Jesse Dukeminier (August 12, 1925 – April 20, 2003) was an American legal scholar. He was a professor of law for 40 years at the

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, and authored or co-authored a significant number of articles and

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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,

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, and estates. Dukeminier's ''Trusts and Estates'' textbook has been described as "widely used and nationally recognized". Dukeminier was born in

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in 1925 and received a

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from

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in 1948, and his

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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

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. He then taught law at the

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and the

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, and visited at

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and the

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before taking a position at UCLA in 1963.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Dukeminier, Jesse 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