Roger Alford

Roger P. Alford joined the Notre Dame Law faculty in January 2012. Professor Alford teaches and writes in a wide range of subject-matter areas, including antitrust, artificial intelligence, international trade, international arbitration and comparative law. He served as the Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General with the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice in 2025 and as the Deputy Assistant Attorney General for International Affairs from 2017-2019. He consults widely on a variety of antitrust and arbitration matters. Alford earned his B.A. with Honors from Baylor in 1985, his J.D. with Honors from New York University, and his LL.M. from Edinburgh University. Before entering the legal academy, he served as a law clerk to Judge James Buckley of the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, and Judge Richard Allison of the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands. He practiced law with Hogan & Hartson (now Hogan Lovells) in Washington, D.C. and was also a senior legal advisor to the Claims Resolution Tribunal for Dormant Activities in Zurich, Switzerland. He is Concurrent Professor at the Keough School of Global Affairs, a Faculty Fellow at the Kellogg Institute for International Studies, and a Faculty Fellow at the Nanovic Institute for European Studies.