Areas of Expertise
- Elder Law
- Estate Planning
- Guardianship Law
- Probate
- Trust Law
- Uniform Acts
About David English
Professor English joined the MU law faculty in 1999, following a career as an estate planning partner with the Chicago law firm of D’Ancona & Pflaum and teaching at the Universities of South Dakota and Santa Clara.
Professor English is best known for his work with the Uniform Law Commission, for which he was the Reporter for the Uniform Trust Code, the Uniform Adult Guardianship and Protective Proceedings Jurisdiction Act, and the Uniform Health-Care Decisions Act, and was the Chair of the drafting committee on the Uniform Guardianship, Conservatorship and Other Protective Arrangements Act. He has also been active in the American Bar Association and Missouri Bar. For the 2018-2019 Bar Year, he serves as Chair of the ABA Section of Real Property Trust and Estate Law, and he is a former Chair of the ABA Commission on Law and Aging, a former member of the ABA House of Delegates, and a former Chair of the Probate and Trust Committee of the Missouri Bar.
Professor English is co-author of the three-volume treatise, Tax, Estate and Financial Planning for the Elderly, successor author of volumes 4A, 4B, and volumes 5 through 5D of Missouri Practice, and co-author of the books Wills, Trusts and Estates, Principles of Wills, Trusts and Estate, and the Fiduciary Accounting and Trust Administration Guide. He teaches Estates and Trusts, Estate Planning, Elder Law, and Fiduciary Administration.
Latest News Featuring David English
- Professor David English Named to the Estate Planning Hall of Fame
- Prof. David English Honored as ABA Advocate of the Month
- Professor English helps explain Britney Spears’ case
- Professor English co-authors opinion piece about Netflix movie ‘I Care a Lot’
- Professor English to speak on COVID-19 in LTC facilities
Latest Publications from David English
- Two More Plumbers Look at the Leak: Purchasing an Annuity in an Institutionalized Spouse’s IRA That is Irrevocable Payable to the Community Spouse May Work for Medicaid but Runs the Risk of Adverse Tax Treatment
- COVID-19 and Its Impact on America’s Retirement System
- So Many Have Died: COVID-19 in America’s Nursing Homes
- Wills, Trusts & Estates
- Probate Code Manual, Missouri Practice, Volumes 4A-B