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Gregory S. Alexander 
A. Robert Noll Professor of Law
Working Papers
"Unborn Communities," Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 13-83 (2013).
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"An Introduction to Property Theory," (with Educardo M. Penalver) Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 12-15 (2012). Cambridge Introductions to Philosophy and Law, Cambridge University Press (2012).
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"Governance Property," Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper  No. 12-14 (2012) University of Pennsylvania Law Review May, 2012.
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"Pluralism and Property," Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 11-40, forthcoming in 80 Fordham Law Review _ (2011).
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"The Dilution of the Trust," in The Worlds of the Trust (Cambridge University Press; Lionel Smith, ed.) Cornell Legal Research Paper No. 11-41(2011).
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Books
Properties of Property  (with Hanoch Dagan) (Wolters Kluwer Law and Business, 2012).
An Introduction to Property Theory (with Eduardo M. Penalver) ( Cambridge Univiversity Press, Cambridge Introductions to Philosophy and Law, 2012).
 
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Property and Community (New York : Oxford University Press; ed. with Eduardo Peńalver, 2010).
The Global Debate Over Constitutional Property: Lessons for American Takings Jurisprudence (Chicago:  University of Chicago Press, 2006).
Commodity & Propriety: Competing Visions of Property in American Legal Thought 1776-1970 (Chicago: Chicago Press, 1997).
A Fourth Way?: Privatization, Property, and the Emergence of New Market Economics (editor with Grazyna Skapska) (New York: Routledge, 1994).
Casebooks
Property (with Jesse Dukeminier, James Krier, and Michael Schill) (New York: Aspen Pub., 7th ed. 2010).
Family Property Law: Cases and Materials on Wills, Trusts, and Future Interests (with Lawrence W. Waggoner, Mary Louise Fellows, and Thomas P. Gallanis) (New York:  Foundation Press, 4th ed. 2006).
Teacher's Manual for Property (with Jesse Dukeminier, James Krier, Michael H. Schill) (New York, NY:  Aspen Publishers, 6th ed. 2006).
Property (with Jesse Dukeminier, James Krier, and Michael Schill) (New York: Aspen Pub., 6th ed. 2006).
Family Property Law: Cases and Materials on Wills, Trusts, and Future Interests (with Lawrence W. Waggoner, Mary Louise Fellows, and Thomas P. Gallanis) (New York:  Foundation Press, 3d ed. 2002).
Teacher's Manual for Family Property Law: Cases and Materials on Wills, Trusts, and Future Interests (with Lawrence W. Waggoner, Mary Louise Fellows, and Thomas P. Gallanis) (New York: Foundation Press, 3d ed. 2002). 
Family Property Law: Cases and Materials on Wills, Trusts, and Future Interests (with Lawrence W. Waggoner and Mary Louise Fellows) (Westbury, NY: Foundation Press, 2d ed. 1997).
Teacher's Manual for Family Property Law: Cases and Materials on Wills, Trusts, and Future Interests (with Lawrence W. Waggoner and Mary Louise Fellows) (Westbury: Foundation Press, 2d ed. 1997). 
Family Property Law: Cases and Materials on Wills, Trusts, and Future Interests (with Lawrence W. Waggoner, Richard V. Wellman, and Mary Louise Fellows) (Westbury, NY: Foundation Press, 1991). 
Contributions to Books

"Culture and Capitalism: a Comment on de Soto," in Hernando de Soto and Property in a Market Economy (Ashgate publishing; D. Benjamin Barros, ed., 2010). 

"Ownership and Its Obligations: Public Access to Beaches and Other Encroachments on the Right to Exclude." in Powell on Real Property: Michael Allan Wolf Desk Edition (New Providence, NJ: LexisNexis Matthew Bender; 2009).

"Property Rights," in Global Perspectives on Constitutional Law (New York: Oxford University Press, Vikram Amar & Mark V. Tushnet eds., 2009).  
"Socio-Economic Rights in American Perspective: The Tradition of Anti-Paternalism in American Constitutional Thought," in Theories of Social and Economic Justice (Sun Press: Cape Town, A.J. van der Walt, ed. 2005).

