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FULL-TIME FACULTY
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Charles E. Rounds, Jr |
Professor of Law
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| S H O R T B I O G R A P H Y |
Lawyer, The First National Bank of Boston, 1977-83; Adjunct Instructor, 1978-83; Associate Professor of Law, 1983-86; Professor of Law, since 1986. Tenure Granted: 1990
Degrees:
BA, Columbia University; JD, Suffolk University; Certificate in German, Defense Language Institute (Monterey)
Bar Admittance:
MA
Subjects:
Drafting Wills and Trusts; Agency; Trusts; Legal Structures of Mutual Funds in Civil Law and Common Law Jurisdictions
Professional Activities:
Author, ;;www.popecenter.org/about/author.html?id=420;,;The John William Pope Center,,a,,; Fellow,
;;www.actec.org;,;American College of Trust and Estate Counsel,,a,, (ACTEC); Resident Scholar, ;;www.beaconhill.org;,;The Beacon Hill Institute,,a,,; Member of Advisory Committee, ;;www.socialsecurity.org/;,;The Cato Project on Social Security Choice,,a,,; Supporter, U.C. Berkeley Tel Dor Archaeological Expedition (Israel); Counsel to ;;www.realagency.org/;,;Real Estate Agents for Real Agency, Inc.,,a,,; Former Counsel to The Franklin Foundation, by statute sole managing agent of a 200 year accumulation trust established under the will of Benjamin Franklin and now terminated. See Franklin Foundation v. Attorney General, 623 N.E. 2d 1109 (1993); Fiduciary litigation expert witness [numerous matters including Phillips v. Washington Legal Found. 118 S. Ct. 1925 (1998)]; Fiduciary consultant to trustees and agents, including attorneys-at-law. See Rounds Letter to the Editor, Wall Street Journal, June 13, 2008, pg. A14; ;;www.law.suffolk.edu/academic/sweden;,;University of Lund Summer Program,,a,,, Onsite Coordinator for 2002, 2003, 2004 and 2005; Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly (Emeritus Board Member).
| S E L E C T E D P U B L I C A T I
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LORING: A TRUSTEE'S HANDBOOK
(
2013
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LORING: A TRUSTEE'S HANDBOOK
(
2012
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LORING AND ROUNDS: A TRUSTEE'S HANDBOOK
(
Aspen,
2010
& Supp.
2011-
)
A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO ESTATE PLANNING IN MASSACHUSETTS
(
Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education,
Charles E. Rounds, Jr. and Jon E. Steffensen eds.,
2009
)
(with Jon E. Steffensen, co-editor)
LORING: A TRUSTEE'S HANDBOOK
(
Aspen,
2009
)
LORING: A TRUSTEE'S HANDBOOK
(
Aspen,
2008
)
LORING: A TRUSTEE'S HANDBOOK
(
Aspen,
2007
)
I AND II A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO ESTATE PLANNING
(
2d ed.
Jon E. Steffensen and Charles E. Rounds, Jr. eds.,
2007
)
(Ethics Editor)
LORING: A TRUSTEE'S HANDBOOK
(
Aspen,
2006
)
Social Investing Threatens Public Pension Funds, Charitable Trusts and the Social Security Trust Fund,
in
PENSION FUND POLITICS: THE DANGERS OF SOCIALLY RESPONSIBLE INVESTING
(
American Enterprise Institute,
John H. Entine ed.,
2005
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LORING: A TRUSTEE'S HANDBOOK
(
Aspen,
2005
)
LORING: A TRUSTEE’S HANDBOOK
(
Aspen,
2004
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Property Rights: The Hidden Issue of Social Security Reform,
in
SOCIAL SECURITY AND ITS DISCONTENTS
(
Cato Institute,
Michael D. Tanner ed.,
2004
)
FIDUCIARY LIABILITY OF TRUSTEES AND PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVES, BNA TAX MANAGEMENT PORTFOLIO 853
(
2003
)
LORING: A TRUSTEE’S HANDBOOK
(
Aspen,
2003
)
LORING: A TRUSTEE’S HANDBOOK
(
Panel Pub.,
2002
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LORING: A TRUSTEE’S HANDBOOK
(
Panel Pub.,
2001
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I AND II A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO ESTATE PLANNING
(
Jon E. Steffensen and Charles E. Rounds, Jr. eds.,
2000
)
(Ethics Editor).
LORING: A TRUSTEE’S HANDBOOK
(
Panel Pub.,
2000
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LORING: A TRUSTEE’S HANDBOOK
(
Panel Pub.,
1999
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LORING: A TRUSTEE’S HANDBOOK
(
Panel Pub.,
Centennial ed.
