Peter C. Alexander
Dean & Professor of Law

Biography

Peter C. Alexander is the Dean and Professor of Law at the Southern Illinois University School of Law in Carbondale, Illinois. He joined the SIU faculty in 2003, after serving on the faculty of The Dickinson School of Law of The Pennsylvania State University for eleven years. Prior to the joining the Penn State Dickinson faculty, Dean Alexander was in private practice in Champaign, Illinois for seven years. Dean 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 2002 inductee into the American College of Bankruptcy. He also serves on the Advisory Board of the American Bankruptcy Institute Law Review.