Established in 2008 at the Texas Tech University School of Law, the Estate Planning and Community Property Law Journal (“EPJ”) is the only legal journal of its kind committed to community property law, and the second in the nation devoted to estate planning. Governor Preston E. Smith Regents Professor of Law Gerry W. Beyer serves as the faculty advisor for the EPJ. This student-led publication publishes scholarly articles written by national and international experts in the fields of estate planning, community property, and related legal topics. The Journal also contains outstanding student comments. In its first year of publication, the Journal won the Texas Bar Foundation’s Outstanding Law Review Article Award in 2010, 2016, 2020, and 2025.
Each year, EPJ publishes two books containing professional articles by leading legal scholars in the areas of estate planning, community property, wealth management, taxation, and other related topics. Additionally, each publication includes outstanding student comments written by second-year Staff Editors of the Journal.
The goal of EPJ is to advance legal scholarship by publishing the finest articles written nationally and internationally in cutting-edge areas of the law. EPJ also seeks to provide thought-provoking commentary and guidance to practitioners in the field to supplement their existing expertise. EPJ’s audience includes practicing attorneys, judges, law professors, law students, and others. With the these goals in mind, EPJ actively seeks and selects articles, essays, symposium pieces, and comments at the forefront of critical legal thinking in these important areas of the law.
Each year, EPJ hosts a stunning Estate Planning CLE and Expofeaturing well-known attorneys, judges, and academics from around the nation. This event gives EPJ members a tremendous opportunity to network with elite members of the estate planning community and gives legal professionals an expanded knowledge base of the field.
To subscribe to the award-winning EPJ, please contact Donna Jones at donna.jones@ttu.edu.