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Lisa Milot

Assistant Professor of Law

B.A., New College
M.A., New York University
J.D., University of Virginia

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Courses

Property
Trusts & Estates I
Federal Estate and Gift Tax

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Biographical Information

Lisa Milot joined the Georgia Law faculty in 2007 as an assistant professor specializing in federal taxation and property law.

Milot comes to Georgia Law with a considerable amount of law firm experience. For five years prior to joining the faculty, she practiced with the tax firm of Ivins, Phillips & Barker in Washington, D.C., where she was a special partner in the tax and estate planning group. Prior to that, she was an associate in the business group at the firm Cooley Godward Kronish in Reston, Va.

Her research focuses on the taxation of human bodies, policies behind and social implications of the recent expansion of trust law, and legal implications of new reproductive technologies and non-traditional family forms. Her scholarship includes "The Case Against Tax Incentives for Organ Transfers," published in the Willamette Law Review.

Milot earned her bachelor's degree from New College of Florida and her master's degree in social anthropology from New York University. In 2001, she earned her J.D. from the University of Virginia, where she served as articles editor of the Virginia Law Review and was inducted into the Order of the Coif.

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