361 (1998).
Janet Cooper Alexander, Methodology and the Merits, American Bar Association, Torts and Insurance Practice Section, (Annual Meeting program materials), 1997.
Janet Cooper Alexander, The Agency Problem: Some Procedural Suggestions, 41 N.Y.L.S. L.Rev. 359 (1997).
Janet Cooper Alexander, Barbara A. Babcock, Richard T. Ford, Thomas Grey, Linda A. Mabry, Miguel Mendez, Deborah L. Rhode, and William L. Taylor, Brief Amicus Curiae, in COALITION FOR ECONOMIC EQUITY, et al. v. PETE WILSON, et al., U.S. D.C. for the Northern District of California, NO. C 96 4024 TEH (20 December 1996).
Janet Cooper Alexander, The Value of Bad News in Securities Class Actions, Corporate Practice Commentator (1996).
Janet Cooper Alexander, Rethinking Damages in Securities Class Actions, 30 Securities Law Review 351-401 (1996).

jca@stanford.edu

650 723.2892

Curriculum Vitae

Education:

BA (with distinction) Swarthmore College 1968
MA (English) Stanford University 1973
Doctoral studies (English) Stanford University 1968-71
JD University of California Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall) 1978

Expertise:

Civil Procedure and Litigation
Complex Litigation
Constitutional Law
Federal Courts
Federal Litigation
International and National Security (Terrorism, Law of Force, and Related Topics)
The Supreme Court