Alex Nunn is a Ph.D. in Law candidate at Yale. In general, his research focuses on evidence and proof, exploring how practice, procedure, and the allocation of decisionmaking authority in the courtroom affect decisional accuracy, efficiency, and legitimacy.
His scholarship has been featured or is forthcoming in the Virginia Law Review, Texas Law Review, Cornell Law Review, Vanderbilt Law Review, Emory Law Journal, and the peer-reviewed International Journal of Evidence and Proof.
Alex currently serves as an Assistant Professor at the University of Arkansas School of Law. There, in both 2019 and 2020, he received the received the Lewis E. Epley, Jr. Professor of the Year Award for Excellence in Teaching. Alex additionally serves as the co-host of Excited Utterance, a podcast focusing on scholarship in evidence and proof. He is a member of the executive committee for the AALS Evidence Section and the programming committee for the Evidence Summer Workshop.
Before coming to Yale, Alex clerked on the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. He is a graduate of Vanderbilt Law School, where he was Editor-in-Chief of the Vanderbilt Law Review.