Education
University of Virginia.
University of Virginia.
He previously served as professor of law at New York University School of Law (2006-2007) and Northwestern University School of Law (2000-2006), where he joined at age 26, the youngest on the faculty. Sitkoff"s scholarly work focuses on trusts and estates, a field of law with relatively few prominent scholars. He is co-author of Wills, Trusts, and Estates, the leading trusts and estates casebook in the United States.
Has published in leading academic journals such as the Yale Law Journal, Columbia Law Review, and the Journal of Law and Economics.
Has appeared as a commentator on Cable News Network. And has had his work on the effects of the abolition of the rule against perpetuities featured in the Wall Street Journal.
Sitkoff was named an "up and coming" lawyer for 2007 by Lawyer"s Weekly. Sitkoff received a Bachelor of Arts from University of Virginia (1996) and a Juris Doctor from University of Chicago Law School with high honors (1999). He was a law clerk for Judge Richard Posner on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit (1999-2000).
Sitkoff was elected to the American Law Institute in 2007 and was elected to a five-year term on the ALI"s Council in May 2012.
He has worked on several ALI projects, including Principles of the Law of Charitable Nonprofit Organizations. Restatement Third, Property (Wills and Other Donative Transfers), Restatement Third, Restitution and Unjust Enrichment, and Restatement Third, Trusts.
His father is a retired trusts and estates lawyer