SCHOOL OF LAW

Alexandra W Albright

Associate Dean for Administrative Services
Senior Lecturer

JD University of Texas at Austin
BA The University of the South

Alex Wilson Albright is a Senior Lecturer and Associate Dean at the University of Texas School of Law, where she teaches Texas Civil Procedure and oversees technology and facilities. She has been a member of the Texas Supreme Court Advisory Committee on Court Rules since 1993, and played a key role in redrafting the discovery rules that went into effect in January 1999. She is the author of two casebooks, one on pretrial procedure and the other on trial and appellate procedure. She is also co-author of the Handbook on Texas Discovery Practice, part of West's Texas Practice Series. She has written numerous articles, including Texas Discovery Privileges: A Fool's Game?, 70 Tex. L. Rev. 781 (1992), recognized by the Texas Bar Foundation as the Outstanding Law Review Article for 1991-92, and Personal Jurisdiction: A Confused and Inappropriate Substitute for Forum Non Conveniens, 71 Tex. L. Rev. 351 (1992).

Professor Albright is an honors graduate of the University of the South and the University of Texas School of Law. She was a law clerk for Judge Thomas M. Reavley of the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals immediately after graduation from law school. She was an associate, then a partner at the firm of Thompson & Knight in Dallas, Texas, where she had a general civil trial and appellate practice. She has written numerous briefs to the Texas Supreme Court, including the brief cited by Justice Lloyd Doggett in Ruiz v. Conoco, 868 S.W.2d 752, 766 (Tex. 1993), as being responsible for changing the votes of two justices on motion for rehearing. She is an active community volunteer, has three sons, and she likes to cycle, run, and compete in sprint distance triathlons.