Peter Alexander

Visiting Professor of Law

Office Number: 3116 Eck Hall of Law
Telephone: 574.631.3771
Fax: 574.631.4197
Email: Peter.Alexander.61@nd.edu
Staff Assistant: Debi McGuigan-Jones

Peter C. Alexander, a Professor of Law at the Southern Illinois University School of Law in Carbondale, Illinois, is a Visiting Professor at Notre Dame Law School during the fall 2009 semester. Alexander’s teaching interests are evidence, trial practice, and bankruptcy

Alexander joined the SIU faculty in 2003, and served as its Dean from 2003 until 2009. Prior to joining the Southern Illinois faculty, Professor Alexander was on the faculty of The Dickinson School of Law of The Pennsylvania State University for eleven years. Before the joining the Penn State Dickinson faculty, Dean Alexander was in private practice in Champaign, Illinois for seven years.

Professor Alexander also served as a law clerk to the Hon. Larry L. Lessen, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge for the Central District of Illinois, and the Hon. Harold A. Baker, U.S. District Judge for the Central District of Illinois. Dean Alexander teaches in the areas of bankruptcy law, evidence, and trial practice. He is a member of the American Bar Association and the Illinois State Bar Association and a Fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy and American Bar Foundation.