Professor Horton quoted by Consumer Reports in Story on Probate Lending Practices

In an April 15 story on the growing business of probate lending, Consumer Reports extensively quotes Professor David Horton on the industry’s high interest rates. The story also mentions the research on the subject that Horton and Professor Andrea Chandrasekher have conducted. Read the story.

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.