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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.

Publications

SSRN Publications

1. Books:

Family Property Law: Cases and Materials on Wills, Trusts and Future Interests (Foundation Press 3d ed. 2002, 4th ed. 2006) (with Lawrence Waggoner, Gregory Alexander, and Mary Louise Fellows).

Estates and Future Interests (West Nutshell Series, 3d ed. 2005)(with Lawrence Waggoner).

Elder Law: Readings, Cases and Materials (Anderson Publishing 2000, 2d ed. 2003, Supp. 2005) (with A. Kimberley Dayton and Molly Wood).

Elder Law: Statutes and Regulations (Anderson Publishing 2000, 2d ed. 2003) (with A. Kimberley Dayton and Molly Wood).

2. Articles and Book Chapters:

The Trustee's Duty to Inform, 85 North Carolina Law Review ___ (forthcoming September 2007).

The Mystery of Old Bailey Counsel, 65 Cambridge Law Journal 158 (2006).

Domestic Partners and Inheritance: Past, Present, Future, 39th Annual Heckerling Institute on Estate Planning (Matthew Bender 2005).

Inheritance Rights for Domestic Partners, 79 Tulane L. Rev. 55 (2004), available at Lexis; Westlaw.

ERISA and the Law of Succession, 65 Ohio St. L. J. 185 (2004), available at Westlaw.

Adversarial Culture, Adversarial Doctrine: Cross-Examination and Leading Questions in the State Trials on CD-ROM, 24 J. Legal Hist. 86 (2003).

The Future of Future Interests, 60 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 513 (2003), available at Lexis; Hein-Online; Westlaw.

Evidence Law and the Evidentiary Objection: A View From the British Trials Collection, in Domestic and International Trials, 1700-2000, at 12 (The Trial in History, Volume 2, R. A. Melikan ed., Manchester University Press 2003).

Aging and the Nontraditional Family, 32 U. Mem. L. Rev. 607 (2002) (Family Law Symposium), available at Lexis; ProQuest; Westlaw.

The Rule Against Perpetuities and the Law Commission's Flawed Philosophy, 59 Camb. L. J. 284 (2000), available at Hein-Online.

Default Rules, Mandatory Rules, and the Movement for Same-Sex Equality, 60 Ohio St. L. J. 1513 (1999), available at Hein-Online; Lexis; Westlaw.

The Rise of Modern Evidence Law, 84 Iowa L. Rev. 499 (1999). (Awarded the 1999 David Yale Prize by the Selden Society), available at Hein-Online; Lexis; Westlaw.

Write and Wrong: Rethinking the Way We Communicate Health-Care Decisions, 31 Conn. L. Rev. 1015 (1999), available at Hein-Online; Lexis; Westlaw.

La Preuve en “Common Law”: Wigmore Aujourd’hui, 23 Droits 79 (1996) (based on my lecture given in French at the University of Paris II (Panthéon-Assas)).

3. Short Reviews:

Review Notice: The Old Bailey Proceedings Online, 26 Journal of Legal History. 105 (2005).

Book Review, 35 Albion 520 (2003) (reviewing Chantal Stebbings, The Private Trustee in Victorian England (2001)), available at ExpAcad.

Book Review, 21 Law & Hist. Rev. 625 (2003) (reviewing Barbara J. Shapiro, A Culture of Fact: England, 1550-1720 (2000)), available at Hein-Online; Lexis; Westlaw.

Book Review, 20 Law & Hist. Rev. 181 (2002) (reviewing Christopher W. Brooks, Lawyers, Litigation and English Society Since 1450 (1998)), available at Hein-Online; Lexis; Westlaw.

Book Review, 60 Camb. L.J. 432 (2001) (reviewing David Lemmings, Professors of the Law: Barristers and English Legal Culture in the Eighteenth Century (2000)), available at Camb. L.J..

Book Review, 32 Albion 311 (2000) (reviewing Netta M. Goldsmith, The Worst of Crimes: Homosexuality and the Law in Eighteenth-Century Britain (1998)).

Book Review, 44 Am. J. Leg. History 441 (2000) (reviewing David J. Ibbetson, A Historical Introduction to the Law of Obligations (1999)), available at Hein-Online; Westlaw.

Book Review, 3 J. Early Mod. Hist. 408 (1999) (reviewing R.H. Helmholz et al., The Privilege Against Self Incrimination (1997)).

Book Review, H-Law, H-Net Reviews (August 1999) (reviewing Cynthia Herrup, A House in Gross Disorder: Sex, Law, and the Second Earl of Castlehaven (1999)), available at H-Net Reviews.

Book Review, 62 Mod. L. Rev. 483 (1999) (reviewing Christopher Allen, The Law of Evidence in Victorian England (1997)).

Legal History With 21st-Century Tools: The English Reports on CD-ROM and Bracton on the Web, 20 J. Legal Hist., Dec. 1999, at 109.

The Chadwyck-Healey “British Trials” Collection, 19 J. Legal Hist. 84 (1998).

Book Review, 54 Camb. L. J. 643 (1995) (reviewing J.P. Eigen, Witnessing Insanity: Madness and Mad-Doctors in the English Court (1995)), available at Hein-Online.

4. Entries in Reference Works:

Common Law, in 1 Reader's Guide to the Social Sciences 243 (Jonathan Michie ed., Fitzroy Dearborn 2001).

Trust Law, in 2 Reader's Guide to the Social Sciences 1697 (Jonathan Michie ed., Fitzroy Dearborn 2001).

5. Other Publications:

The Rise of Modern Evidence Law: A View from the “British Trials” Collection, Law Record [Ohio State University College of Law Alumni Magazine], Fall/Winter 1999, at 2.

Charitable Foundations: What We Have Learned in Twenty Years, 131 Tr. & Est., August 1992, at 12 (with Howard M. McCue, III), available at ProQuest.

The Newhouse Case: Complexity Results in a Low Value for Common Stock, 129 Tr. & Est., December 1990, at 54 (with Howard M. McCue, III), available at ProQuest.


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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