Professor Horton Wins 2015 AALS Scholarly Paper Competition

Professor David Horton's article "In Partial Defense of Probate: Evidence from Alameda County, California" (forthcoming in the Georgetown Law Journal) has been selected as the winner of the 29th annual Association of American Law Schools (AALS) Scholarly Paper Competition.  The nationwide competition is open to faculty members who have been teaching for five years or less.   A committee of distinguished scholars reviews the submissions with the authors' identities concealed.

Professor Horton presented his paper at the 2015 AALS Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C.  The article focuses on probate: the court-based process for administering a decedent's estate.  Although probate has been condemned for decades as slow and expensive, Professor Horton uses an original dataset of 668 probate administrations to challenge the conventional wisdom.         

Professor Horton joined the King Hall faculty in 2012.  His primary research and teaching interests are wills and trusts, contracts, and arbitration law.