Titles

Sol & Carlyn Hubert Professor of Law

School Affiliation

Carey School of Law

Specialties

• Gender Equality
• Gender and the Law
• Gender and Constitutional Design

About

Paula Monopoli is the Sol & Carlyn Hubert Professor of Law at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law where she founded its Women, Leadership & Equality Program. Professor Monopoli received her BA cum laude, from Yale College, and her JD from the University of Virginia School of Law. She teaches in the areas of Property, Trusts & Estates and Gender and the Law. Professor Monopoli has held several visiting appointments, most recently as a visiting scholar at the Møller Institute, Churchill College, University of Cambridge. Professor Monopoli has published widely on the intersection of gender and constitutional design. She is the author of Constitutional Orphan: Gender Equality and the Nineteenth Amendment (Oxford University Press 2020) and three previous books, American Probate, Law and Leadership and Contemporary Trusts and Estates. Her articles include “Gender and Constitutional Design” in the Yale Law Journal, “Marriage, Property and [In]Equality” in the Yale Law Journal Online, “Gender and Justice: Parity and the United States Supreme Court” in The Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law, and “The Gendered State and Women’s Political Leadership” (with McDonagh) in Feminist Constitutionalism (Cambridge University Press). Professor Monopoli has presented her research at Oxford University, University College Dublin, Yale Law School, the University of Michigan Law School, the University of Texas Law School, Boston University School of Law, the Wake Forest University School of Law, the University of Virginia School of Law, among many others. Professor Monopoli is an elected member of the American Law Institute and is an academic fellow of the American College of Trusts and Estates Counsel. She has received a number of teaching awards, including the University of Maryland, Baltimore Founders Week award, the law school’s Outstanding Professor of the Year award, and Maryland’s Top 25 Women Professors by StateStats.org. Professor Monopoli has also been selected as one of Maryland’s Top 100 Women by the Daily Record and she received the Baltimore Bar Foundation’s 2020 Fellows Award for exceptional contributions in furthering the understanding of the role of law in our democratic society.

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This information was last updated January 2, 2025.