Gregory S. Alexander

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Gregory S. Alexander
Education University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (BA)
Northwestern University (JD)
OccupationLaw professor

Gregory S. Alexander is an American legal scholar. He currently serves as the A. Robert Noll Professor of Law at Cornell Law School. [1] He authored several books. [2]

Biography

Alexander received an undergraduate degree at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, graduating in 1970. [2] In 1973, he graduated from Northwestern University School of Law with a J.D. degree. [2] From 1974-75, he was a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Chicago. [3] After graduating, Alexander clerked on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, after which he studied at the University of Chicago Law School as a Bigelow Fellow. [2]

Alexander began teaching at the University of Georgia School of Law after studying as a Bigelow Fellow. In 1985, Alexander moved to Cornell Law School. [2]

In 1997, Alexander received the American Publishers Association's 1997 Best Book of the Year in Law award for his work, Commodity and Propriety. [2]

Alexander is a member of the American Law Institute, [4] American Society for Legal History, Law & Society Association, and Order of the Coif. [3]

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