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BACKGROUND Ray Madoff is a Professor at Boston College Law School where she teaches trusts and estates, estate and gift tax, estate planning, and a seminar on immortality and the law. Professor Madoff is a regular commentator on matters of death and the law. She has published several op-eds in the New York Times as well as in the Los Angeles Times and the Boston Globe and has been quoted in the Wall Street Journal and Christian Science Monitor. She has appeared on dozens of radio shows, including All Things Considered, Marketplace and the Leonard Lopate Show. Professor Madoff is the author of Immortality and the Law: The Rising Power of the American Dead (Yale 2010), which looks at how American law treats the interests of the dead and what this tells us about our values for the living, and has done a number of radio interviews on the subject: "Legally Dead," (The Leonard Lopate Show, WNYC Radio), "Changes to U.S. Taxing After Death," (Marketplace), and "The Rising Power of the American Dead," (AARP Radio: Prime Time Focus), among others. For a full list, click here. She is also the lead author of Practical Guide to Estate Planning (CCH), and has written in a wide variety of areas involving property and death. Professor Madoff is an experienced mediator and leading authority on the use of mediation to resolve will and trust disputes. Prior to teaching, she was a practicing attorney for 10 years in New York and Boston. Professor Madoff is a member of the American Law Institute, an Academic Fellow of the American College of Trusts and Estates Counsel and the Chair of the Donative Transfers Section of the American Association of Law Schools. She also serves on the Board of Directors of the ACTEC Foundation. EDUCATION A.B., Brown University; J.D., LL.M., New York University. RECENT ACTIVITIES "How the Law Constructs Its Understanding About Death" in Children and Death: From Biological to Religious Conception, (Victoria Talwar, Paul Harris, and Michael Schleifer, eds.) (Cambridge University Press 2010) "The Body in American Law: An Historical Perspective" in Contested Commodities, (Michele Goodwin, ed) (New York University Press 2010) Presentations: "Over My Dead Body: The Curious History of Dead Bodies Under American Law," Center for Humanities at Tufts, Medford, MA. March 11, 2010 "What Leona Helmsley Can Teach Us About the Charitable Deduction?" The Law of Philanthropy in the 21st Century, Chicago, IL. October 23, 2009 "Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Estate Planning* But Were Afraid to Ask," The Boston Foundation, Boston, MA. September 29, 2009 "CRATS and CRUTS and CLATS and CLUTS: The Dr. Seuss of Split Interest Gifts," Planned Giving Group of New England, Boston, MA. May 13, 2009 "Components of an Estate Plan," State Street Global Advisors, Boston, MA. April 27, 2009 "Introduction to American Law of Trusts," University of Barcelona. April 22, 2009 "The Law of the Dead," Law Culture and Humanities, Brown University, Providence, RI. March 19, 2009 “The Body in American Law: An Historical Perspective,” as part of a program at the University of Chicago Law School on Contested Commodities: Reframing the Debate on Financial Incentives in the Supply of Genetic Materials. April 2008 "Judicial discretion and settlement of will disputes," Presented at Law and Society on panel on Creating New Knowledge and Exploring New Approaches in the Law of Donative Transfers. Montreal, May 2008 “Overconfidence and Judicial Discretion: Do Winner-Take-All Rules Discourage Pre-Trial Agreement,” (With James Andreoni) Presented at Harvard Behavioral Economics Roundtable, Cambridge, MA. March 2007 “Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Mediation in Will and Trust Disputes* But Were Afraid to Ask,” Massachusetts Bar Association's Probate Litigation Group, Boston, MA. March 20, 2007 "Using Meditation to Resolve Estate and Trust Disputes," at the Thirty-ninth Annual Philip E. Heckerling Institute on Estate Planning at the University of Miami School of Law, Miami, Florida. January 2005 Appointments: Chair of the Association of American Law Schools Section on Donative Transfers, Fiduciaries, and Estate Planning. Elected to the Board of the ACTEC Foundation Teaching Award: Law Student’s Association Teaching Award for “Inspirational dedication to the Boston College Law School Community,” 2000 Other: Op-Ed "America Builds an Aristocracy." New York Times, July 12, 2010. Op-Ed "Protect the Farm, Tax the Manor." New York Times November 21, 2009. Op-Ed on the Leona Helmsley Charitable Trust for dogs in New York Times. July 9, 2008 podcast with New York Times editor David Shipley on the Helmsley Trust. Subscribe/Listen (iTunes) Recently appeared on KCRW radio discussing the new "super-rich" in America. Serving on committee to consider whether Massachusetts should adopt the Uniform Trust Code. Recipient of grant from ACTEC foundation to study the use of mediation in resolving will and trust disputes. COURSES Fall 2010: Trusts and Estates, Estate and Gift Tax PUBLICATIONS
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