Alexander Chen
The Founding Director of Harvard Law School’s LGBTQ+ Advocacy Clinic, Professor Chen is an award-winning lawyer who has spent two decades on the front lines of LGBTQ+ civil rights. His groundbreaking program has won landmark impact litigation settlements protecting trans women in homeless shelters, passed first-in-the-nation multiple domestic partnership ordinances, and defeated anti-trans state legislation. Chen’s work has been featured in the New York Times, The Economist, Bloomberg, Slate, the Boston Globe, and more.
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Professor Chen has published influential amicus briefs, regulatory comments, and white papers on topics including non-binary rights, intersex rights, trans sports, trans youth, prisoners’ rights, veterans’ rights, and digital harassment and cybersecurity. He is a sought-after speaker who is available for keynotes, solo talks, and panels about his personal experiences as a trans lawyer, workplace inclusion, case law, legal theory, movement history, and civil rights. CLE programming is possible upon request.
‘My inability to take care of myself was impacting my ability to be more expansive in the thinking of my work’
One of three professors chosen by the 2023 Harvard Law School graduating class to deliver the prestigious “Last Lecture,” Chen offered Living a Good Life as a Socially Conscious Lawyer.
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