Vol. I
The Duties of a Trustee
MMXXV
In Press
The Duties of a Trustee
A reading of the Uniform Trust Code with annotations from the Restatement (Third) of Trusts.
Faculty of the School of Trust Law & Fiduciary Administration
The Press
Institutional Publishing
The scholarly publishing house of the Society.
The Press publishes permanent scholarly works grounded in primary legal authority — treatises, practice manuals, research monographs, reference works, and the institution's own papers. The Press explains who publishes these works and how; the Publications catalogue holds the works themselves.
§ I
Mission of the Press
On permanence, integrity, and the stewardship of scholarship.
The Press is the institution's publishing house — the place where the work of the Schools, the Library, and the Reading Room is set down as permanent scholarship and entered into the institutional record. A scholarly press preserves what the institution has read carefully — the treatises that organize a field, the manuals that record its working procedure, the monographs that follow a single question across jurisdictions and over time. Editorial integrity is the discipline that distinguishes publication from utterance; permanence is the obligation that follows. Each work is reviewed against primary authority, set under a permanent volume, and reissued in successive editions as the law itself develops.
§ II
Publication Series
Six permanent series of institutional scholarship.
Six publication series organize the work of the Press. Each series has a distinct scholarly purpose; together they form the catalogue of institutional scholarship.
Legal Treatises
Systematic expositions of a field of law by recognized authorities. A treatise organizes the primary record, explains its structure, and preserves the institutional reading of the doctrine for succeeding editions.
Practice Manuals
Working guides to the conduct of a matter — pleadings, motions, hearings, and post-judgment practice. Manuals teach the procedure that surrounds the substantive law and are revised as the rules themselves are revised.
Research Monographs
Long-form scholarship on a single question — a doctrine, a period, a body of authority. Monographs sit beside the treatises as focused contributions to the institutional record.
Reference Works
Tables, dictionaries, citation guides, and finding aids. Reference works do not advance an argument; they serve the reader's working access to the underlying authorities.
Educational Guides
Companions to the curriculum of the Academy — introductions, primers, and study guides that orient the reader to a field before the treatises take it up in full.
Institutional Papers
Reports, white papers, and editorial statements issued in the institution's own voice. Institutional papers record the Society's position on matters of method, standards, and stewardship.
§ III
Books & Treatises
The principal works of the Press.
Books and treatises are the principal works of the Press — systematic expositions of a field of law, issued under a permanent volume and reissued in successive editions. The complete catalogue is held at the Publications surface.
A treatise of the Press is an extended exposition of a field of law — its constitutional basis, its statutory architecture, its leading opinions, and the procedure by which it is heard. Treatises are issued under a permanent volume and reissued in successive editions as the underlying authority is revised. The complete catalogue, with each title's metadata, edition history, and bibliographic note, is held at the Publications surface.
Catalogue
The full register of books and treatises — by title, by series, by author, and by edition — is the operational browsing surface of the Press.
§ IV
Practice Manuals
Working publication programs.
Practice manuals are publication programs, not courses. Each program covers a body of law and the procedure that gives it effect, and is revised as the underlying rules are revised.
Civil Procedure
A publication program covering pleading, joinder, discovery, motion practice, trial, and post-judgment proceedings under the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and the parallel state codes.
Foreclosure Practice
A program devoted to the law of mortgages and the procedure of foreclosure — judicial and non-judicial — including the documentary record, standing, and the post-sale chain of title.
Trust Administration
A program on the administration of express trusts under the Uniform Trust Code and the Restatement (Third) of Trusts — duties of the trustee, accountings, modifications, and termination.
Estate Administration
A program on probate, intestate succession, and the administration of decedents' estates — appointment, inventory, claims, distribution, and the closing of the estate.
Business Organizations
A program covering the formation, governance, and dissolution of corporations, limited liability companies, and partnerships under the model acts and the principal state statutes.
Commercial Law
A program on commercial transactions under the Uniform Commercial Code — sales, leases, negotiable instruments, secured transactions, and the surrounding common-law doctrines.
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Research Monographs
Long-form scholarship on a focused question.
Research monographs are long-form scholarship on a focused question. They sit beside the treatises as the institution's record of sustained inquiry.
Long-form Scholarly Works
Book-length treatments of a single doctrine, statutory scheme, or line of authority. Long-form monographs offer the room a treatise cannot give a focused question.
Focused Research
Monographs that take up a narrowly defined research question and follow it across jurisdictions and over time, producing a record that other scholarship can build upon.
Historical Analysis
Studies of the development of a rule, an office, or an institution through successive periods — reading the early authorities in their own terms before tracing the modern descent.
