Campfield, Regis W.

An editor of the Virginia Law Review, Professor Campfield joined the SMU faculty after teaching at Notre Dame Law School. Prior to that time he practiced with Squire, Sanders & Dempsey in Cleveland. A member of the American Law Institute, a fellow and past regent of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel, a fellow of the American College of Tax Counsel, and a former member of the executive council of the International Academy of Estate and Trust Law, as well as a member of the American Bar Association Section of Taxation, its Estate and Gift Tax Committee, and past chair of its Committee on Tax Practice Management, he is a member of the Technology Committee of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel, and was formerly chair of the Committee on Tax Legislation and Regulations: Joint Property (Section of Real Property, Probate and Trust Law of the American Bar Association) and current editor of Probate Lawyer, the annual publication of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel. He is the author of Estate Planning & Drafting, Estate & Gift Taxation and co-author of Taxation of Income, Fiduciary Tax Guide, and Taxation of Estates, Gifts, & Trusts. He is also permanent chair of the Notre Dame Estate Planning Institute. Professor Campfield has been a visiting professor at the University of Virginia School of Law. He teaches courses in wills, trusts, estate and gift taxation, and estate planning.