
Jesse Dukeminier (August 12, 1925 – April 20, 2003) was an American legal scholar. He was a professor of law for 40 years at the
University of California, Los Angeles
The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California, United States. Its academic roots were established in 1881 as a normal school the ...
, and authored or co-authored a significant number of articles and
textbook
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s in the areas of
property law
Property law is the area of law that governs the various forms of ownership in real property (land) and personal property. Property refers to legally protected claims to resources, such as land and personal property, including intellectual prope ...
,
wills,
trusts
A trust is a legal relationship in which the owner of property, or any transferable right, gives it to another to manage and use solely for the benefit of a designated person. In the English common law, the party who entrusts the property is k ...
, and
estates. Dukeminier's ''Trusts and Estates'' textbook has been described as "widely used and nationally recognized".
Dukeminier was born in
West Point, Mississippi
West Point is a city in Clay County, Mississippi, Clay County, Mississippi, United States, in the Golden Triangle (Mississippi), Golden Triangle region of the state. The population was 10,105 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. It is t ...
in 1925 and received a
bachelor's degree
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from
Harvard University
Harvard University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1636 and named for its first benefactor, the History of the Puritans in North America, Puritan clergyma ...
in 1948, and his
Juris Doctor
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from
Yale
Yale University is a private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701, Yale is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, and one of the nine colonial colleges ch ...
in 1951 before briefly entering the practice of law with a
Wall Street
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law firm
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. He then taught law at the
University of Kentucky College of Law
The University of Kentucky J. David Rosenberg College of Law, also known as UK Rosenberg College of Law, is the law school of the University of Kentucky located in Lexington, Kentucky. Founded initially from a law program at Transylvania Univers ...
and the
University of Minnesota Law School
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, and visited at
Harvard
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and the
University of Chicago
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before taking a position at UCLA in 1963.
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UCLA law professor remembered for geniality
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American legal scholars
American legal writers
New York (state) lawyers
1925 births
2003 deaths
Harvard University faculty
University of Chicago faculty
Harvard University alumni
Yale Law School alumni
UCLA School of Law faculty
Scholars of property law
People from West Point, Mississippi
20th-century American lawyers