Jesse Dukeminier (August 12, 1925 – April 20, 2003) was a

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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 prop ...

, wills,

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, and estates. Dukeminier's ''Trusts and Estates'' textbook has been described as "widely used and nationally recognized". Updates are still being produced to the text, with the Dukeminier name, alongside coauthors, remaining on the work. Dukeminier was born in West Point, Mississippi in 1925 and received a

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from

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in 1948, and his

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from

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in 1951 before briefly entering the practice of law with a

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. He then taught law at the University of Kentucky College of Law and the

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, and visited at Harvard 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