University of Georgia
School of Law
312 Hirsch Hall
Athens, GA 30602
United States
B.A., Arizona State University
J.D., California Western School of Law
LL.M., New York University
Estate Planning Seminar
Estate and Gift Tax
Victoria J. Haneman joined 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.
BOOKS
FEDERAL TAXES ON GRATUITOUS TRANSFERS: LAW AND PLANNING (Aspen 2d ed. 2023) (with Joseph M. Dodge, Wendy C. Gerzog, Bridget J. Crawford & Jennifer Bird-Pollan).
PLANNING FOR LARGE ESTATES (Matthew Bender Elite Prod. 2023 Update).
QUESTIONS & ANSWERS: WILLS, TRUSTS, AND ESTATES (Carolina Academic Press 4th ed. 2023) (with Thomas M. Featherston).
CASES AND MATERIALS ON MAKING TAX LAW (Carolina Academic Press 2014) (with Daniel M. Berman).
BOOK CHAPTERS
Change Management at the Antiracist Law School in ANTIRACIST LEADERSHIP: BUILDING AN ANTIRACIST LAW SCHOOL, LEGAL ACADEMY, AND LEGAL PROFESSION (UC Press forthcoming).
Of Grading Rubrics and Formative Assessment in LAWYERING SKILLS IN THE DOCTRINAL CLASSROOM (Carolina Academic Press 2020).
ARTICLES
The Law of Digital Resurrection, 66 B.C. L. Rev. 1569 (2025).
Tax Sheltering Death Care, 2025 Wis. L. Rev. 623 (2025).
Taxing Dirty Luxuries, 56 Case W. Res. J. Int’l L. 197 (2024) (symposium).
529 Plans and School Choice, 21 Pitt. Tax Rev. 81 (2024) (symposium).
The Abandonment of International College Athletes by NIL Policy, 101 N.C. L. Rev. 1599 (2023) (with David P. Weber).
Prepaid Death, 59 Harv. J. on Legisl. 329 (2022).
Dynasty 529 Plans and Structural Inequity, 61 Washburn L.J. 497 (2022) (symposium).
Alkaline Hydrolysis, 47 ACTEC L.J. 55 (2021) (symposium).
Period Poverty, Menstruation Capitalism, and the Role of the B Corporation, 41 Colum. J. Gender & L. 133 (2021) (symposium).
Funeral Poverty, 55 U. Rich. L. Rev. 387 (2021).
(Re)Framing Student Loan Debt as a Commons, 84 Law & Contemp. Probs. 153 (2021) (symposium).
Tax Incentives for Green Burial, 21 Nev. L.J. 491 (2021).
Intergenerational Equity, Student Loan Debt, and Taxing Rich Dead People, 39 Va. Tax. Rev. 179 (2019).
Contemplating Homeownership Tax Subsidies and Structural Racism, 54 Wake Forest L. Rev. 363 (2019) (symposium).
Retrenchment, Temporary-Effect Legislation, and the Home Mortgage Interest Deduction, 71 Okla. L. Rev. 2 (2019).
Everybody Dies. Or, A Consideration of Simultaneous Death Statutes and the Struggles of the Self-Represented, 32 Notre Dame J.L. Ethics & Pub. Pol’y 221 (2018).
Bridging the Justice Gap with a (Purposeful) Restructuring of Small Claims Court, 39 W. New Eng. L. Rev. 457 (2017) (symposium).
Marriage, Millennials, and Massive Student Loan Debt, 2 Concordia L. Rev. 103 (2017) (invited).
The Collision of Student Loan Debt and Joint Marital Taxation, 35 Va. Tax. Rev. 223 (2016).
Incorporation of Outcome-Based Learning Approaches into the Design of (Incentive) Trusts, 61 S.D. L. Rev. 404 (2016) (symposium).
A Timely Proposal to Eliminate the Student Loan Interest Deduction, 14 Nev. L.J. 156 (2013).
The Inappropriate Imposition of Court-Ordered Mediation in Will Contests, 59 Clev. St. L. Rev. 513 (2011).
Changing the Estate Planning Malpractice Landscape: Applying the Constructive Trust to Cure Testamentary Mistake, 80 UMKC L. Rev. 91 (2011).
120 Hours Until the Consistent Treatment of Simultaneous Death Under the California Probate Code, 34 Nova L. Rev. 449 (2010) (with Jennifer M. Booth).
The Ethical Exploitation of the Unrepresented Consumer, 73 Mo. L. Rev. 707 (2008).