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Paula Monopoli
Professor of Law, Marbury Research Professor and
Founding Director, Women Leadership & Equality Program
Phone: (410) 706-4485
Fax: (410) 706-2184
E-mail:
Office: 431
BA, 1980, Yale University
JD, 1983, University of Virginia
Paula A. Monopoli is Professor of Law at the University of Maryland School of Law and the Founding Director of its Women, Leadership & Equality Program. She also holds the Marbury Research Professorship, a rotating research chair. Professor Monopoli received a B.A, cum laude, from Yale College in 1980, and a J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1983. She teaches in the area of Property, Estates & Trusts and Gender & the Law. Professor Monopoli has published widely in the area of ethics, fiduciary duty and has been recognized as an innovative scholar in the fields of gender and inheritance law. Her publications include "Gender and Constitutional Design" in the Yale Law Journal, "Gender and Justice: Parity and the United States Supreme Court" in The Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law, “In A Different Voice: Lessons from Ledbetter” in the Notre Dame Journal of College and University Law and the book, American Probate: Protecting the Public, Improving the Process (Northeastern University Press 2003). Her forthcoming book, Contemporary Approaches to Trusts and Estates Law (with Borison, Cahn and Gary) will be published by Aspen in 2010. Professor Monopoli has presented her research at Queens University Canada, Yale Law School, Queens University Belfast, the George Washington University School of Law and Santa Clara University Law School, among many others.
Professor Monopoli is an elected member of the American Law Institute and she sits on the ALI’s Consultative Committees for the Restatement Third of Property (Donative Transfers) and the Restatement Third of Trusts. She is an Academic Fellow of the American College of Trusts and Estates Counsel. Professor Monopoli was the 2004 Outstanding Professor of the Year at the University of Maryland School of Law and has been a Visiting Professor of Law at the George Washington University School of Law. She was selected as one of Maryland’s Top 100 Women by the Daily Record in 2009. Professor Monopoli is frequently consulted by such national publications as the New York Times, the Boston Globe and Money Magazine for her expertise in gender and inheritance law.
Books
Contemporary Approaches to Trusts and Estates Law (forthcoming 2010) (with others).
American Probate: Protecting the Public, Improving the Process (Northeastern Univ. Press 2003).
Articles
Women and the Gendered State, in Feminist Constitutionalism (forthcoming 2010) (with E. McDonagh).
Why So Slow: A Comparative View of Women’s Political Leadership, 24 Maryland Journal of International Law 857 (2009).
In a Different Voice: Lessons from Ledbetter, 34 University of Notre Dame Journal of College & University Law 555 (2008).
Nonmarital Children and Post-Death Parentage: A Different Path for Inheritance Law?, 48 Santa Clara Law Review 857 (2008).
Gender and Justice: Parity and the United States Supreme Court, 8 Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law 43 (2007). [Full Text]
Gender and Constitutional Design, 115 Yale Law Journal 2643 (2006). [Full Text]
Foreword: A Symposium Exploring the Role and Impact of Women in a Changing Corporate Environment, 65 Maryland Law Review 301 (2006). [Full Text]
Foreword: the Global Advancement of Women: Barriers and Best Practices, 6 University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class 276 (2006).
Drafting Attorneys as Fiduciaries: Fashioning an Optimal Ethical Rule for Conflicts of Interest, 66 University of Pittsburgh Law Review 411 (2005). [Full Text]
Foreword: The Sway of the Swing Vote: Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and Her Influence on Isues of Race, Religion, Gender and Class, 4 University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class 207 (2004). [Full Text]
Fiduciary Duty: A New Ethical Paradigm for Lawyer/Fiduciaries, 67 Missouri Law Review 309 (2002).
Free Speech Rationales after September 11th: The First Amendment in Post-World Trade Center America, 13 Stanford Law & Policy Review 185 (2002) (with M. Scordato), reprinted in The First Amendment Law Handbook 2002-2003 (2003)
Teaching Lawyers to Be More than Zealous Advocates, 2001 Wisconsin Law Review 1159.
Legal Ethics & Practical Politics: Musings on the Public Perception of Lawyer Discipline, 10 Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics 423 (Spring 1997).
“Deadbeat Dads”: Should Support and Inheritance Be Linked?, 49 University of Miami Law Review 257 (1994).
Habeas Corpus Proceedings, in Child Custody & Visitation Law & Practice (1992).
Allocating the Costs of Parental Free Exercise: Striking a New Balance Between Sincere Religious Belief and a Child's Right to Medical Treatment, 18 Pepperdine Law Review 319 (1991).
Preparing Witnesses for Trial in a Will Contest, in Estate Planning & Administration (1990) (with R. Zielinski).
