Robert H. Sitkoff Appointed as John L. Gray Professor of Law at Harvard

Congratulations to Robert H. Sitkoff, who was recently appointed as the new John L. Gray Professor of Law at Harvard Law School.  He is the youngest tenured faculty member to receive a chair in the school’s history. 

At an event honoring his appointment, Sitkoff lectured on the “trinity” of trust law.  He discussed the transformation of laws governing revocable trusts, business trusts, and irrevocable trusts over the last generation; how these changes came about; and the future of trusts and estates law.

Sitkoff is a prominent figure in the field of trusts and estates law, co-authoring the leading American casebook on trusts and estates, having been published in multiple leading scholarly journals and popular publications, and being named named an up-and-coming young lawyer by Lawyers Weekly USA in 2007.

See Harvard Law School, Taking the Gray Chair, Sitkoff describes a revolution in trust law, June 10, 2009.