Alexander Tsesis is an American constitutional scholar who holds D'Alemberte chair in constitutional law at the Florida State University College of Law. Prior to arriving at Florida State University, he held the Raymond & Mary Simon Chair in Constitutional Law at Loyola University and was a Visiting Professor of Law at George Washington University Law School from 2021 to 2023.
Alexander Tsesis is currently the general editor of the Cambridge Studies on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties and the Oxford Theoretical Foundations in Law.
Works
- Tsesis, Alexander (2002). Destructive Messages: How Hate Speech Paves the Way For Harmful Social Movements. NYU Press. ISBN 978-0-8147-8272-9.
- Tsesis, Alexander (2004). The Thirteenth Amendment and American Freedom: A Legal History. NYU Press. ISBN 978-0-8147-8276-7.
- Tsesis, Alexander (2008). We Shall Overcome: A History of Civil Rights and the Law. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-14531-1.
- Tsesis, Alexander, ed. (2010). The Promises of Liberty: The History and Contemporary Relevance of the Thirteenth Amendment. Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-14144-4.
- Tsesis, Alexander (2012). For Liberty and Equality: The Life and Times of the Declaration of Independence. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-994257-2.
- Tsesis, Alexander (2017). Constitutional Ethos: Liberal Equality for the Common Good. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-935984-4.
- Tsesis, Alexander (2020). Free Speech in the Balance. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-108-42400-4.
References
- "Alexander Tsesis | College of Law".
- "Faculty and Administration Profiles: Raymond & Mary Simon Chair in Constitutional Law and Professor of Law: School of Law: Loyola University Chicago". luc.edu. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
- Rutherglen, George (2010). "Alexander Tsesis, We Shall Overcome: A History of Civil Rights and the Law, New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2008. Pp. 384. $35.00 (ISBN 978-0300118377)". Law and History Review. 28 (3): 887–889. doi:10.1017/S073824801000057X. S2CID 145562597.
- Wolters, R. (2009). "We Shall Overcome: A History of Civil Rights and the Law. By Alexander Tsesis. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008. xii, 369 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-300-11837-7.)". Journal of American History. 95 (4): 1146–1147. doi:10.2307/27694594. JSTOR 27694594.
- Davis, Thomas J. (2009). "Alexander Tsesis . We Shall Overcome: A History of Civil Rights and the Law . New Haven : Yale University Press . 2008 . Pp. x, 369. $35.00". The American Historical Review. 114 (4): 1064–1065. doi:10.1086/ahr.114.4.1064.
- "WE SHALL OVERCOME: A HISTORY OF CIVIL RIGHTS AND THE LAW". Retrieved 1 January 2021.
- "Knowles on Tsesis, 'The Promises of Liberty: The History and Contemporary Relevance of the Thirteenth Amendment' | H-Law | H-Net". Networks.h-net.org.
- Waldrep, C. (2011). "The Promises of Liberty: The History and Contemporary Relevance of the Thirteenth Amendment". Journal of American History. 98 (3): 837–838. doi:10.1093/jahist/jar346.
- Baranowski, Brad (2016). "For Liberty and Equality: The Life and Times of the Declaration of Independence. By Alexander Tsesis. Oxford University Press. 2014. 397pp. $24.95/£16.99.: Book Review". History. 101 (345): 325–326. doi:10.1111/1468-229X.12214.
- Lafferty, Konya (2012). "For Liberty and Equality: The Life and Times of the Declaration of Independence, by Alexander Tsesis". Unbound - an Annual Review of Legal History and Rare Books. 5: 157.
- Flaherty, M. S. (2014). "For Liberty and Equality: The Life and Times of the Declaration of Independence". Journal of American History. 101 (1): 246–247. doi:10.1093/jahist/jau229.