As noted here ("Professor Gregory S. Alexander to Be Honored with Annual Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Prize"), the William and Mary Law School has announced that Cornell lawprof Gregory Alexander will be awarded the Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Prize at the 20th edition of the B-K Property Rights Conference, October 26-27, 2023, in Williamsburg, Virginia.
The Conference agenda and speaker list has not yet been released (but we know the organizers are getting close!), but we can assure you that the topics of discussion will be of the usual high quality and interest.
Takings and property mavens already likely know about Professor Alexander's lifetime of scholarship on property law, but here's a reminder:
An internationally renowned expert in property law and theory, Gregory Alexander, has taught at Cornell Law School since 1985.After graduating from Northwestern University School of Law, Alexander clerked on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. He then spent a year as a Bigelow Fellow at the University of Chicago Law School. He subsequently became a professor at the University of Georgia School of Law, remaining there until joining the Cornell faculty.
Among Alexander’s many professional experiences, he has been a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Science, in Palo Alto, California and at the Max-Planck-Institutes for Comparative Law, in Hamburg and Heidelberg, Germany. He also has taught at UCLA, Virginia, and Harvard Law Schools, and was the Herbert Smith Distinguished Visiting Fellow at Cambridge University.
Alexander is a prolific and recognized writer, the winner of the American Publishers Association's 1997 Best Book of the Year in Law award for his work, “Commodity and Propriety.” His other books include “The Global Debate Over Constitutional Property: Lessons for American Takings Jurisprudence” (Chicago), “Community & Property” (with Eduardo Peñalver) (Oxford), and “Properties of Property” (with Hanoch Dagan) (Aspen). His most recent book is “An Introduction to Property Theory” (with Eduardo Peñalver) (Cambridge).
Be sure to make your plans to join us in the fall. And stay tuned here for more details.
