Reid Kress Weisbord

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Reid Kress Weisbord is a Distinguished Professor of Law and the Judge Norma L. Shapiro Scholar at Rutgers Law School. Professor Weisbord's teaching and scholarship focus primarily on private law topics related to wealth transfer, estate planning, tax, and property.

Weisbord's scholarly work includes more than sixty publications. His articles, essays, and books have been cited by state supreme courts, American Law Institute Restatements, and other leading legal authorities. Weisbord's research has appeared or is forthcoming in the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Duke Law Journal, Vanderbilt Law Review, North Carolina Law Review, Iowa Law Review, Boston University Law Review, Notre Dame Law Review, Fordham Law Review, Boston College Law Review, Yale Law Journal Forum, Stanford Law Review Online, Columbia Law Review Online, Cambridge University Press, and Oxford University Press, among others.

Weisbord is co-author of a leading textbook, WILLS, TRUSTS, AND ESTATES: THE ESSENTIALS (Aspen Publishers) (with David Horton and Stephen Urice), and ESTATE PLANNING BY CASNER, PENNELL, AND WEISBORD, the encyclopedic treatise first published in 1953 by the late James Casner, now co-authored with Jeffrey Pennell.

Weisbord's media commentary has been featured in the New York Times, CBS News, The Atlantic, Forbes, the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Star-Ledger, Law, and Consumer Reports, among others. His expert commentary published by The Conversation, including an estate law series co-authored with Professor Naomi Cahn (University of Virginia), has been syndicated in newspapers nationally and generated more than 300,000 downloads.

Professor Weisbord joined the Rutgers faculty in 2010 and served as Vice Dean from 2013 to 2019. His research and service have been recognized by awards including the Greg Lastowka Memorial Award for Scholarly Excellence, the Rutgers Law School Distinguished Service Award, and the International Institute of Education Award for Outstanding Service.

Weisbord is an elected Academic Fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC). He serves as co-editor of the Trusts & Estates section of JOTWELL, chair of the Trusts & Estates Section of the American Association of Law Schools (2025-26), and associate editor of the peer-reviewed ACTEC Law Journal (2024-2026). Weisbord also teaches as a Visiting Professor of Law at Columbia Law School and the University of Miami Law School.

Professor Weisbord received a Bachelor of Science from the Wharton School and a Juris Doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. He clerked for Judge Jane R. Roth on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and the late Judge Norma L. Shapiro on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Prior to joining the legal academy, Weisbord practiced in the litigation department of an international law firm.

Experience

• –present Professor of Law and Judge Norma Shapiro Scholar, Rutgers University

Education

• 2006 University of Pennsylvania, Juris Doctor / Law

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