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Roger P. Alford, LL.M.
Professor of Law

Office: School of Law (SOL)
E-mail: roger.alford@pepperdine.edu

• LL.M., Edinburgh University, 1992, magna cum laude
• J.D., New York University, 1991, with honors
• M. Div., Southern Seminary, 1988
• B.A., Baylor University, 1985, with honors

Prior to joining the faculty in 2000, Professor Alford served as a senior legal advisor with the Claims Resolution Tribunal for Dormant Accounts in Switzerland, the tribunal established by the Volcker Commission to resolve claims to Holocaust-era dormant Swiss bank accounts. From 1995 to 1999, he was in private practice with Hogan & Hartson, Washington, D.C. He clerked for the Honorable James L. Buckley, U.S. Court of Appeals, District of Columbia (1994-95), and the Honorable Richard C. Allison, Iran-United States Claims Tribunal, in The Hague, Netherlands (1992-94).

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Selected Works:

• The Nonuse of Constitutional Comparativism by Inferior Courts, 76 FORDHAM L. REV. (forthcoming).
• Free Speech and the Case for Constitutional Exceptionalism, 106 MICH. L. REV. 1071 (2008) (book review).
• Lower Courts and Constitutional Comparativism, 77 FORDHAM L. REV. 647 (2008) (symposium issue).
• Arbitrating Human Rights, 83 NOTRE DAME L. REV. 505 (2008).
• The Nobel Effect: Nobel Peace Prize Laureates as International Norm Entrepreneurs, 49 VA. J. INT'L L. 61 (2008).
• Book Review (reviewing Tai-Heng Cheng, STATE SUCCESSION AND COMMERCIAL OBLIGATIONS), 23 ARBITRATION INT'L 511 (2007).
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