Spring 2027

Estate and Gift Taxation

Introduces basic federal estate and gift tax policy, statutes, and planning concepts relevant to estate and trust planning and administration.

offering recorded1–2 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Howard Taylor

Summary

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.50 GPA, 50.0% A/AB (n=2 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.59 GPA, 58.8% A/AB (n=17 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Demonstrate thorough understanding of the core concepts of the federal transfer tax system.

  • Demonstrate thorough understanding of the core elements of the primary federal transfer tax statutes, how those statutes operate and how they interrelate.

  • Demonstrate a basic understanding of the transfer tax and income tax issues that affect estate and trust planning.

  • Demonstrate understanding of the real world context in which all tax planning activities take place and the ways in which the activities of ordinary people affect legal planning and outcomes.

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Prerequisites

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Declared in Law JD

  • Declared in Law JD
LAW 738

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Professors

Spring 2027

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.50 GPA, 50.0% A/AB (n=2 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.59 GPA, 58.8% A/AB (n=17 letter grades).

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

HOWARD TAYLOR is recorded teaching in Spring 2025, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

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Calendar & sections

Spring 2027

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Student experience

the class

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.50 GPA, 50.0% A/AB (n=2 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.59 GPA, 58.8% A/AB (n=17 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Federal estate and gift tax policy, statutes, and planning concepts.
  • Transfer tax and income tax issues affecting estate and trust planning.
  • Real-world context of tax planning activities and their effect on legal planning and outcomes.

Skills

  • Understanding core concepts of the federal transfer tax system and the operation and interrelation of primary federal transfer tax statutes.
  • Basic understanding of transfer tax and income tax issues affecting estate and trust planning.
  • Understanding the real-world context of tax planning activities and how the activities of ordinary people affect legal planning and outcomes.

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Latest available · Spring 2026— not enough history to project Spring 2027.

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LAW 738 · Spring 2027

Estate and Gift Taxation

Recorded 2026-10-14
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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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