Primary-Source Studies
Monographs anchored in archival materials, session laws, recorded instruments, and original opinions — read in the documentary form in which they were issued.
Institutional Research Projects
Sustained projects undertaken by the Society on matters of common scholarly interest, published as monographs to consolidate the working record produced.
Doctrinal Surveys
Comprehensive surveys of the present state of a doctrine across the federal courts and the several states — useful both as reference and as the starting point for further research.
§ VI
Editorial Process
The seven stages of institutional publication.
An institutional publishing workflow, applied to every work of the Press. The seven stages are not stages of difficulty; they are stages of editorial proof.
Propose. Research. Compose. Review. Verify. Publish. Preserve.
Process · I → VII
Proposal
A work begins with a written proposal — the subject, the scope, the existing literature, and the contribution the work intends to make to the institutional record.
Research
The author conducts the research against primary authority, gathering the statutes, rules, opinions, and documentary materials on which the work will be grounded.
Manuscript
The manuscript is composed and submitted to the editors with its full apparatus of citations, tables of authorities, and bibliographic notes intact.
Editorial Review
The editors read the manuscript against the institution's standards — clarity, structure, scholarly accuracy, and consistency with the established voice of the Press.
Citation Review
Every citation is verified against the cited authority in its current form. Citation review is the discipline that distinguishes a publication of the Press from a draft.
Publication
The work is issued under a permanent volume number and edition. Each edition is dated, catalogued, and entered into the institutional record of the Press.
Preservation
Published works are preserved in their original form and reissued in successive editions as the underlying law develops. The earlier editions remain part of the record.
§ VII
Publication Standards
The principles that govern every work of the Press.
Six standing principles govern publication at the Society. They are short by design and apply to every series of the Press.
Primary Authority
Every proposition in a publication of the Press is supported by primary authority — constitution, statute, rule, regulation, or judicial opinion. Secondary sources organize the record; they do not replace it.
Citation Discipline
Citations follow the form the jurisdiction itself uses and accompany the proposition wherever it travels. A proposition without its citation is editorial commentary, not institutional scholarship.
Editorial Review
Manuscripts are read by the editors against the institution's standards of clarity, structure, and scholarly accuracy before any work is set for publication.
Historical Accuracy
Authorities are read in the period in which they were issued. A statute is read against its session law; an opinion against the rules then in force; an instrument against the form it took at execution.
Source Verification
Every cited source is verified against its current form — the statute as amended, the rule as last revised, the opinion as not overruled. Verification precedes publication.
Publication Integrity
Once issued, a publication is preserved in the form in which it was published. Corrections are recorded by edition and date; the editorial record is not silently revised.
§ VIII
Publishing With the Press
Submission philosophy and editorial standards.
The Press accepts proposals on the basis of editorial review and the institution's standards. The information below is institutional; the operational submission workflow is not yet open. Authors of the Press are faculty of the Society, scholars working within its standards, and institutional contributors invited by the editors. The Press publishes on the basis of a written proposal, a complete manuscript prepared to the institution's citation discipline, and the same editorial review that governs every work in the catalogue. Future publication opportunities — open calls, series invitations, and standing programs — are recorded here as the editorial calendar develops.
§ IX
Frequently Asked Questions
What readers most often ask of the Press.
The questions most often put to the Press, answered in the language the institution itself uses.
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Publication Activity
The continuing editorial record.
The Press is a continuous editorial enterprise. The modules below are curated windows into the Publications catalogue; the complete browsing experience remains at /publications.
Recently Published Works
Continuous editorial record
The Press is continuously at work. The volumes below are the most recent to enter the institutional catalogue under editorial review; each opens onto its publication record. The complete catalogue is held at the Publications surface.
Vol. II
Reading the Recorded Instrument
MMXXV
Forthcoming
Reading the Recorded Instrument
Deeds, mortgages, satisfactions, and the chain of title.
Faculty of the School of Property Law
Vol. III
The Architecture of Civil Procedure
MMXXVI
Forthcoming
The Architecture of Civil Procedure
Pleadings, motions, and the path of a case.
Faculty of the School of Civil Procedure
Vol. I
Estate Administration in Practice
MMXXV
Forthcoming
Estate Administration in Practice
Procedure, forms, and the record of the probate court.
Faculty of the School of Estate Administration
Vol. II
Consumer Credit Authority
MMXXVI
Forthcoming
Consumer Credit Authority
The Fair Debt Collection Practices Act and the Fair Credit Reporting Act, read as written.
Faculty of the School of Consumer Credit
Monograph No. 1
An Introduction to Legal Research
MMXXV
In Press
An Introduction to Legal Research
The hierarchy of authority and the discipline of citation.
Faculty of the School of Legal Research
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