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 Pamela R. Champine
Professor of Law
Director of Core Curriculum, Graduate Tax Program
Pamela R. Champine, an expert in the law of estates and trusts and related aspects of taxation, has written and practiced extensively in these areas. Her years of experience, first in private practice and later as law secretary to Manhattan Surrogate Eve Preminger, lend a practical perspective to her teaching and scholarship.
In the classroom, Professor Champine brings doctrine to life with simulations of real world practice while also challenging students to examine critically the policies underlying doctrine. This approach to teaching places rigorous demands on students, she acknowledges, but she has found that they rise to the challenge.
Professor Champine’s scholarship in the area of trusts and estates focuses on how law reform proposals will affect estate planning for the general population. Her article “My Will Be Done. . .” argues that a well-intentioned effort to lift restrictions prohibiting correction of mistakes in wills actually harms individuals by allowing courts to change bequests in wills against the testator’s wishes. Her most recent article, “A Blueprint for Testamentary Capacity Reform,” advocates substantive and procedural changes to the law of testamentary capacity in order to produce more objective judgments when a disinherited family member contests a will. She has lectured extensively and has worked with bar groups on both reform proposals.
In addition, Professor Champine writes about federal taxation. Her present work analyzes the interplay of general deduction limitations and the special rules for income taxation of trusts in an effort to determine whether that interplay produces unintended or undesirable results.
Professor Champine lives in Greenwich Village with her husband and daughter. |
Contact information:
T: 212-431-2866
F: 212-431-1830
E: pchampine@nyls.edu
O: C405
Assistant: Silvy Singh
T: 212-431-2124
E: ssingh@nyls.edu
O: B409
Education:
University of Illinois, B.S. 1985
Northwestern, J.D. 1988
New York University, LL.M. (Taxation) 1990.
Served as Law Secretary to Surrogate Eve Preminger and Principal Court Attorney, Surrogate’s Court. Experienced at trusts and estates, serving in related functions with New York State and City of New York Bar Associations.
Courses:
Property
Wills, Trusts, & Future
Interests
Income Taxation of
Trusts and Estates
Problems of Timing
At New York Law School since 2000.
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