Background

Mark Glover teaches Wills, Trusts, and Estates and Property. His scholarship focuses on the law of succession and employs economic analysis and original empirical research.

Prior to joining the faculty at the University of South Carolina School of Law, Professor Glover was a faculty member at the University of Wyoming College of Law, where he taught Trusts and Estates, Contracts, and Secured Transactions. Professor Glover has also taught at Boston College as a Visiting Professor of Law and at Louisiana State University as a Teaching Fellow and Assistant Professor of Professional Practice. Before entering academia, Professor Glover practiced commercial law at Weil, Gotshal & Manges in New York.

Professor Glover holds a B.A in economics from Washington University in St. Louis, a J.D. from Boston University School of Law, where he was a member of the Boston University Law Review, and an LL.M. from Harvard Law School.

Recent Scholarship

• Nominal Bequests, 59 U.C. Davis L. Rev. 731 (2025). 
• The Unconventional Wisdom of Fragmented Wills, 67 Ariz. L. Rev. 61 (2025). 
• Absent Heirs, 52 Pepperdine L. Rev. 675 (2025). 
• Conditional Purging of Wills, 57 U. Rich. L. Rev. 275 (2023).
• Crimes Against Probate, 75 Fla. L. Rev. 357 (2023) (with Kevin Bennardo).

Education

• B.A. Bennet College
• J.D. University of Pennsylvania, School of Law

Teaching

• Wills, Trusts, and Estates (LAWS 641)
• Property (LAWS 509)