Christian Alexander enjoys helping clients navigate the complex and nuanced interactions between federal, state, local, and tribal law to build healthy, equitable, thriving communities.
Christian’s practice includes a focus on assisting public and private entities in navigating the regulatory, property, and contractual issues necessary to develop and operate public trnsportation and public infrastructure projects, particularly passenger rail systems and rail-related infrastructure. He has significant administrative law experience representing state and local governments before federal boards and administrations, including the Surface Transportation Board, Federal Transit Administration, Federal Railroad Administration, Federal Aviation Administration, and state regulatory bodies, as well as litigation experience before federal courts and quasi-judicial regulatory entities. His experience in transportation infrastructure and operations also extends to land acquisition and use, contracting, tenancy and concessionaire issues, labor, civil rights, and funding issues. He has worked on both transit-oriented development and rails-to-trails projects.
Christian also has experience with legal issues involving environmental regulation, energy, and land use. His work includes advising clients on federal environmental regulatory processes for public projects and use of public lands. His background includes work on state and federal energy regulation and policy issues. Christian holds a master’s degree in city and regional planning and a graduate certificate in renewable and sustainable energy studies.
Christian assists tribal governments regarding issues of tribal sovereignty and governance, and the implications for projects and people in Indian Country. In law school, he assisted in researching climate change mitigation and adaptation on tribal lands and helped initiate a social-entrepreneurial effort to support small-scale renewable energy accessibility on the Navajo Nation. Christian is a proud member of the Hopland Band of Pomo Indians of Northern California.
