Alexandra Lahav

University of Connecticut School of Law

Alexandra Lahav joined the faculty of University of Connecticut School of Law as Associate Professor of Law in August 2004. Prior to joining the faculty, she was a teaching fellow at Stanford Law School. From 1999 to 2002, Professor Lahav was associated with the firm Emery Cuti Brinckerhoff and Abady, PC (now Emery Celli Brinckerhoff and Abady) in New York, a boutique firm specializing in civil rights litigation. She litigated police misconduct, First Amendment retaliation, intellectual property and other cases, and worked on the largest civil rights class action settlement in New York history. She received her J.D., magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School and her B.A. from Brown University. Professor Lahav's scholarly interests include the political economy of the court system, procedural due process, complex litigation, civil rights and legal history. She serves as an editor on the Mass Tort Litigation Blog.