Mark L. Ascher
- Hayden W. Head Regents Chair for Faculty Excellence in the School of Law
- Professor
Mark Ascher is a scholar of trusts and estates. Since 1992, he has updated and revised "Scott on Trusts," which in its fifth edition became "Scott and Ascher on Trusts." Professor Ascher is an academic fellow of the American College of Trust & Estate Counsel and a life member of the American Law Institute, and he was an adviser to the Restatement (Third) of Trusts. He teaches courses on wills, trusts, and estates.
Professor Ascher joined the faculty in 2000. Previously, he was the Ralph W. Bilby Professor at the University of Arizona College of Law in Tucson, Arizona. Widely considered one of the leading scholars of his generation in the field of trusts and estates, he is the sole active author of two of the premier treatises in his field. Since 1992, he has updated and revised Scott on Trusts, which, in its fifth edition, became Scott and Ascher on Trusts. Half of the volumes of the sixth edition have already appeared. Since 1986, he has also updated and revised Federal Income Taxation of Estates, Trusts, and Beneficiaries, now in its fourth edition. Professor Ascher is an academic fellow of the American College of Trust & Estate Counsel and a life member of the American Law Institute. He was an adviser to the Restatement (Third) of Trusts. He has also been a Visiting Professor at NYU School of Law and Cornell Law School. During both the 2001-2002 and the 2006-2007 school years, Professor Ascher chaired the Faculty Appointments Committee. From 1978 to 1982, he was an associate at White & Case, in New York City.
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year-2014
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Article
Federalization of the Law of Charity
Mark L. Ascher, Federalization of the Law of Charity [Symposium: The Role of Federal Law in Private Wealth Transfer], 67 Vanderbilt Law Review 1581 (2014).
year-2013
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Book
Cases and Materials on Gratuitous Transfers: Wills, Intestate Succession, Trusts, Gifts, Future Interests, and Estate and Gift Taxation
Mark L. Ascher, Cases and Materials on Gratuitous Transfers: Wills, Intestate Succession, Trusts, Gifts, Future Interests, and Estate and Gift Taxation (St. Paul: West, 6th ed. 2013; 5th ed. 2007;4th ed. 1999; Teacher's Manual 1999) (with Elias Clark, Arthur W. Murphy & Grayson M. McCouch).
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Cases and Materials on Gratuitous Transfers: Wills, Intestate Succession, Trusts, Gifts, Future Interests, and Estate and Gift Taxation
Mark L. Ascher, Cases and Materials on Gratuitous Transfers: Wills, Intestate Succession, Trusts, Gifts, Future Interests, and Estate and Gift Taxation (St. Paul: West, 6th ed. 2013; 5th ed. 2007;4th ed. 1999; Teacher's Manual 1999) (with Elias Clark, Arthur W. Murphy & Grayson M. McCouch)
year-2011
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Article
The Grantor Trust Rules Should Be Repealed
Mark L. Ascher, The Grantor Trust Rules Should Be Repealed, 96 Iowa Law Review 885 (2011). -
Book Review
But I Thought the Earth Belonged to the Living
Mark L. Ascher, But I Thought the Earth Belonged to the Living, 89 Texas Law Review 1149 (2011) (reviewing Dead Hands: A Social History of Wills, Trusts, and Inheritance Law, by Lawrence M. Friedman).
year-2010
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Book
SELECTED STATUTES ON TRUSTS AND ESTATES
Mark L. Ascher, Selected Statutes on Trusts and Estates (St. Paul: Thomson/West, 2008-2010; St. Paul: West, 2001-2007) (with Grayson M. P. McCouch).
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Book
Federal Income Taxation of Estates, Trusts, and Beneficiaries
Mark L. Ascher, Federal Income Taxation of Estates, Trusts, and Beneficiaries (New York: Aspen Law & Business, 3rd ed. 1998; Boston: Little, Brown, 2nd ed. 1993; Annual Supplements 1987-2010) (with M. Carr Ferguson & James J. Freeland).
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Book
Selected Statutes on Trusts and Estates
Mark L. Ascher, Grayson M. P. McCouch, Selected Statutes on Trusts and Estates(St. Paul: Thomson/West, 2008-2010; St. Paul: West, 2001-2007)
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Scott and Ascher on Trusts: Cumulative Supplement
Mark L. Ascher, Margit T. Rigney, Scott and Ascher on Trusts: Cumulative Supplement, New York: Aspen Law & Business, 5th ed. (2007-2010)
year-2009
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Book Chapter
The Yale Biographical Dictionary of American Law
Mark L. Ascher. “The Yale Biographical Dictionary of American Law”
year-2008
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Book
Federal Income Taxation of Trusts and Estates: Cases, Problems, and Materials
Mark L. Ascher, Robert T. Danforth, Federal Income Taxation of Trusts and Estates: Cases, Problems, and Materials (Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 3rd ed. 2008; Annual Supplements 2009-2010)
year-2006
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Book
Scott and Ascher on Trusts
Mark L. Ascher, Austin Wakeman Scott, William Franklin Fratcher, Scott and Ascher on Trusts (8 vols.; New York: Aspen Law & Business, 5th ed., 2006)
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Scott on Trusts: Annual Supplements
Mark L. Ascher, Scott on Trusts: Annual Supplements (New York: Aspen Law & Business, 5th ed. 2006; 4th ed. 1993-2006)
year-2005
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Book
FEDERAL INCOME TAXATION OF TRUSTS AND ESTATES: CASES, PROBLEMS, AND MATERIALS
Mark L. Ascher, Federal Income Taxation of Trusts and Estates: Cases, Problems, and Materials (Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2nd ed. 1996, 1st ed. 1988; Teacher's Manuals 1996, 1988; Annual Supplements 1989-2005).
year-2004
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Book
SCOTT ON TRUSTS: ANNUAL SUPPLEMENTS
Mark L. Ascher, Scott on Trusts: Annual Supplements (New York: Aspen Law & Business, 5th ed. 2006; 4th ed. 1993-2006).
year-2002
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Article
Recent Regulatory Developments Relating to Subchapter J
Mark L. Ascher, Recent Regulatory Developments Relating to Subchapter J, 36 Proceedings of the Annual University of Miami Philip E. Heckerling Institute on Estate Planning 12-1 (2002).
year-1999
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Article
The Income Taxation of Trusts in the United States
Mark L. Ascher, The Income Taxation of Trusts in the United States, 53 Bulletin for International Fiscal Documentation 146 (1999). -
Article
Tax Planning with Consensual Community Property: Alaska's New Community Property Law
Mark L. Ascher, Tax Planning with Consensual Community Property: Alaska's New Community Property Law, 33 Real Property, Probate & Trust Journal 615 (1999) (with Jonathan G. Blattmachr & Howard M. Zaritsky).
year-1998
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Book
Federal Income Taxation of Estates, Trusts, and Beneficiaries
Mark L. Ascher, M. Carr Ferguson, James J. Freeland, Federal Income Taxation of Estates, Trusts, and Beneficiaries (New York: Aspen Law & Business, 3rd ed. 1998; Boston: Little, Brown, 2nd ed. 1993; Annual Supplements 1987-2010)
year-1996
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Book
Federal Income Taxation of Trusts and Estates: Cases, Problems, and Materials
Mark L. Ascher, Federal Income Taxation of Trusts and Estates: Cases, Problems, and Materials (Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2nd ed. 1996, 1st ed. 1988; Teacher's Manuals 1996, 1988; Annual Supplements 1989-2005)