Charitable Donations, estate planning, Estates, Nonprofit Organizations, Nonprofits, Trusts and estates
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.
Corporate Activism, cryptocurrency, Estates
Frank J. Kellegher, Professor of Trusts & Estates at Creighton University鈥檚 School of Law. A leading author and researcher with a corporate transactional practice background, Victoria Haneman is an expert on varied interpretations, implications, and applications of American tax law related to a wide range of topics and industries, including trusts, estates, death care, student dept, cryptocurrency and NCAA Name, Image and Likeness standards. In addition to publishing more than 20 law review articles, essays, and book chapters, Haneman co-authored 鈥淢aking Tax Law鈥 and co-authored 鈥淔ederal Taxes of Gratuitous Transfers: Law & Planning 2d. ed.鈥 She serves as Chair-Elect for the Association of American Law School鈥檚 (AALS) Trusts and Estates Section and serves as Chair for the AALS Section on Women in Legal Education. Haneman was elected as an Academic Fellow to the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC). She received the Student Bar Association Professor of the Year Award at both the University of La Verne College of Law and California Western School of Law. Haneman is a skilled communicator who teaches a variety of law courses, mentors students, and advocates for gender equity initiatives. She鈥檚 been featured by numerous major news media outlets, including the New York Times, PBS NewsHour, The Wall Street Journal, and Fox Business.