Mark L. Ascher

Professor Ascher joined the UT Law 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. In 2025, he completed the sixth edition. 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.