Alexander Maine

Dr Alexander Maine is Senior Lecturer at The City Law School and a specialist expert in Gender, Sexuality and the Law and Family Law.

Alexander’s research focuses on Family Law and Gender, Sexuality and Law, in particular relationship recognition, and the effect of law on the family life of LGBTQ people. His research has been published in leading journals including the Child and Family Law Quarterly, Sexualities, the Journal of Criminal Law, and he is Reviews Editor of the International Journal of Gender, Sexuality and Law. In 2022, Alexander and Professor Robin West (Georgetown University) were appointed co-editors of the Gender and the Law research handbook series, published by Edward Elgar.

He is co-editor of the Research Handbook on Gender, Sexuality and Law (Edward Elgar, 2020) and Gender, Sexuality and Law: A Textbook (2024), the first student-facing textbook on the topic.