Gregory S Alexander
Biographic Data
| ID | 2828132 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gregory S Alexander |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gregory S |
| FAMILY NAME | Alexander |
| SIGNATURE | ALEXANDER G S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cornell University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1907-7828 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Reflections on racism levelled against Black learners at Historically White South African schools
Alumni discussions about racism and discriminatory practices experienced by Black learners at Historically White Schools (HWSs) in South Africa were triggered by the 2020 George Floyd incident. Several HWSs were accused of racist acts and discrimination by learners and alumni on social media forums during the Black Lives Matter (BLM) demonstrations. It is concerning that after 28 years of democracy, racism still exists in South African schools, s…
Hanoch Dagan and the liberal concept of autonomy
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Property and Human Flourishing
Many people assume that what morally justifies private ownership of property is either individual freedom or social welfare, defined in terms of maximizing personal preference-satisfaction. This book offers an alternative way of understanding the moral underpinning of private ownership of property. Rather than identifying any single moral value, this book argues that human flourishing is property’s moral foundation. It develops a theory that conn…
Ownership and Obligations
This chapter is the theoretical heart of the book. It develops the argument that inherent in the concept of ownership itself is an obligation that property owners owe to members of their communities to enable them to flourish. More specifically, the state may legitimately make certain demands on owners to contribute to the maintenance of the matrices and services that nurture the capabilities that are necessary for human flourishing. The chapter …
Issues Influencing Black Learners’ Scholastic Experiences in ex-Model C Further Education and Training Schools
Intergenerational Communities
Under the human flourishing theory of property, owners have obligations, positive as well as negative, that they owe to members of the various communities to which they belong. But are the members of those communities limited to living persons, or do they include non-living persons as well, i.e., future persons and the dead? This Article argues that owners owe two sorts of obligation to non-living members of our generational communities, one gene…
The Complexities of Land Reparations
The question whether unjust dispossessions of land perpetrated on whole peoples in the past should be corrected by restitution in kind, that is, granting reparations in the form of returning land to the dispossessed former owners or their present‐day successors, is substantially more complex than the questions posed by other forms of reparations. I argue that the complexities involved in all the situations where claims for land reparations are ma…
Property and Community
The relationship between individuals and communities — all manner of communities, but especially the state — is a central preoccupation of property theory. Across a broad range of property thought — from utilitarian to Lockean to Hegelian — scholars have expended enormous effort explaining what owners can do with their property and the extent to which the community or the state can participate in those decisions. Discussions of property rights, f…
Comparing the Two Legal Realisms-American and Scandinavian
Journal Article Comparing the Two Legal Realisms-American and Scandinavian Get access Gregory S. Alexander Gregory S. Alexander 1Gregory S. Alexander is A. Robert Noll Professor of Law, Cornell University. I am deeply grateful to the participants at the Conference on American and Scandinavian Legal Realism, sponsored by the Institute of Legal Genetics, Stockholm, for their helpful comments. Marie Sandström and Claes Peterson, both of the Universi…
Legal Systems in Conflict
Journal Article Legal Systems in Conflict: Property and Sovereignty in Missouri, 1750–1860. By Stuart Banner. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2000. xiv, 206 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-80613182-9.) Get access Gregory S. Alexander Gregory S. Alexander Cornell University, Ithacca, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Issue 4, March 2001, Pages 1479–1480, https://doi.…
Commodity and Properity
Journal Article Commodity & Propriety: Competing Visions of Property in American Legal Thought, 1776–1970. By Gregory S. Alexander. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997. x, 486 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-226-01353-7.) Get access William J. Novak William J. Novak University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Issue 2, September 2000, Pages 623…
Commodity and Propriety
Journal Article Commodity and Propriety: Competing Visions of Property in American Legal Thought, 1776–1970 Get access Alexander Gregory S., Commodity and Propriety: Competing Visions of Property in American Legal Thought, 1776–1970. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997. x, 486 pp. $39.95. James L. Kainen James L. Kainen Fordham University School of Law Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journa…
Civic Property
The New Great Transformation? Change and Continuity in East-Central Europe
The Transformation of Trusts as a Legal Category, 1800–1914
Sometimes we are least aware of that which most affects us. So it seems with respect to legal categories. Lawyers do not take legal categories very seriously today. But they should. Legal categories are central to legal reasoning; indeed it is almost impossible to imagine legal reasoning without the use of categories. Categorical thinking affects every area of law. In constitutional law, for example, equal protection analysis turns crucially on c…
The Dead Hand and the Law of Trusts in the Nineteenth Century
This article discusses a basic paradox at the core of liberal property law. Individual freedom to dispose of consolidated bundles of rights cannot simultaneously be allowed and fully maintained. If the donor of a property interest tries to restrict the donee's freedom to dispose of that interest, the legal system, in deciding whether to enforce or void that restriction, must resolve whose freedom it will protect, that of the donor or that of the …
The Complexities of Land Reparations
The question whether unjust dispossessions of land perpetrated on whole peoples in the past should be corrected by restitution in kind, that is, granting reparations in the form of returning land to the dispossessed former owners or their present‐day successors, is substantially more complex than the questions posed by other forms of reparations. I argue that the complexities involved in all the situations where claims for land reparations are ma…
