Parent Categories
Property Law
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Book Review: Current Issues in Succession Law; Passing Wealth on Death: Will-Substitutes in Comparative Perspective
August 19, 2026
Robert H. Sitkoff, Book Review, 76 Cambridge L.J. 674 (2017) (reviewing Birke Häcker & Charles Mitchell, Current Issues in Succession Law (2016) & Passing Wealth…
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Wills, Trusts, and Estates
August 19, 2026
Robert H. Sitkoff & Jesse Dukeminier, Wills, Trusts, and Estates (Wolters Kluwer Law & Bus. 10th ed. 2017).
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Top-Down versus Bottom-Up Law Reform in Trusts and Estates: Future Interests and Perpetuities
August 19, 2026
Robert H. Sitkoff, Top-Down versus Bottom-Up Law Reform in Trusts and Estates: Future Interests and Perpetuities, JOTWELL (Nov. 22, 2010).
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Trusts and Estates: Implementing Freedom of Disposition
August 19, 2026
Robert H. Sitkoff, Trusts and Estates: Implementing Freedom of Disposition, 58 St. Louis U. L.J. 643 (2014).
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Robert H. Sitkoff & David Feder, Revocable Trusts and Incapacity Planning: More than Just a Will Substitute, 24 Elder L.J. 1 (2016).
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Financial Advisers Can’t Overlook the Prudent Investor Rule
August 19, 2026
Robert H. Sitkoff & Max M. Schanzenbach, Financial Advisers Can’t Overlook the Prudent Investor Rule, 29 J. Fin. Plan. 28 (Aug. 2016).
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Trust Law, Corporate Law, and Capital Market Efficiency
August 19, 2026
Robert H. Sitkoff, Trust Law, Corporate Law, and Capital Market Efficiency, 28 J. Corp. L. 565 (2003).
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The American Statutory Business Trust: A Research Agenda
August 19, 2026
Robert H. Sitkoff, The American Statutory Business Trust: A Research Agenda, in Regulation of Wealth Management 17 (Hans Tijo ed., National University of Singapore 2008).
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Wills, Trusts, and Estates
August 19, 2026
Robert H. Sitkoff & Jesse Dukeminier, Wills, Trusts, and Estates (Wolters Kluwer Law & Bus. 9th ed. 2013).
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An Agency Costs Theory of Trust Law
August 19, 2026
Robert H. Sitkoff, An Agency Costs Theory of Trust Law, 89 Cornell L. Rev. 621 (2004).
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The Lurking Rule Against Accumulations of Income
August 19, 2026
Robert H. Sitkoff, The Lurking Rule Against Accumulations of Income, 100 Nw. U. L. Rev. 501 (2006).
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Trust Law as Fiduciary Governance Plus Asset Partitioning
August 19, 2026
Robert H. Sitkoff, Trust Law as Fiduciary Governance Plus Asset Partitioning, in The Worlds of the Trust 428 (Lionel Smith ed., Cambridge Univ. Press 2013).
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The Economic Structure of Fiduciary Law
August 19, 2026
Robert H. Sitkoff, The Economic Structure of Fiduciary Law, 91 B.U. L. Rev. 1039 (2011).
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Trust as “Uncorporation”: a Research Agenda
August 19, 2026
Robert H. Sitkoff, The Trust as “Uncorporation”: A Research Agenda, 2005 U. Ill. L. Rev. 31 (2005).
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Unconstitutional Perpetual Trusts
August 19, 2026
Steven J. Horowitz & Robert H. Sitkoff, Unconstitutional Perpetual Trusts, 67 Vand. L. Rev. 1769 (2014).
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Robert H. Sitkoff & Max Schanzenbach, Perpetuities or Taxes? Explaining the Rise of the Perpetual Trust, 27 Cardozo L. Rev. 2465 (2006).
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Robert H. Sitkoff & Max Schanzenbach, Did Reform of Prudent Trust Investment Laws Change Trust Portfolio Allocation?, 50 J.L. & Econ. 681 (2007).
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Jurisdictional Competition for Trust Funds: An Empirical Analysis of Perpetuities and Taxes
August 19, 2026
Robert H. Sitkoff & Max Schanzenbach, Jurisdictional Competition for Trust Funds: An Empirical Analysis of Perpetuities and Taxes, 115 Yale L.J. 356 (2005).
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Fiduciary Financial Advisors and the Incoherence of a ‘High-Quality Low-Fee’ Safe Harbor
August 19, 2026
Max M. Schanzenbach & Robert H. Sitkoff, Fiduciary Financial Advisors and the Incoherence of a ‘High-Quality Low-Fee’ Safe Harbor (Sept. 16, 2015).
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Agency Costs, Charitable Trusts, and Corporate Control: Evidence from Hershey’s Kiss-Off
August 19, 2026
Robert H. Sitkoff & Jonathan Klick, Agency Costs, Charitable Trusts, and Corporate Control: Evidence from Hershey’s Kiss-Off, 108 Colum. L. Rev. 749 (2008).
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Perpetuities, Taxes, and Asset Protection: An Empirical Assessment of the Jurisdictional Competition for Trust Funds
August 19, 2026
Robert H. Sitkoff & Max Schanzenbach, Perpetuities, Taxes, and Asset Protection: An Empirical Assessment of the Jurisdictional Competition for Trust Funds, in 42 Annual Heckerling…