Well-known property law scholar Gregory S. Alexander, the A. Robert Noll Professor of Law at will present the 2014 Distinguished Gifford Lecture in Real Property on November 5, 4:30 p.m. in the Moot Courtroom at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa .
Alexander’s topic will be “Five Easy Pieces: Recurrent Themes in American Property Law.” The lecture is free and open to the public.
Alexander is a prolific author, and was the winner of the American Publishers Association’s 1997 Best Book of the Year in Law Award for his path-breaking book, .
He taught at , Virginia and Harvard law schools, was the Herbert Smith Distinguished Visiting Fellow at . He also has been a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at in Palo Alto and at the in both Heidelberg and Hamburg, Germany.
School of Law Dean Avi Soifer noted that, over the 13 years the lectureship has been in place, Hawaiʻi has had the good fortune to hear an outstanding array of property law experts from across the country.
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—By Beverly Creamer