Alex Nehrbass is a law clerk in the Litigation Department.

Mr. Nehrbass joined Debevoise in 2025. Mr. Nehrbass received his J.D. from New York University School of Law, where he was a Robert A. Katzmann Fellow and served as online editor of the NYU Journal of International Law and Politics and president of the International Law Society. While in law school, Mr. Nehrbass also served as research assistant to Professor Linda Silberman and as law clerk to Professor Jose Alvarez. Mr. Nehrbass received a B.A. with Dean's Honours List distinction from McGill University in 2019. He is fluent in French, Russian and German. 

Mr. Nehrbass is author or co-author of four peer-reviewed articles including, "Mapping Pre-Westphalia Europe: Military Alliances, Political Settlements, and Alignments During Armed Conflicts, 1528 to 1648," Research Data Journal for the Humanities and Social Sciences (2022); "The Scholar-Entrepreneurial Organization: Lessons in Building an Academic Startup," Negotiation Journal (2021); "Africa’s Miracle? Assessing Political Stability in Botswana," The African Review (2020) and "The Putinist Nation: Putin and Russian Nationalism as a Regime Strategy," International Journal of Russian Studies (2020).