Alexander Tsesis is an American constitutional scholar who holds D’Alemberte chair in constitutional law at the Florida State University College of Law.^[1] Prior to arriving at Florida State University, he held the Raymond & Mary Simon Chair in Constitutional Law at Loyola University^[2] and was a Visiting Professor of Law at George Washington University Law School from 2021-2023.

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.^[3][4][5][6]
• 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.^[7][8]
• 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.^[9][10][11]
• 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.