Professor Garvey was born in Covington, Kentucky. He was educated at Xavier University in Cincinnati, receiving the B.A. degree in 1945. He attended the Catholic University Law School and was graduated with the LL.B degree in 1948. He pursued graduate studies at the University of Michigan, receiving the S.J.D. degree in 1967. In 1978, he was awarded the LL.D degree (Hon.) by Xavier University in recognition of his contributions to the Church, his profession, and society.

After several years of practice in Kentucky, Professor Garvey joined the faculty of the Law School in 1951. He rose to the rank of Ordinary Professor in 1965. He served as Associate Dean from 1963 to l969, and as Dean from l977 to 1979. He was elected to the American Law Institute in 1978 and to the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel in 1980. He remains active in these organizations as well as the American Bar Association's Section on Real Property, Probate and Trust Law. He publishes primarily in the field of Trusts and Estates, having contributed to dialogues on the validity and uses of will substitutes, the simplification and modernization of probate procedures, and the drafting of estate-planning instruments. Besides the course in Trusts and Estates, he taught Federal Taxation of Wealth Transfers and Remedies.

Research and Writing

BOOKS

The Probate Reform Act of 1980. St. Paul, Minn.: West Publishing Co., 1981 (with Michael Curtin).

Probate Court Practice in the District of Columbia, Supplement. St. Paul, Minn.: West Publishing Co., 1980.

Probate Court Practice in the District of Columbia, Supplement. St. Paul, Minn.: West Publishing Co., 1977.

Probate Court Practice in the District of Columbia, Supplement. St. Paul, Minn.: West Publishing Co., 1975.

Will and Testamentary Trust Forms. Washington, D.C.: Young Lawyers Section of the Bar Association of D.C., 1974 (with others).

Probate Court Practice in the District of Columbia, Supplement. St. Paul, Minn.: West Publishing Co., 1972.

Probate Court Practice in the District of Columbia, Supplement. St. Paul, Minn.: West Publishing Co., 1970.

Probate Court Practice in the District of Columbia, Supplement. St. Paul, Minn.: West Publishing Co., 1967.

Probate Court Practice in the District of Columbia, Supplement. St. Paul, Minn.: West Publishing Co., 1965.

Probate Court Practice in the District of Columbia, Supplement. St. Paul, Minn.: West Publishing Co., 1962.

Probate Court Practice in the District of Columbia, Supplement. St. Paul, Minn.: West Publishing Co., 1960.

BOOK CHAPTERS

"The Ohio Law of Trusts and the Uniform Probate Code." In Comparative Probate Law Studies. Philadelphia: American Law Institute, 1976.

BOOK REVIEWS

"Review of Property Law Indicted! by W. Barton Leach." Catholic University Law Review 17 (Spring 1968): 394.

"Review of Handbook of Modern Equity, Second Edition by William Q. DeFuniak." Catholic University Law Review 8 (January 1959): 53.

"Review of The American President by Sidney Hyman." Catholic University Law Review 5 (January 1955): 123.

JOURNAL ARTICLES

"Drafting Wills and Trusts: Anticipating the Birth and Death of Possible Beneficiaries." Oregon Law Review 71 (Spring 1992): 47.

"Revocable Gifts of Personal Property, Part II." Catholic University Law Review 16 (1967): 256.

"Revocable Gifts of Personal Property: A Possible Will Substitute." Catholic University Law Review 16 (November 1966): 119.

"Revocable Gifts of Personal Property, Part I." Catholic University Law Review 16 (September 1966): 119.

"Revocable Gifts of Legal Interests in Land." Kentucky Law Journal 54, no. 1 (1965): 19.

"Some Aspects of the Merger of Law and Equity." Catholic University Law Review 10 (May 1961): 59.

ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES

"Charitable Trusts (U.S.)." In The New Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1967.

"Wills and Intestacy (U.S.)." In The New Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1967.