Jeffrey A. Schoenblum
Centennial Professor of Law
Voice: (615) 322-2668
Fax: (615) 322-6631
Email: jeffrey.schoenblum@vanderbilt.edu
Office: Room 243
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Research Interest(s)
International estate taxation, wealth transfer
Education
J.D. Harvard University
B.A. Johns Hopkins University
Biography
Professor Schoenblum has established himself as one of the world's preeminent scholars and experts on international estate taxation and wealth transfers. In addition to publishing several well-received books and articles, Professor Schoenblum has delivered a number of leading lectures, including the Norton Rose Lecture at Oxford, the Paolo Fresco Lecture at the University of Genoa, and the Nottingham Lecture. He joined Vanderbilt's law faculty in 1977 after practicing law at Willkie Farr Gallagher and clerking on the Second Circuit for Judge Edward Lumbard.
Representative Publications
Books
2012 Multistate Guide to Trusts and Trust Administration, CCH
2012 Multistate Guide to Estate Planning, CCH
Multistate and Multinational Estate Planning, CCH (2010 edition - two volumes)
Family, Kinship, Descent and Distribution (forthcoming BNA 2012)
Bilateral Transfer Tax Treaties: Theoretical and Technical Dimensions (2d ed. forthcoming BNA 2012)
Articles
"Governing Law Clauses for Trusts," Heckerling Institute on Estate Planning, ch. 14 (2010)
"In Search of a Unifying Principle for Article V of the Uniform Trust Code: A Response to Professor Danforth," 27 Cardozo Law Review 2609 (2006)
"International Legal Dimensions of Art and Cultural Property," 38 Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law 921 (2006) (preface, symposium issue)
"Taxation, the State, and Community," 23 Social Philosophy and Policy 2 (2006). Republished in Taxation, Economic Prosperity, and Distributive Justice (Cambridge University Press, 2006)
"Myth of Ownership/Myth of Government," 22 Virginia Tax Review 555 (2003)
"Trusts, Settlors, and Spouses--a Cross-Jurisdictional Analysis of Property and Marital Rights," Trusts and Trustees (special supplement) (2003)
"Conflicts of Law Under the New Uniform Trust Code," 3 Trusts E Àttivita Fiduciarie 16 (2001)
"The Role of Legal Doctrine in the Decline of the Islamic Wakf: A Comparison with the Trust," 32 Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law 1191 (1999)
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