Mark L. Ascher

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Mark L. Ascher is an American law professor, currently the Hayden W. Head Regents Chair for Faculty Excellence, and previously the Joseph D. Jamail Centennial Chair, and the Sylvan Lang Professor, at the University of Texas School of Law, and also previously the Ralph W. Bilby Professor at the James E. Rogers College of Law of the University of Arizona. [1] [2]

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The fifth edition of Scott and Ascher on Trusts, formerly published as Scott on Trusts and written by Mark L. Ascher, Austin Wakeman Scott and William Franklin Fratcher, is widely regarded as the leading authority on the law of trusts. [3]

Ascher's textbook, Federalization of the Law of Charity, released in 2014, is discussed in the Vanderbilt Law Review. [4]

Federal Income Taxation of Trusts and Estates: Cases, Problems, and Materials, Fourth Edition, by Mark L. Ascher and Robert T. Danforth, was released by Carolina Academic Press in 2008. [5]

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References

  1. "Mark L. Ascher". utexas.edu. Retrieved December 17, 2016.
  2. "Ascher, Mark L." worldcat.org. Retrieved December 17, 2016.
  3. Ascher, Mark L. (2006). Scott and Ascher on Trusts. Aspen Publishers. ISBN   9780735576582 via Google Books.
  4. "Is Federalization of Charity Law All Bad? What States Can Learn from the Internal Revenue Code". Vanderbilt Law Review. November 19, 2014.
  5. "Federalization of the Law of Charity". Vanderbilt Law Review.