Mark C. Alexander, JD has served as the Arthur J. Kania Dean and Professor of Law at the Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law since 2016. Alexander’s expertise includes constitutional law, criminal procedure, election law, criminal law and the First Amendment. His research focuses on the constitutional dimensions of election law and campaign reform. Alexander has authored several books on the First Amendment and constitutional law, and his scholarship has been published in leading legal journals. In 2023, he served as President of the Association of American Law Schools.
Alexander previously served as Associate Dean for Academics at Seton Hall University’s School of Law. He also served on the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board from 2010 to 2014, having been appointed by President Barack Obama. He previously clerked for Chief Judge Thelton Henderson of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California and was a litigator with Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher in San Francisco. Alexander earned a Juris Doctor from Yale University Law School and a Bachelor of Arts in Architecture from Yale University.
