Law Review Symposium Fall 2025
The Global Wealth Management Project is delighted to announce that it has received a second grant from the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC) Foundation. This grant will sponsor the Fall 2025 symposium of the George Mason Law Review. The symposium, organized by Professor Thomas P. Gallanis, will bring leading scholars to Scalia Law in September 2025 to present papers on “The Law and Economics of Wealth Management and Transmission.”
The keynote address will be given by Professor James R. Hines Jr. of the University of Michigan.
Papers will be presented by the following scholars:
- Yun-chien Chang (Cornell University)
- Thomas Gallanis (George Mason University)
- Mark Gergen (University of California, Berkeley)
- Richard Kaplan (University of Illinois)
- Saul Levmore (University of Chicago)
- Julia Mahoney (University of Virginia) & Paul Mahoney (University of Virginia)
- CJ Ryan (Indiana University, Bloomington), David Horton (University of California, Davis) & Reid Weisbord (Rutgers University, Newark)
- David Schizer (Columbia University)
- Robert Sitkoff (Harvard University) & Max Schanzenbach (Northwestern University)
The keynote address and the papers will be published in volume 33, issue 2, of the George Mason Law Review.
Trust and Succession Law Workshop 2024
The Global Wealth Management Project is delighted to announce that it has received a grant from the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC) Foundation to host a Trust and Succession Law Workshop on November 1–2, 2024. The Workshop, organized by Professor Thomas P. Gallanis, brings trusts and estates professors from across the country to Scalia Law to discuss their academic research in progress. The scholars and their research projects are:
- Alexander Boni-Saenz (University of Minnesota), Second-Best Donative Intent
- Felix Chang (Moritz College of Law, Ohio State University), Shadow Probate
- Thomas Gallanis (Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University), American Revolutions in the Law of Trusts
- Sheldon Lyke (Loyola University Chicago), Non-Fungible Testaments
- Nancy McLaughlin (University of Utah), Donor Standing
- Ronald Scalise (Tulane University), The State as Heir
- Jeffrey Stake (Indiana University Bloomington), Personalizing the Law of Wills
- Stewart Sterk (Cardozo Law School, Yeshiva University) & Reid Weisbord (Rutgers University), Joint Bank Accounts
- Emily Stolzenberg (Villanova University), Things of Value
- James Toomey (University of Iowa), Executor Discretion
- Danaya Wright (University of Florida), Was Norman Dacey Right?