Mary L. Fellows

Everett Fraser Professor of Law

Mary L. Fellows

338 Mondale Hall
229–19th Ave. South
Minneapolis, MN 55455

612-626-0264

fello001@umn.edu

University of Michigan, B.A., J.D.

Professor Mary Louise Fellows is a nationally recognized scholar in the areas of trusts and estates, federal tax law, and feminist jurisprudence. She teaches courses on wills and trusts, estate planning, taxation, and feminist theory. Professor Fellows is the first Everett Fraser Professor of Law and is the first woman to hold a permanent appointment to an endowed chair at the University of Minnesota.

Professor Fellows graduated, magna cum laude, from the University of Michigan Law School, where she was an Editor of the University of Michigan Law Review and is a member of the Order of the Coif. Upon graduation from law school, she joined the faculty of the University of Illinois College of Law. In 1982, she became a Professor at the University of Iowa College of Law. In addition to serving as a tenured member of these faculties, Professor Fellows has been a Visiting Professor at Columbia University Law School, Harvard University Law School, Cornell University Law School, and the University of Michigan Law School. She was the Visiting Everett Fraser Professor of Law at the University of Minnesota Law School during the 1989-90 academic year and was named the Everett Fraser Professor of Law in 1990. Professor Fellows was a recipient of the 1996 John K. & Elsie Lampert Fesler Research Grant.

Professor Fellows is a member of the American Law Institute. She is an Adviser for the Restatement of the Law, Third-Property (Donative Transfers) and for the Restatement of Law, Third-Trusts. Professor Fellows also serves as the representative of law schools on the Joint Editorial Board of the Uniform Probate Code. She completed a Ph.D. in Anglo-Saxon and Early Medieval literature at the University of Minnesota in 2005.

For additional information on Professor Fellows, please see her curriculum vitae.

PUBLICATIONS

Books

Is Academic Feminism Dead? Theory in Practice (coeditor, 2000).

Family Property Law: Cases and Materials on Wills, Trusts, and Future Interests (1st ed. 1991, 2d ed. 1997) (with Lawrence W. Waggoner, Richard V. Wellman & Gregory S. Alexander).

Taxing America (1996) (edited with Karen B. Brown).

Law and Violence Against Women: Cases and Materials on Systems of Oppression (1994) (with Beverly Balos).

Federal Taxation of Estates, Gifts, and Trusts (ALI-ABA 2nd ed. 1975 & Supp. 1977) (with Earl M. Colson & Douglas A. Kahn).

Articles

Pride and Prejudice: A Study of Connections, 7 Va. J. Soc. Pol'y & L. 453 (2000).

Unbending Gender: Why Family and Work Conflict and What to Do about It, 49 Am. U. L. Rev. 851 (2000) (published remarks).

A Matter of Prostitution: Becoming Respectable, 74 N.Y.U.L. Rev. 1220 (1999) (with Beverly Balos).

Rocking the Tax Code (A Case Study of the Tax Treatment of Work-Related Child-Care Expenditures), 10 Yale J. L. & Feminism 307 (1998).

A Feminist Interpretation of the Law and Legitimacy, 7 Tex. J. Women & L. 195 (1998).

The Race to Innocence: Why We Need a Methodology for Tracing Hierarchical Relations: Among Women, 1 J. Gender, Race, & Just. (1997) (with Sherene Razack).

A Legislative Antidote for the Myths of Prostitution, Hennepin Law., Jan.-Feb. 1995, at 5 (with Beverly Balos).

Spendthrift Trusts: Roots and Relevance for 21st Century Planning, 50 Rec. Ass'n B. City N.Y. 140 (1995).

Seeking Relations: Law and Feminism Roundtables, 19 Signs 1048 (1994) (with Sherene Razack).

The Law of Legitimacy: An Instrument of Procreative Power, 3 Colum. J. Gender & L. 495 (1993).

Traveling the Road of Probate Reform: Finding the Way to Your Will, 77 Minn. L. Rev. 659 (1993).

His to Give; His to Receive; Hers to Trust; a Response to Carol M. Rose, 44 Fla. L. Rev. 329 (1992).

Guilty of the Crime of Trust: Nonstranger Rape, 75 Minn. L. Rev. 599 (1991) (with Beverly Balos).

Testing Perpetuity Reforms: A Study of Perpetuity Cases 1984-89, 25 Real Prop. Prob. & Tr. J. 597 (1991).

Wills and Trusts: "The Kingdom of the Fathers," 10 L. & Ineq. J. 137 (1991).

A Comprehensive Attack on Tax Deferral, 88 Mich. L. Rev. 722 (1990).

Future Costs Reconsidered: A Reevaluation of IRC Section 461(h), 44 Tax Notes 1531 (1989).

In Search of Donative Intent, 73 Iowa L. Rev. 611 (1988).

Donative Promises Redux, chapter in Property Law & Legal Education (1988) (edited by Peter Hay & Michael Hoeflich).

The Slayer Rules: Not Solely a Matter of Equity, 71 Iowa L. Rev. 489 (1986).

Concealing Legislative Reform in the Common-Law Tradition: The Advancements Doctrine and the Uniform Probate Code, 37 Vand. L. Rev. 671 (1984).

Family Systems and Inheritance Patterns: Public Opinion About Property Distributions at Death, 5 Marriage & Fam. Rev. 25 (1982) (with William Rau & Rita J. Simon).

The Case Against Living Probate, 78 Mich. L. Rev. 1066 (1980).

Public Versus Statutory Choice of Heirs: A Study of Public Attitudes About Property Distribution at Death, 58 Social Forces 1263 (1980) (with William Rau & Rita J. Simon).

Valuing Close Corporations for Federal Wealth Transfer Taxes: A Statutory Solution to the Disappearing Wealth Syndrome, 30 Stan. L. Rev. 895 (1978) (with Painter).

A Comparison of Public Attitudes About Property Distribution at Death to Intestate Succession Laws in the United States, 1978 Am. B. Found. Res. J. 319 (with William Rau & Rita J. Simon).

Partnership Taxation: Confusion in Section 702 (b), 32 Tax. L. Rev. 67 (1976).

An Empirical Study: Evaluation of the Illinois Statutory Estate Plan, 1976 U. Ill. L.F. 717 (with William Rau & Rita J. Simon).

COURSES

Courses

Law and Literature
Wills and Trusts
Law and Violence Against Women
Estate Planning