Professor

Alexander

A.

Boni-Saenz

Professor Boni-Saenz is a Professor of Law and Robins Kaplan Distinguished Scholar at the University of Minnesota Law School.  His scholarship focuses on age as a socio-legal category, legal issues in aging, and theoretical and doctrinal questions in inheritance law.  He previously taught at Chicago-Kent College of Law, where he was a Professor of Law, Associate Dean of Scholarship and Faculty Development, and Norman & Edna Freehling Scholar, as well as at the University of Chicago, where he was a Bigelow Fellow and Lecturer in Law.

Professor Boni-Saenz clerked for Judge Diane P. Wood of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.  He also practiced law as a Skadden Fellow at Legal Aid Chicago, where he created a medical-legal partnership with Erie Family Health Center for low-income seniors.

Professor Boni-Saenz earned a J.D. magna cum laude from Harvard Law School, where he was a Notes Editor on the Harvard Law Review and an Editor on the Harvard Latino Law Review.  He also holds a M.Sc. with distinction in Social Policy from the London School of Economics and an A.B. magna cum laude with highest honors in Psychology and Government from Harvard College, where he was a Truman Scholar.