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Susan N. Gary has taught trusts and estates, estate planning, nonprofit organizations, and an undergraduate course on law and families. As a professor emerita and formerly Orlando J. and Marian H. Hollis Professor at the University of Oregon School of Law, Gary has written and spoken about the regulation of charities and fiduciary duties, including the prudent investor standard, purpose trusts (also known as stewardship trusts) as a new form of business ownership, the definition of family for inheritance purposes, donor intent in connection with restricted charitable gifts, and the use of mediation to manage conflict in the estate planning context. 

Gary received her B.A. from Yale University and her J.D. from Columbia University. Before entering academia, she practiced with Mayer, Brown & Platt in Chicago, and with DeBandt, van Hecke & Lagae in Brussels. She is a member of the American Law Institute and an Academic Fellow and former Regent of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel, the preeminent U.S. organization for estate planning lawyers and academics. She has also served on the Council of the Real Property, Trust and Estate Section of the American Bar Association. She served as the Reporter for three projects of the Uniform Law Commission: the Electronic Wills Drafting Committee, the Uniform Prudent Management of Institutional Funds Act, and the Model Protection of Charitable Assets Act. She is currently a member of the Fiduciary Duty Working Group of the Intentional Endowments Network and has served as a member of the Advisory Board of the NYU National Center on Philanthropy and the Law. She has held leadership positions in three sections (trusts and estates, elder law, and nonprofits) of the Association of American Law Schools.

Significant recent articles are 鈥淏est Interests in the Long Term: Fiduciary Duties and ESG Investing,鈥� 90 Univ. of Colorado L. Rev. 731 (2019) and 鈥淭he Oregon Stewardship Trust: A New Type of Purpose Trust that Enables Steward-Ownership of a Business,鈥� 88 Univ. of Cincinnati L. Rev. 707 (2019). Both are available on SSRN.

Robert L. Fischer is an Associate Professor at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences of Case Western Reserve University, where he leads a range of evaluation research studies and teaches evaluation methods to graduate students in social work and nonprofit management. He is also Co-Director of the . Since 2001, he has led the Center’s research on Invest in Children, a county-wide early childhood initiative that includes home visiting, children’s health, and childcare components. Dr. Fischer is also faculty director of the  degree program.



The Center on Urban Poverty and Community Development
Robert L. Fischer, Ph.D is Co-Director of the Center on Urban Poverty and Community Development. The Center on Urban Poverty and Community Development seeks to address the problems of persistent and concentrated urban poverty and is dedicated to understanding how social and economic changes affect low-income communities and their residents. Based in Cleveland, the Center views the city as both a tool for building communities and producing change locally, and as a representative urban center from which nationally-relevant research and policy implications can be drawn.
Robert L. Fischer is an Associate Professor at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences of Case Western Reserve University, where he leads a range of evaluation research studies and teaches evaluation methods to graduate students in social work and nonprofit management. He is also Co-Director of the . Since 2001, he has led the Center’s research on Invest in Children, a county-wide early childhood initiative that includes home visiting, children’s health, and childcare components. Dr. Fischer is also faculty director of the  degree program.



The Center on Urban Poverty and Community Development
Robert L. Fischer, Ph.D is Co-Director of the Center on Urban Poverty and Community Development. The Center on Urban Poverty and Community Development seeks to address the problems of persistent and concentrated urban poverty and is dedicated to understanding how social and economic changes affect low-income communities and their residents. Based in Cleveland, the Center views the city as both a tool for building communities and producing change locally, and as a representative urban center from which nationally-relevant research and policy implications can be drawn.

Education



Doctor of Philosophy 
Vanderbilt University




Master of Public Policy
 
Vanderbilt University




Bachelor of Arts
 
Duke University





Additional Information

Concentration

Master of Nonprofit Organizations (Chair)
Undergraduate Minor in Social Work
Community Practice for Social Change

Affiliation

Faculty Associate, 

With expertise in a variety of aspects of marketing and retailing, Parker teaches about digital platforms and the impact social media can have on someone's personal and professional brands. Originally starting her career in the political arena, she realized her favorite part of the job was the marking components of the campaigns. Volunteering and supporting nonprofit agencies is something Parker has always done and an easy fit for additional research. The social media research she has conducted about the blurred lines of work and personal social media use, and employer social media governance and employee social media use have landed in scholarly journals. 
Parker earned her bachelor's in history from California State University Sacramento, master's from Cameron University and her doctorate from Louisiana Tech.