Nancy A. McLaughlin, Robert W. Swenson Professor of Law at the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law, received her J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1990 and a B.S. honors degree in psychology from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, in 1987, where she was a Commonwealth Scholar and elected to Phi Beta Kappa. Her scholarship focuses on conservation easements and nonprofit governance issues, and she writes and lectures extensively on these issues. She is a member of the American Law Institute, a fellow of The American College of Trust and Estate Counsel, a member of the Executive Committee of the Association of American Law School's Nonprofit & Philanthropy Law section, and an Observer to the Uniform Law Commission's Regulation of Charities project. Among other professional activities, she served as a member of the Land Trust Alliance's Conservation Easement Amendment Policy Group, which assisted the Alliance in drafting its report on amending conservation easements; she serves on the Alliance's Conservation Defense Advisory Council; she serves on the advisory board of Utah Open Lands and Vital Ground; she serves as a member of the Habitat Protection Advisory Committee of the Wildlife Land Trust; and, since 2000, she has served as a professional editor of the American Bar Association's Real Property, Trust & Estate Law Journal. Her published articles are available at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=95358.

Professor McLaughlin teaches Federal Income Tax, Trusts & Estates, Estate Planning, Gift & Estate Tax, Private Land Conservation, and a course on Conservation Easements.