Professor Horton Talks to Center for Public Integrity About Probate Cash Advances

Amy DiPierro of the Center for Public Integrity interviewed Professor David Horton for the Watchdog Newsletter about the sky-high effective APR of probate cash advances.

Horton has written about the practice in a 2016 Yale Law Journal article co-authored with Professor Andrea Cann Chandrasekher and elsewhere.

Martin Luther King Jr. Professor of Law David Horton's primary research and teaching interests are wills and trusts, contracts, and arbitration law.  In 2015, his article "In Partial Defense of Probate: Evidence from Alameda County, California" was selected as the winner of the 29th annual Association of American Law Schools (AALS) Scholarly Paper Competition and he was honored with UC Davis School of Law’s Distinguished Teaching Award.