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Amy Morris Hess

UTK Distinguished Service Professor
Waller, Lansden, Dortch & Davis and Williford Gragg Distinguished Professor of Law

B.A., 1968, Barnard College
J.D., 1971, University of Virginia
Amy Hess


Selected Publications

Books

Bogert and Hess: The Law of Trusts and Trustees (3d ed.)

  • annual supplements for this 18-volume treatise (successor author since 1994)
  • four replacement volumes:
    • statutory standards of trust investment, treatise sections 611-670 (3d ed. 2000)
    •  taxation of trusts, treatise sections 265-276 (3d ed. 2005)
    • history of trusts and development of trust law, treatise sections 1-46 (3d ed. 2007)
    • duties of trustees regarding investments, contracts, and torts, and remedies for their breach (3d ed. 2009).

An Introduction to Trusts and Estates (2003)(co-author)(casebook; second edition forthcoming 2011).

Articles:

“Estate Planning for the Baby Boomers: Will They Have Estates to Plan?”  ABA Tax Section Quarterly (Winter 2009) 

Freeing Property Owners from the RAP Trap: Tennessee Adopts the Uniform Statutory Rule Against Perpetuities,” 62 Tenn. L. Rev. 267 (1995).