Thomas Gallanis

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Thomas P. Gallanis

Professor of Law, Professor of History, and Director, W&L Center for Law and History

B.A. summa cum laude with Distinction in History, Yale University, 1987; J.D., University of Chicago, 1990; Bradley Fellow in Legal History, 1990; Senior Comment Editor, University of Chicago Legal Forum, 1990; LL.M. with first class honours in comparative law and legal history, Cambridge University, 1993; Hamson Prize in Comparative Law, 1993; Wright and Hughes Prizes for academic excellence, 1993; Mansergh History Prize, 1996; Ph.D. in English legal history, Cambridge University, 1997.

Biography

Admitted to practice in Illinois, 1990; law clerk to Hon. David A. Nelson, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, 1990-91; associate, Mayer Brown & Platt, Chicago, 1991-92; Assistant Professor of Law to Associate Professor of Law and History, Ohio State University, 1997-2003; Director, W&L Center for Law and History, 2003-present; Professor of Law and Professor of History, Washington and Lee University, 2004-present. Selden Society’s David Yale Prize, 1999. Mellon Fellow in Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, 2000-01. Visiting positions at the University of Michigan (Fall 1998); Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Oxford University (fellow, Summer 1999); Washington and Lee University (Fall 2002); University of Illinois (Fall 2004); University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Fall 2006); Cambridge University (Herbert Smith Visitor in the Faculty of Law, May-August 2007).

For the Media

Professor Gallanis is available to be interviewed on the following subjects:

• Decedents' Estates 
• ERISA (Employee Retirement Income Security Act)
• Estate and Gift Taxation 
• Estate Planning 
• Family Law 
• Fiduciary Duties and Misconduct 
• Property Law 
• Trusts and Estates 

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