Michèle Alexandre
 

Assistant Professor of Law

Teaching interests: Property; Decedents Estates; Critical Race Theory; Feminist Legal Theory; International Women's Human Rights; International Law.

Education:  J.D., 2000, Harvard Law School; B.A., Colgate University.

Experience:  2003-Present, Assistant Professor of Law, Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law; 2006-2007 Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Baltimore School of Law;  Recipient of Fulbright Fellowship to Trinidad in spring 2004; 2002-2003, Civil Rights Attorney, Chestnut Sanders Sanders Pettaway Campbell & Albright L.L.C., Selma, AL; Adjunct Professor, Wallace Community College of Selma; 2001-2002, Associate in Corporate Real Estate Department, Debevoise & Plimpton, New York; 2000-2001, Law Clerk, Judge John P. Fullam, U.S. Eastern District Court of Pennsylvania; Recipient of Watson Fellowship in 1996-1997.

Admitted: New York, United District Court Southern District of New York, Alabama.

Achievements/Publications:

Law Review Publications:

Dance Halls, Masquerades, Body Protest and The Law: The Female Body as a Redemptive Tool Against Trinidad’s Gender-Biased Laws, 13 Duke J. of Gender L. & Pol'y 177 (This article is also reproduced in the Caribbean Review of Gender Studies, which is an online journal published by the University of West Indies’ Center for Gender Studies).

Big Love: Is Feminist Polygamy an Oxymoron or a True Possibility? 18 Hastings Women's L.J. 3 (2007)

Individual Rights and Civil Liberties in Post-911 American Immigration Practices: Do Human Rights Still Matter? Oxford Round Table’s Forum on Public Policy, Volume 2, Number 2, 2006

 At the Intersection of Post-911 Immigration Practices and Domestic Policies: Can Katrina Serve as a catalyst for Change? 26 Chicana/o-Latina/o L. Rev. 155 (2006)

 Love Don't Live Here Anymore: Economic Incentives for More Equitable Models of Urban Redevelopment (forthcoming in the Boston College Environmental Affairs Law Review in December 2007)

Lessons from Islamic Law: A Case for Expanding the American Conception of Surviving Spouse So As to Include De Facto Polygamous Spouses (forthcoming in the Washington and Lee Law Review).

BOOK CHAPTER

Black Venus Hottentot Revisited: Gratuitous Use of Black Women’s Bodies and the Role of Race and Gender in Campus and Academic Reactions, (forthcoming book chapter in RACE TO INJUSTICE: LESSONS LEARNED FROM THE DUKE UNIVERSITY LACROSSE PLAYERS’ RAPE CASE, Carolina Academic Press). 

Email:  malxndr2@memphis.edu