3L Morgan Wahler Wins Mary Moers Wenig Student Writing Competition

Morgan Wahler Wins Mary Moers Wenig Student Writing Competition

SAN DIEGO (September 30, 2022) – University of San Diego (USD) School of Law 3L Morgan Wahler recently won first prize in the Mary Moers Wenig student writing competition presented by The American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC) Foundation.

Wahler’s essay is titled, “The Problem of Charitable Trust Enforcement: Addressing the Insufficiencies of the Attorney General System and Proposing New Law Reform.” For winning the writing competition, Wahler received a monetary prize plus free tuition to the Heckerling Graduate Program in Estate Planning (LLM) at the University of Miami School of Law if she wishes to pursue it. Her paper will also be published in the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel Law Journal.

The ACTEC Foundation offers education to families and professionals and supports students interested in the trust and estate area of the law. The Mary Moers Wenig Student Writing Competition was created to honor the late Mary Moers Wenig, a member of ACTEC’s Legal Education Committee, who was a law school professor for over 30 years. Writing competition entries are judged by members of ACTEC’s Legal Education Committee, all of whom are either law school professors who teach in the area of trusts and estates or practitioners who teach as adjuncts in the trusts and estates field.

Read more about the Mary Moers Wenig student writing competition here.

About the University of San Diego School of Law

Each year, USD educates approximately 800 Juris Doctor and graduate law students from throughout the United States and around the world.  The law school is best known for its offerings in the areas of business and corporate law, constitutional law, intellectual property, international and comparative law, public interest law and taxation.

USD School of Law is one of the 84 law schools elected to the Order of the Coif, a national honor society for law school graduates.  The law school’s faculty is a strong group of outstanding scholars and teachers with national and international reputations and currently ranks 30th nationally among U.S. law faculties in scholarly impact and 28th nationally in past-year faculty downloads on the Social Sciences Research Network (SSRN). The school is accredited by the American Bar Association and is a member of the Association of American Law Schools. Founded in 1954, the law school is part of the University of San Diego, a private, independent, Roman Catholic university chartered in 1949.