Professor Thomas P. Gallanis is Allison and Dorothy Rouse Chair in Law and Executive Director of the Global Wealth Management Project at the Antonin Scalia Law School of George Mason University. He is also a chair visiting professor at the KoGuan Law School of Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He received his BA summa cum laude in history from Yale, his JD from UChicago where he was a Bradley fellow in legal history, and his LLM and PhD from Cambridge. He is an internationally renowned expert on trust, succession, property, and fiduciary law, with particular interest in their comparative and cross-border aspects. He is also a prize-winning legal historian with expertise in English and European legal history. He is an elected member of the International Academy of Estate and Trust Law, the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel, and the American Law Institute. He has been a visiting fellow of All Souls College in Oxford, a Mellon fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, and the Herbert Smith Freehills visitor in the law faculty of Cambridge University.

Professor Gallanis is the executive director of the Uniform Law Commission’s Joint Editorial Board for Uniform Trust and Estate Acts, which oversees all uniform laws in the fields of trusts and succession. Within the American Law Institute, he served as associate reporter for the Restatement Third of Trusts and currently serves as an adviser to the Restatement Fourth of Property. Among his current book projects is an edition of the judicial notes of Sir Dudley Ryder (Chief Justice of the Court of King’s Bench, 1754-1756), to be published by the Selden Society.