University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law

The urban public law school with a small liberal arts feel

Julia Belian Visiting Associate Professor of Law; B.A. (Southwestern University); M.Div. (Yale University); J.D. (Emory University) email 816-235-1662 Vita class links Visiting Associate Professor Julia Belian is a native Texan and a former journalist, which, when added to her experience practicing law, makes her a member of three of the most fun-to-hate cultural groups in America. Belian earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Philosophy cum laude in 1980 from Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas. After ten years as a copy editor and news editor at a mid-sized daily newspaper in West Texas, she completed a Master of Divinity degree at Yale University in 1993 and then earned her J.D., with distinction, at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1996. At Emory, Belian was honored with the Clark Boardman Callaghan Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Law School and was elected to the Order of the Coif. She is a member of the bars and has practiced in both Minnesota (Faegre & Benson, LLP) and California (Morrison & Foerster, LLP), with most of her experience in the fields of estate planning and exempt organization law. From 2002 to 2006, she taught Property Law, Estates & Trusts, Estate Planning, Legal History, and Elder Law at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska. Belian’s scholarship has focused on legal history as well as subjects involving estates & trusts, estate planning, and elder law. She has recently joined as co-author of Elder Law: Readings, Cases, and Materials (Lexis-Nexis 3d ed. forthcoming) and its companion statutory supplement (with Dayton and Wood). You can access my papers on the Social Science Research Network (SSRN) at: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=355445