Civic Property
Reflections on racism levelled against Black learners at Historically White South African schools
Alumni discussions about racism and discriminatory practices experienced by Black learners at Historically White Schools (HWSs) in South Africa were triggered by the 2020 George Floyd incident. Several HWSs were accused of racist acts and discrimination by learners and alumni on social media forums during the Black Lives Matter (BLM) demonstrations. It is concerning that after 28 years of democracy, racism still exists in South African schools, s…
The Dead Hand and the Law of Trusts in the Nineteenth Century
This article discusses a basic paradox at the core of liberal property law. Individual freedom to dispose of consolidated bundles of rights cannot simultaneously be allowed and fully maintained. If the donor of a property interest tries to restrict the donee's freedom to dispose of that interest, the legal system, in deciding whether to enforce or void that restriction, must resolve whose freedom it will protect, that of the donor or that of the …
The Transformation of Trusts as a Legal Category, 1800–1914
Sometimes we are least aware of that which most affects us. So it seems with respect to legal categories. Lawyers do not take legal categories very seriously today. But they should. Legal categories are central to legal reasoning; indeed it is almost impossible to imagine legal reasoning without the use of categories. Categorical thinking affects every area of law. In constitutional law, for example, equal protection analysis turns crucially on c…
The New Great Transformation? Change and Continuity in East-Central Europe
Civic Property
Commodity and Properity
Journal Article Commodity & Propriety: Competing Visions of Property in American Legal Thought, 1776–1970. By Gregory S. Alexander. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997. x, 486 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-226-01353-7.) Get access William J. Novak William J. Novak University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Issue 2, September 2000, Pages 623…
Commodity and Propriety
Journal Article Commodity and Propriety: Competing Visions of Property in American Legal Thought, 1776–1970 Get access Alexander Gregory S., Commodity and Propriety: Competing Visions of Property in American Legal Thought, 1776–1970. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997. x, 486 pp. $39.95. James L. Kainen James L. Kainen Fordham University School of Law Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journa…
Legal Systems in Conflict
Journal Article Legal Systems in Conflict: Property and Sovereignty in Missouri, 1750–1860. By Stuart Banner. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2000. xiv, 206 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-80613182-9.) Get access Gregory S. Alexander Gregory S. Alexander Cornell University, Ithacca, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Issue 4, March 2001, Pages 1479–1480, https://doi.…
Comparing the Two Legal Realisms-American and Scandinavian
Journal Article Comparing the Two Legal Realisms-American and Scandinavian Get access Gregory S. Alexander Gregory S. Alexander 1Gregory S. Alexander is A. Robert Noll Professor of Law, Cornell University. I am deeply grateful to the participants at the Conference on American and Scandinavian Legal Realism, sponsored by the Institute of Legal Genetics, Stockholm, for their helpful comments. Marie Sandström and Claes Peterson, both of the Universi…
Property and Community
The relationship between individuals and communities — all manner of communities, but especially the state — is a central preoccupation of property theory. Across a broad range of property thought — from utilitarian to Lockean to Hegelian — scholars have expended enormous effort explaining what owners can do with their property and the extent to which the community or the state can participate in those decisions. Discussions of property rights, f…
The Complexities of Land Reparations
The question whether unjust dispossessions of land perpetrated on whole peoples in the past should be corrected by restitution in kind, that is, granting reparations in the form of returning land to the dispossessed former owners or their present‐day successors, is substantially more complex than the questions posed by other forms of reparations. I argue that the complexities involved in all the situations where claims for land reparations are ma…
Issues Influencing Black Learners’ Scholastic Experiences in ex-Model C Further Education and Training Schools
Intergenerational Communities
Under the human flourishing theory of property, owners have obligations, positive as well as negative, that they owe to members of the various communities to which they belong. But are the members of those communities limited to living persons, or do they include non-living persons as well, i.e., future persons and the dead? This Article argues that owners owe two sorts of obligation to non-living members of our generational communities, one gene…
Property and Human Flourishing
Many people assume that what morally justifies private ownership of property is either individual freedom or social welfare, defined in terms of maximizing personal preference-satisfaction. This book offers an alternative way of understanding the moral underpinning of private ownership of property. Rather than identifying any single moral value, this book argues that human flourishing is property’s moral foundation. It develops a theory that conn…
Ownership and Obligations
This chapter is the theoretical heart of the book. It develops the argument that inherent in the concept of ownership itself is an obligation that property owners owe to members of their communities to enable them to flourish. More specifically, the state may legitimately make certain demands on owners to contribute to the maintenance of the matrices and services that nurture the capabilities that are necessary for human flourishing. The chapter …
Hanoch Dagan and the liberal concept of autonomy
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Reflections on racism levelled against Black learners at Historically White South African schools
Alumni discussions about racism and discriminatory practices experienced by Black learners at Historically White Schools (HWSs) in South Africa were triggered by the 2020 George Floyd incident. Several HWSs were accused of racist acts and discrimination by learners and alumni on social media forums during the Black Lives Matter (BLM) demonstrations. It is concerning that after 28 years of democracy, racism still exists in South African schools, s…
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