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Highlights

  • Associate Reporter, Restatement Third of Trusts
  • Reporter, Uniform Real Property Transfer on Death Act
  • Adviser, American Law Institute Principles of the Law of Nonprofit Organizations
  • Assistant Executive Director, Joint Editorial Board for Uniform Trust and Estate Acts
  • "Reasonable Doubt and the History of the Criminal Trial," 76 Chicago Law Review 941 (2009)
  • "Making Sense of Blackstone's Puzzle: Why Forbid Defense Counsel?"; in Austin Sarat ed., Making Sense of Law's Past (forthcoming)

Thomas P. Gallanis

N. William Hines Professor of Law

Professor of History (secondary appointment)

Professor Thomas P. Gallanis 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 Iowa, he was the Julius E. Davis Professor of Law  and Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development at the University of Minnesota.

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. He has served as the Herbert Smith visiting professor in the law faculty of Cambridge University and as the Mason Ladd Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Iowa.

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 as Associate Reporter for the Restatement (Third) of Trusts and on the consultative group for the Restatement (Third) of Property (Wills and Other Donative Transfers). 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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