Charles M. Sparacio Professor of Law. B.A., Yale University
(magna cum laude); J.D., St. John's University (cum laude); LL.M.,
J.S.D., Columbia University.
As a law student at St. John's, Professor Alexander was the
Editor-in-Chief of the Law Review. Before joining the St. John's
faculty in 1977, he practiced law in the litigation department of
Mudge Rose Guthrie & Alexander in New York. He currently
teaches Evidence, Civil Procedure and New York Practice.
He is co-author of the treatise Evidence in New York State and
Federal Courts (Thomson/West). In addition to annual updates for
the Evidence treatise, other recent publications include the
Practice Commentaries on the New York Civil Practice Law and Rules
in eleven volumes of McKinney's Consolidated Laws of New York
Annotated. He is a frequent lecturer for judges and bar
groups on the topics of evidence and civil procedure, including the
2006 U.S. Judicial Conference of the Second Circuit, the 2005 and
2006 Winter Bench and Bar Conferences of the Federal Bar Council,
and the annual seminars of the New York State Judicial Institute
for Newly-Elected and Newly-Appointed Judges.
Professor Alexander is a member of the Civil Practice Advisory
Committee of the New York Office of Court Administration. He
has also served as a member of the New York City Mayor's
Advisory Committee on the Judiciary and the Continuing Legal
Education Board of the State of New York. He served as Interim Dean
of the School of Law during the 1999-2000 academic year. The
students of the Law School named him "Professor of the Year" in
1990, 1996, 2003, 2004, and 2007. He was awarded the
President's Medal of St. John's University in 2000, and
the St. John's Law Alumni Association's 2007 Dean John J.
Murphy Award for Distinguished Service to the Public, the
Profession and the Rule of Law.
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