Victoria J. Haneman

Victoria J. Haneman will join the University of Georgia School of Law in the fall of 2025 as the holder of the Verner F. Chaffin Chair in Fiduciary Law.

Haneman comes to UGA from Creighton University, where she was a member of the law school’s faculty for seven years. In 2023, she was appointed the associate dean for research and innovation. She also held the Frank J. Kellegher Professorship of Trusts & Estates and served as the interim director of the health law program for the 2023-24 academic year. 

Specializing in taxation, wills, trusts and estates, and business associations, Haneman has published extensively in flagship and specialty law reviews, including the Boston College Law Review, the Wisconsin Law Review, the North Carolina Law Review, the Wake Forest Law Review, the Harvard Journal on Legislation and the Columbia Journal of Gender and Law. She has also co-authored four books, including Planning for Large Estates; Questions & Answers: Wills, Trusts, and Estates, 4th ed.; Federal Taxes of Gratuitous Transfers: Law & Planning, 2d ed.; and Making Tax Law. 

Haneman has a particular interest in tax policy, death care services, industry disruption, emerging markets, and women and the law. She frequently provides expert commentary to leading media outlets such as PBS NewsHour, Newsweek, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Forbes, Washington Post, the Associated Press, National Public Radio and Bloomberg. 

A recipient of several scholarship and teaching awards, Haneman has held leadership positions in the Women in Legal Education, Trust and Estates, and the Aging and the Law sections of the Association of American Law Schools. She is also an Academic Fellow in the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel.