Alex Kreit
Assistant Professor of Law
J.D., University of Pennsylvania Law School,
cum laude
B.A., Hampshire College
Telephone: 619.374.6960
Email: akreit@tjsl.edu
After graduating from law school, where he received the Fred G. Leebron Memorial Prize for best paper in the field of constitutional law, Professor Kreit clerked for the Honorable M. Blane Michael on the U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals. He then worked as an associate at Morrison & Foerster in San Francisco where his practice focused on securities and appellate litigation. While at Morrison, he co-authored the amicus curiae brief of Students for Sensible Drug Policy in the U.S. Supreme Court case Morse v. Frederick (better known as the "Bong Hits 4 Jesus" student free speech case) and was a member of the litigation team for the Oakland Cannabis Buyers' Cooperative in its appeal before the Ninth Circuit. Professor Kreit's articles have been published in the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, the West Virginia Law Review, and the William Mitchell Law Review (with co-author Aaron Marcus). His current research interests include group criminality, constitutional constraints on substantive criminal law, and the relationship between structural rules of constitutional adjudication and constitutional law.
Scholarship
Vicarious Criminal Liability and the Constitutional Dimension of Pinkerton, 57 Am. U. L. Rev. 585 (2008)
Rights, Rules, and Raich, 108 W. Va. L. Rev. 705 (2006)
Raich, Health Care, and the Commerce Clause, 31 Wm. Mitchell L. Rev. 957 (2005) (with Aaron Marcus)
Why is Congress Still Regulating Noncommercial Activity?, 28 Harv. J. L. & Pub. Pol'y 169 (2004)
Comment, The Future of Medical Marijuana: Should the States Grow Their Own?, 151 U. Pa. L. Rev. 1787 (2003)
Subjects Include:
Criminal Law and Property