Mark L. Ascher, Sylvan Lang Professor in the Law of Trusts, joined the faculty of the University of Texas School of Law in January 2000. Previously, he was the Ralph W. Bilby Professor at the University of Arizona College of Law in Tucson, Arizona.
Widely considered the leading scholar in the law of trusts and estates of his generation of law professors, he is now the primary author of the leading practitioner treatise,"Federal Income Taxation of Estates, Trusts and Beneficiaries" and has taken over the leading treatise"Scott on Trusts" (now to become "Scott & Ascher onTrusts").
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.
Professor Ascher received a B.A. in 1975 from Marquette, an M.A. in 1977 from Kansas State, a J.D. in 1978 from Harvard, and an LL.M. in 1981 from New York University.
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