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Books
Drafting New York Wills and Related Documents, Fourth Edition, co-authored with I. Bloom (LexisNexis, 2010)
Logic and Experience: The Origin of Modern American Legal Education (Oxford University Press, 1994)
Disclaimers in Estate Planning: A Guide to Their Effective Use, co-authored with R.A. Brand (American Bar Association, 1990)
New York Wills and Trusts, Third Edition, co-authored with J.G. McQuaid and F.W. Streng (Lexis Law Publishing, 1990)
Book Chapters
“Post-Mortem Planning,” Chapter 5 in New York University 72nd Institute on Federal Taxation, pgs. 5-1 to 5-88 (LexisNexis, 2014)
“The Beneficiary,” Chapter 8 in Drafting New York Wills: Law and Forms, Third Edition, pgs. 8-1 to 8-88 (LexisNexis Matthew Bender, 2003)
“Rights of Surviving Spouse,” Chapter 10 in Drafting New York Wills: Law and Forms, pgs. 10-1 to 10-146 (LexisNexis Matthew Bender, 2003)
“State Responses to the Repeal of the State Death Tax Credit,” Chapter 7 in 37th Annual Heckerling Institute on Estate Planning, pgs. 7-1 to 7-52 (LexisNexis Matthew Bender, 2003)
“Powers of Appointment,” Chapter 13 in Drafting New York Wills: Law and Forms, pgs. 13-1 to 13-51 (LexisNexis Matthew Bender, 2002)
“Principal and Income,” Chapter 14 in Drafting New York Wills: Law and Forms, pgs. 14-1 to 14-47 (LexisNexis Matthew Bender, 2002)
“Fiduciaries,” Chapter 16 in Drafting New York Wills: Law and Forms, pgs. 16-1 to 16-56 (LexisNexis Matthew Bender, 2001)
“Difficult Non-Tax Estate Planning Issues,” in Estate Planning in Depth, co-authored with J. Pennell, pgs. 137–156 (American Law Institute, 2000)
“Recent Non-Tax Developments,” in Estate Planning in Depth, pgs. 117–136 (American Law Institute, 2000)
“Estate Taxation,” Chapter 5 in Taxation for the General Practitioner, pgs. 189–217, (New York State Bar Association, 1999)
“Victorian from Beacon Hill: Oliver Wendell Holmes’s Early Legal Scholarship,” Chapter 76 in The History of Legal Education in the United States: Commentaries and Primary Sources, pgs. 1052–1068 (Salem Press, 1999)
“Fiduciary Income Taxation and Planning for the Complex Estate,” Chapter 2 in Valuation, Taxation and Other Planning Techniques for Large Estates, pgs. 103–179, (Practising Law Institute, 1997)
“Powers of Appointment,” Chapter 20 in The Handbook of Estate Planning, pgs. 349–370 (Dow-Jones Irwin, 1988)
Articles
“The Geography of Marriage,” 39 Estates, Gifts, Trusts Journal 3–10 (2014)
“Carryover Basis – Have We Learned from History?,” co-authored with M. Beckerman, 19 Probate & Property 38-41 (2005)
“Merit and Diversity: The Origins of the Law School Admissions Test,” 48 St. Louis University Law Journal 955–990 (2004)
“Some Property Law Issues in the Law of Disclaimers,” 38 Real Property, Probate and Trust Journal 207–239 (2003)
“Uniform Disclaimer of Property Interests,” 14 Probate & Property 57–61 (2000)
“Modern Coverture: Old Wine in Old Bottles,” 16 New York Law School Journal of Human Rights 181–184 (1999)
“Langdell Laughs,” 17 Law and History Review 141–144 (1999)
“The Income Taxation of New York Resident Trusts,” co-authored with E.C. Schwab, 68 New York State Bar Journal 30–35 (1996)
“Honor Langdell (Commentary),” 20 Law & Social Inquiry 761–764 (1995)
“Jurisprudence of History and Truth,” 23 Rutgers Law Journal 519–559 (1992)
“Just the Facts: The Field Code and the Case Method,” 36 New York Law School Law Review 287–336 (1991)
“The Legal Culture of the Formative Period in Sherman Act Jurisprudence,” 35 New York Law School Law Review 827–855 (1990)
“Victorian from Beacon Hill: Oliver Wendell Holmes’s Early Legal Scholarship,” 90 Columbia Law Review 809–833 (1990)
“Dusty Books and Living History: Why All Those Old State Reports Really Matter,” 81 Law Library Journal 33–39 (1989)
“‘A Task of No Common Magnitude’: The Founding of the American Law Institute,” 11 Nova Law Review 1085–1126 (1987)
“Final Disclaimer Regulations Offer Flexibility in the Use of General Powers of Appointment for the Marital Deduction,” co-authored with R.A. Brand, 65 Taxes 133–142 (1987)
“Swift v. Tyson and the Brooding Omnipresence in the Sky: An Investigation of the Idea of Law in Antebellum America,” 20 Suffolk University Law Review 771–832 (1986)
“Using Disclaimers Adds More Flexibility to ‘Escape Clauses’ for Taxable Insurance,” co-authored with R.A. Brand, 13 Estate Planning 278–281 (1986)
Other Writing
Contributing Author, Recent New York State Decisions, Trusts and Estates Law Section Newsletter (New York State Bar Association, 2005 – present)
Contributing Author, Keeping Current: Probate, Probate & Property (Section of the Real Property, Trust and Estate Law Section of the American Bar Association, 1994 – present)
Book Review of In Pursuit of Right and Justice: Edward Weinfeld as Lawyer and Judge by William E. Nelson, 231 New York Law Journal 2 (2004)
Book Review of Craftsmanship and Character: A History of the Vinson and Elkins Law Firm of Houston, 1917–1997 by Harold Hyman, 20 Law and History Review 215–216 (2002)
“The Private and the Public Faces of Realism,” Book Review of Roscoe Pound and Karl Llewellyn: Searching for an American Jurisprudence by N.E.H. Hull, H-Law, H-Net Reviews (1999)
“The Diversity of Merit,” Book Review of Beyond All Reason: The Radical Assault on Truth in American Law by Daniel A. Farber and Suzanna Sherry, H-Law, H-Net Reviews (1998)
Book Review of A Nation Under Lawyers: How the Crisis in the Legal Profession is Transforming American Society by Mary Ann Glendon, 15 Law and History Review 419–420 (1997)
Book Review of Patterns of American Jurisprudence by Neil Duxbury, 41 American Journal of Legal History 127–128 (1997)
“Thoughts and Lives” Book Reviews of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes: Law and the Inner Self by G. Edward White and Learned Hand: The Man and The Judge by Gerald Gunther, 39 New York Law School Law Review 607–635 (1994)
Book Review of The Documentary History of the Supreme Court of the United States, 1789–1800, Volume IV: Organizing the Federal Judiciary: Legislation and Commentaries, edited by M. Marcus, 37 New York Law School Law Review 467–473 (1992)
Book Review of Our Lady The Common Law: An Anglo-American Legal Community, 1870–1930 by Richard A. Cosgrove, 35 American Journal of Legal History 225–227 (1991)
“Logic and Experience: American Legal Thought and Legal Education, 1800–1920,” [Ph.D. Dissertation] (Harvard Law School, 1987)
Book Review of Malice and Falsehood: Six Issues of the ‘New York Weekly Journal’ 1733–34 by Mr. Zenger, 69 Western Pennsylvania Historical Magazine 263 (1986)
Software Review of Aardvark/McGraw-Hill’s “Estate Tax Planner,” 6 Journal of Law & Commerce 411–417 (1986)
