• Doctoral Fellow

Alex Reiss-Sorokin

  • Doctoral Fellow
ABF/AccessLex Institute Doctoral Fellow in Legal and Higher Education
ABF Researcher

Alex Reiss-Sorokin is a doctoral candidate in the Program in History, Anthropology, Science, Technology, and Society at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her research examines how technological and policy choices around legal information structure legal practice and access to justice. Her dissertation project combines historical and ethnographic methods to trace how lawyers, professors, librarians, and technologists talk about, develop, and use legal information technologies across the United States, Israel, and Russia. Alex holds an LL.B. from Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law and an LL.M. in International Legal Studies from New York University School of Law. She also holds a BA from the Multidisciplinary Program in Humanities at Tel Aviv University with a focus on the history and philosophy of science and ideas. Alex is licensed to practice law in Israel and New York State and has worked as a criminal defense attorney in Israel.