Thomas P. Gallanis

Julius E. Davis Professor of Law and Affiliate Member of the Department of History

Thomas P. Gallanis

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

612-626-9700

612-625-2011

gallanis@umn.edu

Yale University, B.A.
University of Chicago, J.D.
Cambridge University, LL.M., Ph.D.

Professor Thomas P. Gallanis is the Julius E. Davis Professor of Law for 2008-2009 and an Affiliate Member of the Department of History. He is a prize-winning legal historian and an authority on trust, probate, and investment law. He teaches and writes in the fields of trust and estate law, estate and gift taxation, property, and English and European legal history. Prior to teaching at Minnesota, he was Professor of Law, Professor of History, and the Director of the Center for Law and History at Washington and Lee University.

Professor Gallanis received a B.A. summa cum laude with distinction in history from Yale University, a J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School, where he held a Bradley Fellowship in Legal History, and an LL.M. with first class honors in legal history and comparative law and a Ph.D. in legal history from Cambridge University. At Cambridge, he was a Benefactors' Scholar of St. John's College and was awarded the Hamson prize in comparative law, the Mansergh prize in history, and the Wright and Hughes prizes for academic excellence.

Professor Gallanis has held a year-long Mellon Fellowship in Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, and been a visiting scholar at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Oxford. From May to August 2007, he was Herbert Smith visiting professor in the law faculty of Cambridge University.

He is active in the field of trusts and estates and is a Fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel. Elected to the American Law Institute, he serves on the consultative groups for the Restatement (Third) of Property (Wills and Other Donative Transfers) and the Restatement (Third) of Trusts. Within the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws, he is the assistant executive director of the Joint Editorial Board for Uniform Trust and Estate Acts, the official body monitoring all uniform legislation in the field, and is serving as reporter (principal drafter) for a proposed Uniform Real Property Transfer on Death Act. Before graduate school at Cambridge, Professor Gallanis practiced with the trusts and estates group at Mayer, Brown & Platt in Chicago (now Mayer Brown LLP).

Professor Gallanis is also active in legal history, serving as the Secretary of the American Society for Legal History, and as a member of the editorial boards of the two leading journals in the field, Law and History Review (in the U.S.) and the Journal of Legal History (in England). He is also a member, and honorary correspondent, of the Selden Society. He was awarded the Selden Society's David Yale Prize in 1999 for his article on the rise of modern evidence law, which was judged a "distinguished contribution to the history of the laws and legal institutions of England and Wales."

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