{"id":1120,"date":"2023-07-31T15:34:08","date_gmt":"2023-07-31T19:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/actec.matrixdev.net\/?page_id=1120"},"modified":"2024-01-18T15:23:18","modified_gmt":"2024-01-18T20:23:18","slug":"nomination-to-actec-for-trust-and-estate-professors","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/actec.matrixdev.net\/become-a-fellow\/nomination-to-actec-for-trust-and-estate-professors\/","title":{"rendered":"Nomination for Law Professors"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The American College of Trust and Estate Counsel recognizes leading Academics of the Trust and Estate profession who have made a substantial contribution to the academic T&E field. To become an Academic Fellow of the College, one must be nominated by an active Fellow in good standing and elected by the Board of Regents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Academic Fellows participate in stimulating committee discussions, which are a highlight of every national meeting, and the committee work-product is the pride of the College.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Legal Education Committee<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

The Legal Education Committee focuses on the quality and relevance of trust and estate courses offered in law schools, strategies for incorporating skills training into courses, ideas for mentoring new lawyers in estate planning, the role of adjunct professors, and trust- and estate-related scholarship, case law, statutory law, and current developments. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Academic Fellow Requirements<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In order to become an Academic Fellow of ACTEC, one must:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. Have a full-time academic appointment at a duly accredited law school and must, under ordinary circumstances, at the time of nomination and election be a tenured member of the faculty. A \u201cduly accredited law school\u201d is one that, at the time of the nomination of the Fellow, is accredited or provisionally accredited by the American Bar Association. For a Nominee to qualify as specializing in T & E law, the Nominee must devote at least half of the Nominee\u2019s working time on an annual basis to teaching, writing, or lecturing in the area of T & E law.;<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Have not less than ten years’ experience as a teacher specializing in T & E law or as a lawyer in active private T & E practice or, a combination thereof. In all cases, a Nominee must spend the three years immediately and continuously preceding the nomination and election specializing in T & E Law.;<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Have a well-deserved outstanding reputation, either among academics in the T&E field on a national level, or among the T&E bar in the state(s) where one teaches, or both;<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. Have demonstrated exceptional knowledge of T&E law;<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  5. Have made substantial contributions to the T&E field by lecturing, writing, teaching, or being involved in bar activities or in the enactment of significant state, federal or uniform T&E legislation, or outreach, education, and mentoring to communities that have been historically underrepresented in estate planning (\u201cdiverse communities\u201d) on topics and issues connected to estate planning, probate, and trust.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Law Schools with Current Academic Fellows<\/h2>\n\n\n\n