Alan Newman

Title: Professor of Law
Office: Room 239
Phone: 330-972-5859
Fax: 330-258-2343
Email: newman2@uakron.edu
Publications: http://works.bepress.com/alan_newman/
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Professor of Law Alan Newman joined the faculty in 1996. He teaches courses in wills, trusts and estates and accounting and finance from a lawyer's perspective. Professor Newman received his bachelor of accountancy, as well as his J.D. degree, from the University of Oklahoma. He was the valedictorian of his law school class, a member of the Order of the Coif and the articles editor of the Oklahoma Law Review. Professor Newman is a member of the Oklahoma Bar Association, the Ohio State Bar Association and the American Bar Association. He also is an academic fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel and a certified public accountant. Professor Newman is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the Probate Law Journal of Ohio and recently served as the reporter for the Joint Committee on the Ohio Trust Code of the Legal, Legislative, and Regulatory Committee of the Ohio Bankers League and the Estate Planning, Trust, and Probate Law Section of the Ohio State Bar Association. His recent publications include Revocable Trusts and the Law of Wills: An Imperfect Fit, 43 Real Property, Trust and Estate Law Journal 523 (2008); Update on the Ohio Trust Code: Recent Developments, 20 Probate Law Journal of Ohio 1 (Sept./Oct. 2009); and The Uniform Trust Code: An Analysis of Ohio's Version, 34 Ohio Northern University Law Review 135 (2008). He is currently working on the third edition of the volume of the Bogert, Trusts and Trustees treatise on the information and accounting duties of trustees. Professor Newman was voted Outstanding Professor of the Year in 2007, 2001, 2000 and 1998.

Outstanding Professor of the Year 2007