Texas A&M University School of Law announced recently that Lisa Alexander, the co-director of the law school’s real estate and community development law program, has received a Texas A&M University Presidential Impact Fellows award.
Alexander is one of 21 recipients of the second annual Presidential Impact Fellows award, which was launched by the university last year to recognize faculty members in the Texas A&M system who “embrace grand challenges, commit to core values and embody the unique ‘can-do’ spirit that distinguished Texas Aggies.”
Each award recipient is selected by her dean – in Alexander’s case, Dean Robert Ahdieh – and confirmed by academic leadership.
According to the law school’s announcement, Alexander plans to use her Presidential Impact Fellow award to complete law review articles and her first book. She is a recognized expert on issues relating to housing and urban community development, business and social entrepreneurship and local government and property law.
One area of Alexander’s research focuses on how tiny homes can ameliorate homelessness. She has been invited by the Citizen Homeless Commission of Dallas and the American College of Real Estate Lawyers to present her findings on this topic.
The Texas A&M law professor says in the announcement that her research and teaching highlight the role private law plays in urban redevelopment struggles and how to use law to more equitably distribute the benefits of urban revitalization.
Alexander, who received her law degree from Columbia, is a past Summer Honors program attorney at the U.S. Department of Justice in the Civil Rights Division, Housing Section; an Equal Justice Works Fellow; an Earl Warren Civil Rights Scholar; and a Coro Fellow in Public Affairs.
Before joining the Texas A&M faculty, Alexander was an assistant professor of law and associate professor of law at the University of Wisconsin Law School from 2006 to 2016.