Janet Cooper Alexander

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Janet Cooper Alexander (born 1946) is an American lawyer and law professor. She is the Frederick I. Richman Professor of Law Emerita at Stanford Law School. She earned a BA in English from Swarthmore College in 1968, an MA in English from Stanford University in 1973, and a JD from UC Berkeley School of Law in 1978. She clerked for Judge Shirley M. Hufstedler on the Ninth Circuit (1978–79) and for Justice Thurgood Marshall on the U.S. Supreme Court (1979–80). She practiced law at Califano, Ross & Heineman in Washington, D.C. (1980–1982) and then at Morrison & Foerster in San Francisco (1982–1987), where she became a partner. She joined Stanford Law School as an associate professor in 1987, became a full professor in 1994, and has held the Frederick I. Richman chair since 2002. Her work focuses on constitutional law, contract law, and class actions.