As a legal theorist and a historian of modern American legal thought, Grey has written widely on pragmatism, legal formalism, legal realism, and the jurisprudence of Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.[1] Grey attended Phillips Exeter Academy, then received his Bachelor of Arts from Stanford University in 1963 and a Bachelor of Arts from Oxford University in 1965, where he studied as a Marshall Scholar.
[1] Following law school, Grey clerked for Judge J. Skelly Wright of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and for Justice Thurgood Marshall of the Supreme Court of the United States.
At Stanford, Grey taught Torts to first-year law students for over 30 years.
[4] Grey married Cathryn Stevenson, a Stanford classmate and fellow philosophy major.
They later divorced amicably, and Cathryn ultimately died of breast cancer.