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Education
L.L.M. Harvard University Law School
J.D. University of Connecticut School of Law
B.A. Franklin and Marshall College
Alex Geisinger’s
expertise includes environmental law, torts, law and social
norms and behavioral law and economics.
Before receiving his L.L.M. from Harvard Law School, Professor
Geisinger earned his J.D. with high honors from the University
of Connecticut School of Law. There, Professor Geisinger earned
numerous honors, including the Connecticut Bar Association Award
for Scholarship in Real Property and Environmental Law and the
Milton Hurwitz Award and American Jurisprudence Awards for achievement
in property and in torts.
Before coming to Drexel,
he served as associate dean and professor of law at Valparaiso
University School of Law. He has also been
a visiting professor at William and Mary Law School and Northwestern
University School of Law. Prior to teaching, he worked as an
associate with Day, Berry & Howard in Hartford, Conn.
Professor Geisinger’s scholarship covers theories of social
norms and the law and topics in environmental law and regulation.
Representative articles include “Rational Choice, Reputation
and Human Rights Treaties,” (with M. Stein) in the Michigan
Law Review, “A Belief Change Theory of Expressive Law,” in
the Iowa Law Review, and “Rethinking Risk-Based Environmental
Cleanup,” in the Indiana Law Journal.
A co-founder and former chair of the New Law Professors Section
of the Association of American Law Schools, he has also served
as an advisor to the Uniform Environmental Covenant Drafting
Committee of the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform
State Laws.
He served on the board of the Indiana Bar Foundation and also
on the Curriculum Committee of the American Bar Association Section
on Legal Education.
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