Alex Kreit is an Assistant Professor and Director of the Center on Addiction Law & Policy at the Northern Kentucky University Salmon P. Chase College of Law. He is author of the casebooks Criminal Law in Focus (Aspen 2021) and Illegal Drug and Marijuana Law (Carolina Academic Press, 2019), and co-author of the casebook Marijuana Law and Policy (Carolina Academic Press 2020, with Douglas A. Berman) and the annually updated reference book Drug Abuse and the Law Sourcebook (Thomson Reuters, with Gerald F. Uelmen). Before entering academia, Alex clerked for the Honorable M. Blane Michael on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and worked as an associate at Morrison & Foerster in San Francisco. He was then faculty member at Thomas Jefferson School of Law, where he taught until joining the faculty at Chase. Alex continues to practice law, representing indigent defendants in California state criminal appeals by court appointment.
