Susan N. Gary
Susan Gary is the Orlando J. and Marian H. Hollis Professor of Law at the University of Oregon School of Law. Prior to joining the faculty she practiced estate planning and advised charitable organizations at Mayer, Brown & Platt (now Mayer Brown LLP) in Chicago and worked in international taxation at DeBandt, van Hecke and Lagae in Brussels. Her research examines the regulation of charities, fiduciary duties and the prudent investor rule, the definition of family for inheritance purposes, donor intent in connection with restricted charitable gifts, and the use of mediation in estate planning and probate. She is a Trustee of the University of Oregon Board of Trustees, an Academic Fellow and former Regent of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel, and a member of the Oregon Law Commission. She has been a member of Council of the Real Property, Trust and Estate Section of the ABA and chair of the Estate Planning and Administration Section of the Oregon State Bar. Prof. Gary served as Reporter for the Drafting Committees of the Uniform Law Commission that developed the Uniform Prudent Management of Institutional Funds Act (UPMIFA) and the Model Protection of Charitable Assets Act.
Books
• Mediation for Estate Planners: Managing Family Conflict, editor and chapter author (American Bar Association: 2016).
• Bogert’s Law of Trusts and Trustees, §§ 321-352 (2d ed. revised) (2015).
Articles
• Values and Value: University Endowments, Fiduciary Duties, and ESG Investing, 42 The Journal of College and University Law 247 (2016).
• Definitions of Children and Descendants: Construing and Drafting Wills and Trust Instruments, 5 Texas Tech Estate Planning and Community Property Law Journal 283 (2013).
• The Probate Definition of Family: A Proposal for Guided Discretion in Intestacy, 45 Mich. J. of L. Reform (2012).
• Is It Prudent to be Responsible: The Legal Rules for Charities that Engage in Socially Responsible Investing and Mission Investing, 6 Nw. J.L. & Soc. Pol'y 106 (2011).
• The Problems with Donor Intent: Interpretation, Enforcement, and Doing the Right Thing, 85 Chicago-Kent L. Rev. 977 (2010).
• We Are Family: The Definition of Parent and Child for Succession Purposes, 34 ACTEC Journal 171 (2008).
• Charities, Endowments, and Donor Intent: The Uniform Management of Institutional Funds Act, 41 Georgia L. Rev. 1277 (2007).
• Transfer-on-Death Deeds: the Nonprobate Revolution Continues.” 41 Real Prop., Prob. & Trust J. 529 (2007).