"Propriety through Commodity: Why Have Legal Environmentalists Embraced Market-Based Solutions?" in Private Property in the 21st Century:  The Future of an American Ideal (Northampton, MA:  Edward Elgar Press, Harvey M. Jacobs, ed. 2004).

 
"Property as a Fundamental Right," in Encyclopedia Britannica (Chicago: Encyclopedia Britannica, 2002).
"Constitutionalizing Property: Two Experiences, Two Dilemmas," in Property and the Constitution, 99-108 (Oxford, England; Portland, OR: Hart Publishing, Jean McLean, ed. 1999).
"The Limits of Freedom of Contract in the Age of Laissez-Faire Constitutionalism," in Fall and Rise of Freedom of Contract 103-118 (Durham, NC;  London: Duke University Press, F.H. Buckley, ed. 1999).
"Critical Land Law," in Land Law:  Themes and Perspectives 52-81 (Oxford:  Oxford Univ. Press, Susan Bright and John Dewar, eds. 1998).
"Housing Commodification and Democracy," in  Property Law on the Threshold of the 21st Century 537-51 (Antwerp, NL: Maklu, G.E. van Maanen and A.J. vander Walt, eds. 1996).
"Conditions of 'Voice': Passivity, Disappointment, and Democracy in Homeowner Associations," in Common Interest Communities: Private Governments and the Public Interest 145-68 (Berkeley: Univ.of California Institute of Governmental Studies Press,  Stephen E. Barton and Carol J. Silverman, eds. 1994).
"Pensioners in America," in A Fourth Way? (N.Y.:  Routledge, G. Alexander and G. Skapska, eds. 1994).
"Spendthrift Trusts and Their Functional Substitutes," in Debtor-Creditor Law Chapter 22A, pp. 22A-1--22A-91 (New York:  Matthew Bender, Theodore Eisenberg, ed. 1986).
Articles
"Properties of Community" (with Eduardo M. Penalver), 10 Theoretical Inquiries in Law 127-160 (2009).
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(Reply) "Complex Core of Property" 94 Cornell Law Review 1063-1072 (2009).
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"The Social-Obligation Norm in American Property Law," 94 Cornell Law Review 745-819 (2009).
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"A Statement of Progressive Property," (with Eduardo Penalver and Laura S. Underkuffler) 94 Cornell Law Review 743-744 (2009).
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"Demythologizing Property and the Illusion of Rules: A Response to Two Friendly Critics," 92 Cornell Law Review 1275 (2007).
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"Michelman as Doctrinalist," 15 William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal 371 (2006-2007).
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"The Ambiguous Work of 'Natural Property Rights'," 9 University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law 477-482 (2006).
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"Forty Years of Codification of Estates and Trusts Law:  Lessons for the Next Generation" (with Mary Louise Fellows), 40 Georgia Law Review 1049-85 (2006).
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"Trust Protectors:  Who Will Watch the Watchmen?" 27 Cardozo Law Review 2807-11 (2006).
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"Eminent Domain and Secondary Rentseeking," 1 New York University Journal of Law & Liberty 958-66 (2006).
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"The Limits of Property Reparations," Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 05-004 (May 7, 2003). 
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"Property as a Fundamental  Constitutional Right—The German Example," 88 Cornell Law Review 733-78 (2003).
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"Comment: Playing with Fire," 87 Cornell Law Review 449-51 (2002).
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"Comparing the Two Legal Realisms—American and Scandinavian," 50 American Jounal of Comparative Law 131 (2002).
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"A Cognitive Theory of Fiduciary Relationships," 85 Cornell Law Review 767-85 (2000).
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"Property as Propriety" (Festschrift for Professor Lawrence Berger) 77 Nebraska Law Review 667-702 (1999).
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"The Publicness of Private Land Use Controls," 3 Edinburgh Law Review 176-190 (1999).
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"Regulatory Implication of Individual Management of Pension Fund: Commentary on Presentations of Prof. Roberta S. Karmel and Prof. James A. Fanto," 64 Brooklyn Law Review 1111-13 (1998).
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"The New Marriage Contract and the Limits of Private Ordering," 73 Indiana Law Journal 503-10 (1998).
