Professor Gregory S. Alexander is an internationally renowned expert in property law theory and has been teaching at Cornell Law School since 1985. He graduated from Northwestern University School of Law and subsequently clerked for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. As a Bigelow Fellow at the University of Chicago Law School, Alexander began his academic career which later included a professorship at the University of Georgia School of Law before returning to Cornell. He has been a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Science in Palo Alto, California, and has collaborated with the Max-Planck-Institute for Comparative Law in Hamburg and Heidelberg, Germany. He has taught at various prestigious institutions including UCLA, the University of Virginia, and Harvard Law Schools, and served as a Herbert Smith Distinguished Visiting Fellow at Cambridge University. Professor Alexander is a prolific and recognized writer, notably awarded the American Publishers Association's 1997 Book of the Year in Law for his work 'Commodity Property'. His significant works include 'Global Debate on Constitutional Property: Lessons from American Takings Jurisprudence', 'Community & Property' (co-authored with Eduardo Peñalver), and 'Properties of Property' (co-authored with Hanoch Dagan). His most recent book is 'Introduction to Property Theory' (co-authored with Eduardo Peñalver).