Paula Monopoli is the Sol & Carlyn Hubert Professor of Law at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law, where she founded the Women, Leadership & Equality Program. 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, and estates and gender and the law. Monopoli has held several visiting appointments, most recently as a visiting scholar at the Møller Institute, Churchill College, University of Cambridge.

Monopoli has written 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 and book chapters include “Gender and Constitutional Design” in the Yale Law Journal, “Marriage, Property and [In]Equality” in the Yale Law Journal Online, “Feminist Legal History and Legal Pedagogy” in the Virginia Law Review Online, “Gender, Voting Rights, and the Nineteenth Amendment” in the Georgetown Journal of Law & Public Policy, and “The Gendered State and Women’s Political Leadership” in Feminist Constitutionalism (with Ellen McDonagh; Cambridge University Press).

Monopoli has presented her research at Oxford University, University College Dublin, Yale Law School, the University of Virginia School of Law, the University of Michigan Law School, the University of Texas Law School, Boston University School of Law, and the Wake Forest University School of Law, among many others.

Monopoli is an elected member of the American Law Institute and an Academic Fellow of the American College of Trusts and Estates Counsel. She has received a number of teaching awards, including University of Maryland, Baltimore Founders Week Teacher of the Year, Maryland Carey Law’s Outstanding Professor of the Year, and Maryland’s Top 25 Women Professors by StateStats.org.

Monopoli has also been selected as one of Maryland’s Top 100 Women by The Daily Record and 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.