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Commodity's Propriety
Rose, Carol M.
Rose, Carol M.
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I have known Greg Alexander for a very long time. Indeed, except
for members of his family, I may have known Greg longer than anyone else at this conference celebrating Greg and his work. Since the
beginning of this long friendship, we have had three notable encounters, and I would like to begin this Comment with those.
The first encounter was at the University of Chicago Law School in
the early 1970s. I was a student there at the time, and Greg was a
Bigelow Fellow, one of the Law School’s much-sought-after year-long
positions as legal writing instructors. I was already in my second
year by then, so there was no chance that I would have had Greg as
my Bigelow teacher, but somehow Greg and I and a fellow student
and good friend, Martha Fineman, all gravitated together. Martha
is now a very distinguished legal academic, holding a Woodruff Chair
at Emory University School of Law. But even back then, both she and
Greg were determined to go into law teaching. I, on the other hand,
was not. I had just jettisoned a history teaching career to go to law
school, and I had resolved to steer clear of anything like an academic
career. But under Greg’s and Martha’s influence, I weakened. In
that sense, Greg’s and Martha’s long-ago example explains why I
now have the opportunity to say anything at all about Greg’s voluminous academic work.