Professor Horton presents probate-lending paper at Department of Business Oversight

  • by Carla Meyer

Professor David Horton presented the paper “Borrowing in the Shadow of Death: Another Look at Probate Lending,” on April 17 at the California Department of Business Oversight. Horton was invited to speak after an agency lawyer read Horton’s article.

Professor Horton joined the King Hall faculty in 2012. His primary research and teaching interests are wills and trusts, contracts, and arbitration law. In 2015, his article "In Partial Defense of Probate: Evidence from Alameda County, California" was selected as the winner of the 29th annual Association of American Law Schools (AALS) Scholarly Paper Competition and he was honored with UC Davis School of Law’s Distinguished Teaching Award.