Article on Disregarding Donors and Tinkering with Texas Trusts: Judicial Modification of Restricted Charitable Gifts

Matthew Roland recently published an Article entitled, Disregarding Donors and Tinkering with Texas Trusts: Judicial Modification of Restricted Charitable Gifts, 10 Tex. Tech Est. Plan. & Cmty. Prop. L. J. 375-394 (Summer 2018). Provided below is an introduction to the Article.

Founded in 1881, the University of Texas at Austin has since outgrown its famed “Forty Acres” and flourished into one of the nation’s largest universities. As far back as the turn of the nineteenth century, University officials foresaw enrollment inevitably exceeding the limits of the school’s original campus. Colonel George W. Brackenridge served on the University of Texas System’s Board of Regents at the time and devoted considerable energy and wealth towards fostering a first-class state university.