Bundle: Wills, Trusts, and Estates: The Essentials, Third Edition and PracticePerfect

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Authors

Reid Kress Weisbord
David Horton
Stephen K. Urice
Deborah Gordon
Emily Grant

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Publication Date

2025-11-14

Edition

Third Edition

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Print + Digital Bundle - This bundle includes both print and digital versions of ISBN 9798886142082 as well as PracticePerfect, ISBN 9798892078603.

Digital Bundle - This bundle includes a digital-only version of ISBN 9798892074193 as well as PracticePerfect, ISBN 9798892078603.

Wills, Trusts, and Estates: The Essentials, Third Editionoffers a streamlined yet comprehensive presentation of wealth transfer law for an introductory law school course. Written by widely recognized scholars in the field, this text covers the core legal principles that are essential to a trusts and estates practice, including most concepts that are tested on the bar exam. For a fresh perspective, Essentials incorporates current events, lively cases, and engaging examples. It also enables students to maximize out-of-class preparation time by delivering information in an efficient, straightforward way. Each chapter contains: (1) clearly explained summaries of each doctrine, (2) explanatory narration accompanying all statutory authority, (3) thoroughly edited judicial opinions followed by analytical questions and answers, and (4) realistic problems, designed for classroom instruction, illustrating and applying doctrines and statutes.

Bundle also includes PracticePerfect: Wills, Trusts and Estates, a visually engaging, interactive study aid designed to help students review core course topics and test their ability to recall and correctly apply the law. PracticePerfect contains a library of animated videos that explain course topics through hypothetical situations, quizzes to test knowledge and understanding, and progress trackers so students can identify their strengths and weaknesses in the course. Designed to work with all major casebooks, PracticePerfect is the ideal study companion for today's law students.

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About the authors

Reid Kress Weisbord

Rutgers Law School

Reid Kress Weisbord is Vice Dean, Professor of Law, and Judge Norma L. Shapiro Scholar at Rutgers Law School. He teaches and writes in several areas of law including wills and trusts, and nonprofit organizations. Weisbord is a recipient of the Greg Lastowka Memorial Award for Scholarly Excellence and the International Institute of Education Award for Outstanding Service. Weisbord’s work has appeared in the Vanderbilt Law Review, Iowa Law Review, Fordham Law Review, Boston University Law Review, Boston College Law Review, Florida Law Review, Tulane Law Review, Yale Law Journal Forum, Columbia Law Review Online, Cambridge University Press, and Oxford University Press.

David Horton

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UC Davis School of Law

David Horton is Professor of Law and Chancellor’s Fellow at UC Davis. He teaches and writes in the areas of wills and trusts, arbitration law, and contracts. He has won the Association of American Law Schools’ Scholarly Paper Competition, the Mangano Dispute Resolution Achievement Award, and the Distinguished Teaching Award, and he has been elected as an Academic Fellow of the American College of Trusts and Estates Counsel.

His work has appeared in the Yale Law Journal, Stanford Law Review, N.Y.U. Law Review, California Law Review, Northwestern University Law Review, Georgetown Law Journal, UCLA Law Review, Vanderbilt Law Review, Iowa Law Review, Notre Dame Law Review, Boston College Law Review, William & Mary Law Review, North Carolina Law Review, and University of Colorado Law Review.

Stephen K. Urice

University of Miami

Professor Urice teaches courses in Elements of the Law, Trusts & Estates, Art Law, Museum Law, and Cultural Property Law and seminars primarily in Art, Museum, and Cultural Property law and Private Foundation Law & Policy. He serves as the Arts Track Director for Miami Law's LL.M. in Entertainment, Arts and Sports Law.

Professor Urice lectures nationally and internationally on cultural heritage law and policy and has served for many years on the faculty and planning committee of the American Law Institute's annual course of study Legal Issues in Museum Administration. He is a co-author of the standard art law text, Merryman, Elsen, and Urice, Law, Ethics and the Visual Arts (5th. ed., 2007). In 2023, Cambridge University Press will publish the 6th edition under the authorship of Merryman, Urice, & Frankel. He is also a co-author of Weisbord, Horton, & Urice, Wills, Trusts, & Estates: The Essentials, 2d ed. (Aspen Casebook Series, 2021). He is currently writing articles on the doctrine of cy pres and single-donor museums and U.S. policy regarding illegally exported antiquities.

Deborah Gordon

Associate Dean for Academic Affairs

DREXEL UNIVERSIY THOMAS R. KLINE SCHOOL OF LAW

Deborah Gordon’s scholarship explores the intersection of language, emotion, and gender in inheritance law. Professor Gordon’s publications include “Mor(t)ality & Identity: Wills, Narratives, and Personal Possessions,” in the Yale Journal for Law & the Humanities, “Forfeiting Trust,” in the William & Mary Law Review, “Trusting Trust,” in the University of Kansas Law Review, "Letters Non-Testamentary," also in the University of Kansas Law Review, and “Reflecting on the Language of Death,” in the Seattle University Law Review. Professor Gordon also is a co-author of the casebook Experiencing Trusts & Estates and a contributor to U.S. Feminist Judgments Project. Professor Gordon has served on the Governing Board of the Legal Writing Institute’s Writer’s Workshop, on the Executive Board of the American Association of Law School’s Trusts & Estates section, and on the Scholarship Development Committee of the Legal Writing Institute. Before joining the law school faculty, Professor Gordon practiced at Day Berry & Howard (now Day, Pitney) in Stamford, Connecticut, where she handled sophisticated estate planning, business and succession planning, pre-marital planning, estate administration, and litigation involving fiduciaries and beneficiaries. A graduate (magna cum laude) of New York University School of Law, Professor Gordon served as editor-in-chief of The New York University Law Review. After law school, she clerked for Judge I. Leo Glasser of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York and served as Sullivan & Cromwell’s pro bono fellow. Professor Gordon was chosen by graduating students to receive the Dean Jennifer L. Rosato Excellence in the Classroom Award in 2017.

Emily Grant

Associate Dean for Academic Affairs

WASHBURN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW

Professor Emily Grant joined the faculty at Washburn University School of Law in 2011, where she teaches courses in legal writing and estates and trusts. Prior to coming to Washburn, she taught legal writing courses at her alma mater, the University of Illinois College of Law, where as a student she served as articles editor for the University of Illinois Law Review. Professor Grant then joined the University of Kansas School of Law faculty as a part-time lecturer in the Lawyering Program; she was later named as a full-time lawyering professor while also working with students as part of the Academic Resources Program. Before transitioning to a teaching career, Professor Grant was senior court counsel for the Palau Supreme Court, which serves the small island nation located in the Pacific Ocean. She also clerked for the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, the United States District Court for the Central District of Illinois, and the United States District Court for the District of Kansas. Professor Grant is a co-director of the Institute for Law Teaching and Learning and teaches in the law school's Legal Analysis, Research, and Writing Program.

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