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Frank S. Alexander

Professor of Law

Frank S. Alexander received his undergraduate degree from the University of North Carolina, where he was a Morehead scholar and then earned both a law degree and a Master of Theological Studies degree from Harvard University.

Professor Alexander founded the Center for the Study of Law and Religion in 1982. He also is the Director of the Project on Affordable Housing and Community Development. In recent years his work has focused on affordable housing, urban redevelopment and state and local government law. The author of Georgia Real Estate Finance and Foreclosure Law (4th edition, 2004), and co-editor with Professor John Witte Jr. of The Teachings of Modern Christianity on Law, Politics and Human Nature (2006) and The Weightier Matters of the Law: Essays on Law and Religion (1988), Professor Alexander has published more than thirty other articles in real estate finance, law and theology, and state and local government law. Professor Alexander served as a Fellow of the Carter Center of Emory University from 1993-1996, and as a Commissioner of the State Housing Trust Fund for the Homeless from 1994-1998.

Professor Alexander teaches property, real estate finance, state and local government law, law and theology, and federal housing policies and homelessness. He has received the Student Bar Association Outstanding Professor Award (2004), the Ben F. Johnson Award for Excellence in Teaching (1998), the Emory Williams Award for Distinguished Teaching in Professional Education (1991), Black Law Student Association Award for Professor of the Year (1999-2000), and the Student Bar Association Award as the Professor Who Best Exemplifies the Ideals of the Legal Profession (on eight occasions).   In 2005-06 Professor Alexander served as Interim Dean of the Law School.

Professor of Law. B.A., University of North Carolina, 1973; J.D. and M.T.S., Harvard University, 1978.