One of Professor Greg Alexander's central contributions to property scholarship is his emphasis on the multiple understandings of private property in the American legal tradition.
Private property, he underscored in Commodity & Propriety: Competing Visions of Property in American Legal Thought 1776-1970, has never been understood by American [...]
Greg Alexander is a towering figure in the legal academy. His work, over a period of forty years, has illuminated the most fundamental issues in property law and theory. It
has transformed the field and inspired scholars in the United States and abroad. [...]
Greg Alexander's monumental contributions to our understanding of property and property law are unequaled. He is also a mensch and that comes through loud and clear in his
work. His recent book, Property and Human Flourishing, develops a quasi-Aristotelian theory of property that focuses our attention on the ways property law protects [...]
This Essay explores, and analyzes the long-term effects of, the turn in the 1980s towards a more communitarian-oriented analysis of planned communities. It shows that until
late in the twentieth century property law commentators grounded the rule-making powers of condominiums and homeowners associations in the alleged consent of individual [...]
In the age of the Cambridge Analytica/Facebook scandal and sundry other data breaches at Under Armour, Target, and Best Buy, the issue of security and privacy in consumer data
has become increasingly important. For much of the modern era, the development of technology has gone relatively unchecked, with the United States having ceded much [...]
Greg Alexander has made a powerful case that an owner of property in a free and democratic society will be required from time to time to provide resources, in ways appropriate
to that owner, to support the development of other persons' human capabilities. In this essay, I focus attention on legal relationships epitomizing Alexander's human [...]
This Essay explores the dialectic between stability and dynamism in property, inspired by the work of Gregory Alexander. Its focus is inheritance law and the conflicting commitments
between the past and the present. Inheritance contributes an added layer of complexity to the familiar dialectic. [...]
In November 2016, the City of Vancouver passed its "Vacancy Tax By-law." The law requires homeowners to submit a property status declaration each year to the City, revealing
the uses they are making of their property. An owner whose property is not rented or in use for at least 6 months a year is subject to a vacancy tax. [...]
Professor Alexander's final monograph is an exploration of what he has termed "human flourishing theory." Human flourishing theory holds that the ownership of private property
carries with it obligations to foster human flourishing-whether of individual neighbours or local communities. [...]
Few scholars have argued as eloquently as Gregory Alexander for the normative force of social obligation in American property law and for a broader understanding of property
as inherently relational. The idea that mutual regard for the ability of each person to have meaningful life choices means that ownership entails duties to others [...]