1998
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LORING: A TRUSTEE’S HANDBOOK
(
Little, Brown and Co.,
1997
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LORING: A TRUSTEE’S HANDBOOK
(
Little, Brown and Co.,
1996
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LORING: A TRUSTEE’S HANDBOOK
(
Little, Brown and Co.,
1994
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Proponents of Extracting Slavery Reparations from Private Interests Must Contend with Equity's Maxims,
42 U. TOL. L. REV. 673
(
2011
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Bricks without Straw: The Sorry State of American Legal Education,
24
:2 ACADEMIC QUESTIONS
(
2011
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You Can't Take It With You (reviewing Ray D. Madoff, IMMORTALITY AND THE LAW: THE RISING POWER OF THE AMERICAN DEAD,
24
:1 PHILANTHROPY MAGAZINE 48
(
2010
)
Relief for IP Rights Infringement Is Primarily Equitable: How American Legal Education is Short-Changing the 21st Century Corporate Litigator,
26 SANTA CLARA COMPUTER & HIGH TECH L.J. 313
(
2010
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State Common Law Aspects of the Global Unwinding of the Madoff Ponzi Scheme and the Sub-Prime Mortgage Securitization Debacle: Buttressing the Thesis That Globalizing the American Law School Curriculum at the Expense of Instruction in Core Common Law Doctrine Will Only Further Provincialize It,
27 WIS. INT'L. L.J. 99
(
2009
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The Common Law is Not Just About Contracts: How Legal Education Has Been Short-Changing Feminism,
43 U. RICH. L. REV. 1185
(
2009
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Lawyer Codes Are Just About Licensure, the Lawyer's Relationship With the State: Recalling the Common Law Agency, Contract, Tort, Trust and Property Principles that Regulate the Lawyer-Client Relationship,
60 BAYLOR L. REV. 771
(
2009
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Sebastian V. Grassi, Jr's., A Practical Guide to Drafting Irrevocable Life Insurance Trusts (2d ed.),
27 MICH. PROB. & EST. PLAN. J. 27
(
2007
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(book review)
Publicly-Traded Open End Mutual Funds in Common Law and Civil Law Jurisdictions: A Comparison of Legal Structures,
3 NYU J. L. & BUS. 473
(
2007
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(with Andreas Dehio, Heidelberg, Germany) (with graphics)
The Case for a Return to Mandatory Instruction in the Fiduciary Aspects of Agency and Trusts in the American Law School, Together with a Model Fiduciary Relations Course Syllabus,
18 REGENT U. L. REV. 251
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2006
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See 20:6 PROB. & PROP., Nov./Dec. 2006 at pg. 64. See also Charles E. Rounds, Jr., ;;www.popecenter.org/commentaries/article.html?id=2281;,;Bad Sociology, Not Law,,a,, (Jan. 4, 2010) (The John William Pope Center for Higher Education Policy). Charles E. Rounds, Jr., ;;www.popecenter.org/commentaries/article.html?id=2329;,;Trivializing Law School,,a,, (April 1, 2010) (The John William Pope Center for Higher Education Policy)
Why Democrats Should Embrace Personal Accounts,
33 Mass. Law. Wkly. 2275
(
2005
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Reframing The Social Security Reform Debate As Ownership Versus Welfare,
(
2005
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See also Rounds, Letter to the Editor, Wall Street Journal, Monday, May 2, 2005, p. A19
The Fiction of Social Security Bonds,
Ludwig von Mises Institute
(
2005
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No More Euphemisms (Addressing the misapplication of legal terminology by those participating in the social security privatization debate),
Ludwig von Mises Institute
(
2002
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A Legal and Operational Framework for the Privatization of Social Security,
Beacon Hill Institute Policy Study
(
2002
)
(with Karl J. Borden)
A Proposed Legal Regulatory, and Operational Structure for an Investment-Based Social Security System,
Cato Institute SSP No. 25
(
2002
)
(with Karl J. Borden)
Property Rights: The Hidden Issue of Social Security Reform,
Cato Project on Social Security Privatization No. 19
(
2000
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IOLTA: Interest Without Principle, No. 291 Policy Analysis,
Cato Institute
(
1997
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See also, Susan Perrilloux Billeaud, Comments, The Emperor Has No Clothes! IOLTA's Checkered Past Exposed; 30 CUMB. L. REV. 67 (2000) at 70-71; Marcia Coyle, Court revisits client account issue, National Law Journal, Dec. 2, 2002, pg. 1, col.2; Ruling puts IOLTA plans in jeopardy, National Law Journal, Oct. 29, 2001, pg. 1, col. 5
Social Investing, IOLTA and the Law of Trusts: The Settlor's Case Against the Political Use of Charitable and Client Funds,
22 LOY. U. CHI. L.J. 163
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1990
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(reprinted 5 CONN. PROB. L.J.l 25 (1989))
The Vulnerability of Trust Assets to Attack by the Deceased Settlor's Creditors, by the Commonwealth Should It Seek Reimbursement for Medical Payments, and by the Spouse,
73 MASS. L. REV. 67
(
1988
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(Cited in Bongaards v Millen, 55 Mass. App. Ct. 51, fn. 20 (2002))
Protections Afforded to Massachusetts' Ancient Burial Grounds,
73 MASS. L. REV. 176
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Cited in Sanford v Vinal, 552 N.E.2d 579, fn. 19, (Mass. App. Ct., 1990)
This Is Not Life, Liberty or Happiness-It's Tyranny,
WALL STREET JOURNAL, A14
(
2012
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(April 26, 2012)
'First Do No Hurt' Should Apply to Our Regulators, Too,
WALL STREET JOURNAL, A20
(
2011
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(Dec. 14, 2011)
Please, No Lemmings,
WALL STREET JOURNAL, A14
(
2008
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(June 13, 2008)
Social Security: An Overpriced Lottery Ticket,
WALL STREET JOURNAL, A19
(
2005
)
(May 2, 2005)
Prof. Charles E. Rounds, Jr 
Suffolk
University Law School
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