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"Civic Property," 6 Social & Legal Studies 217-34 (1997).
"Teoria własnośi demokratycznej [The Theory of Democratic Ownership]," Universitas twórczość wiedza wyksztatcenie (Cracow, Poland), nr. 21, pp. 11-17 (1997).
"Ten Years of Takings (The Last Ten Years: What Your Students Know That You Should Know Too)," 46 Journal of Legal Education 586-95 (1996).
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"'Takings' Jurisprudence in the U.S. Supreme Court: The Past 10 Years," 56 Heidelberg Journal of International Law 857-70 (1996).
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"Pensions and Passivity," 56 Law and Contemporary Problems 111-39 (1993).
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"A Fourth Way?: Economic Transformation in the Post-Communist World," 20 Cornell Law Forum 3-8 (1993).
"Ademption and the Domain of Formality in Wills Law," 55 Albany Law Review 1067-89 (1992).
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"Takings and the Post-Modern Dialectic of Property," 9 Constitutional Commentary 259-77 (1992).
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"Time and Property in the American Republican Legal Culture," 66 New York University Law Review 273-352 (1991).
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"Dilemmas of Group Autonomy: Residential Associations and Community," 75 Cornell Law Review 1-61 (1990).
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"Talking About Difference: Meanings and Metaphors of Individuality," 11 Cardozo Law Review 1355-75 (1990).
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"Freedom, Coercion, and the Law of Servitudes," 73 Cornell Law Review 883-905 (1988).
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"Takings, Narratives, and Power," 88 Columbia Law Review 1752-73 (1988).
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"The Transformation of Trusts as a Legal Category, 1800-1914," 5 Law and History Review 303-50 (1987).
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"Do Lawyers Need a New Language?" 13 Cornell Law Forum 55-58 (1986).
"History as Ideology in the Basic Property Course," 36 Journal of Legal Education 381-89 (1986).
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"The Dead Hand and the Law of Trusts in the Nineteenth Century," 37 Stanford Law Review 1189-1266 (1985).
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"The Concept of Property in Private and Constitutional Law: The Ideology of the Scientific Turn in Legal Analysis," 82 Columbia Law Review 1545-99 (1982).
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"Alternative Models of Ante-Mortem Probate and Procedural Due Process Limitationson Succession" (with Albert M. Pearson), 78 Michigan Law Review 89-122 (1979).
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"The Concept of Function and the Basis of Regulatory Interests under the Functional Choice-of-Law Theory: The Significance of Benefit and the Insignificance of Intention," 65 Virginia Law Review 1063-91 (1979).
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"The Conservatorship Model: A Modification," 77 Michigan Law Review 86-94 (1978).
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"The Application and Avoidance of Foreign Law in the Law of Conflicts: Variationson a Theme of Alexander Nekam," 70 Northwestern University Law Review 602-38 (1976).
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Book Reviews
"Review of Stuart Banner, Legal Systems in Conflict: Property and Sovereignty in Missouri," 87 Journal of American History 1479-80 (March 2001).
"Review of John H. Beckstrom, Sociobiology and the Law: The Biology of Altruism in the Courtroom of the Future," 36 Journal of Legal Education 122-27 (1986).
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"Interpreting Legal Constructivism," 71 Cornell Law Review 249-259 (1985) (Review of Bruce A. Ackerman, Reconstructing American Law).
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"Choice-of-Law Methodology and Conflicts Casebooks: Selected Problems," 55 Texas Law Review 953-72 (1977) (Review of Roger C. Cramton, David P. Currie, and Herma Hill Kay, Conflicts of Laws: Cases-Comments-Questions;  Willis L. Reese and Maurice Rosenberg, Cases and Materials on Conflicts of Laws; and Eugene F. Scoles and Russell J. Weintraub, Cases and Materials on Conflict of Laws).
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Electronic Publications
"A Cognitive Theory of Fiduciary Relationships," in Legal Essays (Douglas L. Leslie, ed.).  http://www.LegalEssays.com
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