Books
McGovern’s California Probate Code Annotated.
Bancroft Whitney (2007).
Prior editions: 2000, 1997; 1996; etc.
Wills, Trusts & Estates.
3rd ed.
Casenotes (2004).
Prior editions: 2nd, 1996; 1st, 1990.
Wills, Trusts and Estates Including Taxation and Future Interests
(with Sheldon F. Kurtz).
3rd ed.
West Publishing (2004).
Prior editions: 2nd, 2001; 1st (with Jan Ellen Rein and Sheldon Kurtz), 1988.
Contracts and Sales: Contemporary Cases and Problems
(with Lary Lawrence and Bryan Hull).
2nd ed.
LexisNexis (2002).
Prior edition: Matthew Bender, 1986.
California Revision Commission Background Study: Rules of Construction: Probate Code Sections 21101-21140.
California Law Revision Commission (2000).
Cases and Materials on Wills, Trusts, and Future Interests: An Introduction to Estate Planning.
West Publishing (1983).
Articles and Chapters
The Increasing Malpractice Liability of Will Drafters, 133
Trusts & Estates
10-16
(1994).
Undue Influence and Professional Responsibility, 28
Real Property, Probate & Trust Journal
643-81
(1994).
Nonprobate Transfers under the Revised Uniform Probate Code, 55
Albany Law Review
1329-53
(1992).
Symposium on the Uniform Probate Code: Reflections on Recent Revisions.
Trust, Custodianships, and Durable Powers of Attorney, 27
Real Property, Probate & Trust Journal
1-47
(1992).
Forfeiture, Inequality of Bargaining Power, and the Availability of Credit: An Historical Perspective, 74
Northwestern University Law Review
141-65
(1979).
Dependent Promises in the History of Leases and Other Contracts, 52
Tulane Law Review
659-705
(1978).
Facts and Rules in the Construction of Wills, 26
UCLA Law Review
285-321
(1978).
The Historical Conception of a Lease for Years, 23
UCLA Law Review
501-28
(1976).
The Payable on Death Account and Other Will Substitutes, 67
Northwestern University Law Review
7-41
(1972).
The Enforcement of Informal Contracts in the Later Middle Ages, 59
California Law Review
1145-93
(1971).
Perpetuities Pitfalls and How Best to Avoid Them, 6
Real Property, Probate & Trust Journal
155-77
(1971).
The Enforcement of Oral Covenants Prior to Assumpsit, 65
Northwestern University Law Review
576-614
(1970).
Contract in Medieval England: The Necessity for Quid Pro Quo and a Sum Certain, 13
American Journal of Legal History
173-201
(1969).
Homicide and Succession to Property, 68
Michigan Law Review
65-110
(1969).
Contract in Medieval England: Wager of Law and the Effect of Death, 54
Iowa Law Review
19-62
(1968).
Other
Book Review, 39
American Journal of Legal History
265-67
(1995).
Reviewing
Law, Land, and Family: Aristocratic Inheritance in England, 1300 to 1800, by Eileen Spring.
Book Review, 66
Minnesota Law Review
550-60
(1982).
Reviewing
Rise and Fall of Freedom of Contract, by P.S. Atiyah.
Book Review, 65
Minnesota Law Review
505-09
(1981).
Reviewing
The Court of King’s Bench: 1450-1550, by Marjorie Blatcher.
Book Review, 25
American Journal of Legal History
75-77
(1981).
Reviewing
An Introduction to English Legal History (2nd ed.), by J.H. Baker.