Department of Political Science
University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown
450 Schoolhouse Road
Johnstown, Pennsylvania 15904
(814) 269-2983 (office) 2990 (division secretary)
(814) 269-7255 (FAX)
 Email: zander@pitt.edu
 Web:  http://faculty.upj.pitt.edu/jalexander

Education:      

    BA (History), MPA, PhD (Political Science), University of Colorado, Boulder.

Academic Position:    

    Professor of Political Science - teaching fields include American Constitutional Law, Civil Liberties/First Amendment, Media and Law,
    National Policymaking/Federal Budget Process, Constitutional Federalism/Urban Politics, American Government and Politics.

Selected Publications  [SSRN indicates file sharing by permission with the online archive of the Social Science Research Network]

    Publishing Peter Pindar: Production, Profits, and Piracy in Georgian Satire, 112 Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America (forthcoming 2018).

    Chasing Echoes of Content Exceptionalism in Copyright: Recent Swarm Cases, 17 Chicago-Kent Journal of Intellectual Property (forthcoming Fall 2017). [SSRN]

    Libel and Copyright in the Satire of Peter Pindar, 64 Notes and Queries 497(September 2017). [SSRN]

    Evil Angel Eulogy: Reflections on the Passing of the Obscenity Defense in Copyright, 20  Journal of Intellectual Property Law 209 (Spring 2013). [SSRN]

    Richardson and Copyright, 52 Notes and Queries 219 (2012). [SSRN]

    Roth at Fifty: Reconsidering the Common Law Antecedents of American Obscenity Doctrine, 41 John Marshall Law Review 393 (2008) [SSRN]

    Kingsley International Pictures v. Board of Regents, in Encyclopedia of the First Amendment (ed. David Hudson, CQ Press 2009).

    The Maturing of a Film Genre in an Era of Relaxing Standards of Obscenity: Freeze Me as a Rape-Revenge Film, 36 Senses of Cinema (2005). [SSRN]

    Obscenity, Pornography, and the Law in Japan: Reconsidering Oshima's In the Realm of the Senses, 4  Asian-Pacific Law and Public Policy Journal 148 (2003). [SSRN]

    Dillon's Rule Under the Burger Court: The Municipal Liability Cases, 18 Publius, The Journal of Federalism 127 (1988).

    Congressional Preemption of State Policy: Interpreting the Garcia Decision, 16 Policy Studies Journal 479 (1988).

    State Sovereignty in the Federal System: Constitutional Protections Under the Tenth and Eleventh Amendments, 16 Publius, The Journal of Federalism 1 (1986).

Other Works:

    Sentiment and Aesthetics in Victorian Photography: The Child Portraits of C. L. Dodgson, 17 The Carrollian, The Lewis Carroll Journal 1-67 (2006). (entire issue).  [SSRN]

    Arthur James Moxham, in 16 American National Biography 45  (ed. John A. Garrity and Mark C. Carnes, Oxford UP 1999).

    Technological Innovation in Steel Fabrication: Marketing and Production Considerations in the Development of the Johnson Rail, 20 Business and Economic History, Second Series, 210 (1991).

    Technological Innovation in Early Street Railways: The Johnson Rail in Retrospective, 164 Railroad History 64 (1991).

    Jaybird; A. J. Moxham and the Manufacture of the Johnson Rail (Johnstown Area Heritage Association, 1991). [accessible on-line via this website]

    The Johnson Steel Street Rail Company; A Project Report (Historic American Engineering Record/America's Industrial Heritage Project,1988).

    A Case Study of Technological Innovation and Transfer: The Johnson Steel Rail Company 1883-1888 (National Center for Excellence in Metallurgical Technology/MTI,1988).