Kurtz on Iowa Estates—About the Author

Sheldon F. Kurtz is the Percy Bordwell Distinguished Professor of Law at the College of Law, University of Iowa. He was Dean of the Florida State College of Law. He received his legal education at the Syracuse Law School where he was managing editor of the Syracuse Law Review. He practiced law in New York City for five years before coming to the Iowa Law School in 1973. In addition to the predecessor works previously described, he is the author of American Property Law (with Hovenkamp), Wills, Trusts and Future Interests (with McGovern & Rein), The Law of Property (with Boyer and Hovenkamp), and Closely Held Corporations in Business and Estate Planning (with Hood and Shors) and numerous articles relating to wills and trusts.