John L. Gray Professor of Law
| Office: | Hauser 200 |
| Assistant: | Molly Eskridge 617/495-4635 |
| Phone: | (617) 384-8386 |
| Fax: | (617) 812-6195 |
| Email: | rsitkoff@law.harvard.edu |
| Web Page: | Robert H. Sitkoff's biography |
Books |
| Sitkoff, Robert H. & Jesse Dukeminier. Wills, Trusts, and Estates (Aspen Publishers 9th ed. forthcoming 2013). |
| Dukeminier, Jesse, Robert H. Sitkoff & James Lindgren. Wills, Trusts, and Estates (Aspen Publishers 8th ed. 2009). Full text: AMAZON (Purchase) |
| Sitkoff, Robert H. & Max Schanzenbach. Lawyers, Banks, and Money: The Revolution in Modern American Trust Law (Yale University Press forthcoming). |
| Dukeminier, Jesse, Stanley M. Johansen, James Lindgren & Robert H. Sitkoff. Wills, Trusts, and Estates (Aspen Publishers 7th ed. 2005). |
Shorter Works in Collection |
| Sitkoff, Robert H. "Trust Law as Fiduciary Governance Plus Asset Partitioning" in The Worlds of the Trust (L. Smith ed., Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2013). Full text: SSRN |
| Sitkoff, Robert H. & Max Schanzenbach. "Perpetuities, Taxes, and Asset Protection: An Empirical Assessment of the Jurisdictional Competition for Trust Funds" in Annual Heckerling Institute on Estate Planning, Vol. 42 14-1 (Tina Portando ed., Lexis-Nexis, 2008). Full text: WWW |
| Sitkoff, Robert H. "The American Statutory Business Trust: A Research Agenda" in Regulation of Wealth Management 17 (Hans Tijo ed., National University of Singapore, 2008). |
Articles in a Periodical |
| Goldberg, John C.P. & Robert H. Sitkoff. "Torts and Estates: Remedying Wrongful Interference with Inheritance," 65 Stanford Law Review 335 (2013). Full text: WWW |
| Sitkoff, Robert H. "The Economic Structure of Fiduciary Law," 91 Boston University Law Review 1039 (2011). Full text: WWW |
| Sitkoff, Robert H. & Max Schanzenbach. "The Prudent Investor Rule and Trust Asset Allocation: An Empirical Analysis," 35 ACTEC Journal 314 (2010). Full text: WWW |
| Sitkoff, Robert H. & Jonathan Klick. "Agency Costs, Charitable Trusts, and Corporate Control: Evidence from Hershey's Kiss-Off," 108 Columbia Law Review 749 (2008). Full text: WWW |
| Sitkoff, Robert H. & Max Schanzenbach. "Did Reform of Prudent Trust Investment Laws Change Trust Portfolio Allocation?" 50 Journal of Law and Economics 681 (2007). Full text: SSRN |
| Sitkoff, Robert H. & Max Schanzenbach. "Perpetuities or Taxes? Explaining the Rise of the Perpetual Trust," 27 Cardozo Law Review 2465 (2006). Full text: SSRN |
| Sitkoff, Robert H. "The Lurking Rule Against Accumulations of Income," 100 Northwestern University Law Review 501 (2006). Full text: SSRN |
| Sitkoff, Robert H. "The Trust as "Uncorporation": A Research Agenda," University of Illinois Law Review, 2005, at 31. Full text: SSRN |
| Sitkoff, Robert H. & Max Schanzenbach. "Jurisdictional Competition for Trust Funds: An Empirical Analysis of Perpetuities and Taxes," 115 Yale Law Journal 356 (2005). Full text: SSRN |
| Sitkoff, Robert H. "Politics and the Business Corporation," 26 Regulation 30 (2004). Full text: SSRN |
| Sitkoff, Robert H. "An Agency Costs Theory of Trust Law," 89 Cornell Law Review 621 (2004). Full text: SSRN |
| Sitkoff, Robert H. "Trust Law, Corporate Law, and Capital Market Efficiency," 28 Journal of Corporation Law 565 (2003). Full text: SSRN |
| Sitkoff, Robert H. "Corporate Political Speech, Political Extortion, and the Competition for Corporate Charters," 69 University of Chicago Law Review 1103 (2002). Full text: SSRN |
| Pritzker, Robert, Jack Jacobs, Richard Painter, Robert H. Sitkoff & William Carney. "Corporate Governance Roundtable: Theory Informs Business Practice Symposium," 77 Chicago-Kent Law Review 235 (2001). Full text: WWW |
| Sitkoff, Robert H. "Comment: "Mend the Hold" and Erie: Why an Obscure Contracts Doctrine Should Control in Federal Diversity Cases," 65 University of Chicago Law Review 1059 (1998). Full text: WWW |
Works in Progress |
| Sitkoff, Robert H. The Rise of the Statutory Business Trust (2013). |
| Sitkoff, Robert H. & Max Schanzenbach. The Prudent Investor Rule Twenty Years On and After the Financial Crisis (2013). |
| Sitkoff, Robert H. Perfecting the Business Trust: The Uniform Statutory Trust Entity Act (2013). |
| Sitkoff, Robert H. & Max Schanzenbach. Law and the Equal Division Puzzle: Trusts and Transaction Costs (2013). |
| Sitkoff, Robert H. & John Morley. The Law and Economics of Divided Trusteeship (2013). |