Professor Schenkel teaches Estate Planning; Personal Income Tax; and Wills, Estates, and Trusts. Before joining the New England faculty in 2006, he was a sole practitioner in North Carolina, providing legal and tax planning services with a specialty in complex estate planning and administration. Before that, he practiced in Florida. He also served as an assistant professor of business law at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, teaching Legal Environment of Business; Commercial Law; Federal Taxation of Gifts, Estates, and Trusts; and Law and Society. He has published articles on business law and estates and trusts law.

Selected Publications

• Testamentary Fragmentation and the Diminishing Role of the Will: An Argument for Revival, 41 Creighton L. Rev. 155 (2008)
  
• Will a Crummey Beneficial Interest Qualify for an Annual Gift Tax Exclusion?, (Tax Adviser, AICPA Magazine of Planning, Trends & Techniques, June 1997)
  
• Putting Valuation in Context: Pitfalls and Opportunities in the Current Environment, (Trusts & Estates: The Journal of Estate Planning, August 1996)
  
• Up the Stream without an Exemption? IRS Chief Counsel Reconsiders Hospital Physician "Revenue Stream" Joint Ventures, (Florida Bar Journal, April, 1992)
  

Last Updated: 07/07/2008