Wills, Trusts, and Estates in Context

• ISBN: 9781454891185

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  Buy a new version of this textbook and receive access to the Connected eBook with Study Center on CasebookConnect, including: lifetime access to the online ebook with highlight, annotation, and search capabilities; practice questions from your favorite study aids; an outline tool and other helpful resources. Connected eBooks provide what you need most to be successful in your law school classes. Learn more about Connected eBooks.
  
  Wills, Trusts, and Estates in Context offers law school professors and students an accessible, student-friendly coursebook with narrative exposition, replete with significant caches of examples before and after cases. The narrative sections often build slowly in complexity, allowing students to learn the subject from the foundation up. The organization allows equal effectiveness for teaching Wills first or Trusts first, though the text—following tradition—presents Wills first. The book does not rely primarily on cases to teach doctrine. Instead of “hiding the ball,” Shepard offers students the ball and then “plays catch” with students by offering cases that guide an exploration and confirmation of the student’s understanding of doctrine.

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  The accessibility of this book is complemented by a Practicum Problem, a case file that is designed to offer students a practice-based, team-organized, drafting and negotiation opportunity at the end of the semester—putting the student in the role of the lawyer handling a case. Additional practicum problems will also be available for students on the book’s website.

  Professors and students will also benefit from:

  • A curriculum that is divided into three parts: (1) intestacy, other default rules, and mandatory rules that apply to both wills and trusts; (2) wills; and (3) trusts
  • Coverage of topics that is generally proportional to the coverage of topics on the bar exam
  • Example- and hypothetical-heavy narrative exposition
  • 20 highly relevant, illustrative, and teachable cases
  • Materials presented more quickly than traditional textbooks, in a manner that has proven accessible to a wide range of students
  • Optional assessments at the end of the three primary sections of the text

  Teaching materials include:

  • Integrated Teacher’s Manual (the teaching information in the manual is integrated right into the student text at the appropriate point, highlighted, to make the electronic version of the teacher’s manual extremely user friendly).
  • Rich Teacher’s Manual support for the practicum problem—allowing it to be used in different ways and to different degrees. It will be revised or replaced annually.
  • Online Case Bank (a repository of full cases to supplement the more succinct coverage within the printed text).