SCHOOL OF LAW

Mark L Ascher

Joseph D. Jamail Centennial Chair in Law

LLM New York University
JD Harvard
MA Kansas State University
BA Marquette

Professor Ascher joined the faculty in January 2000. Previously, he was the Ralph W. Bilby Professor at the University of Arizona College of Law in Tucson, Arizona. Widely considered to be one of the leading scholars of his generation in the field of trusts and estates, he is now the primary author of the leading treatise on Federal Income Taxation of Estates, Trusts, and Beneficiaries (Aspen, 3rd ed., 1998), and has taken over the leading treatise Scott on Trusts (which, in its fifth edition, is being renamed Scott & Ascher on Trusts). Professor Ascher is an academic fellow of the American College of Trust & Estate Counsel, a member of the American Law Institute, and an adviser to the ALI's Restatement (Third) of Trusts. He has also been a Visiting Professor at NYU School of Law and Cornell Law School. During the both the 2001-2002 and the 2006-2007 school years, Professor Ascher chaired the Faculty Appointments Committee.