The Elder Law Study

Welcome to the website for the Elder Law Study Group’s 2008 survey of persons teaching or writing in the field of elder law. 

We invite you to complete our survey which can be found by clicking here. To do so, please print out a copy of the survey, complete it, and return it to: 
Professor Nina A. Kohn 
Syracuse University College of Law 
E.I. White Hall, Faculty Suite 144H 
Syracuse, NY 13244 

The survey is part of a research study seeking to describe the current status of the field of elder law teaching and scholarship and to formulate recommendations for the field’s future development. The study is being conducted by the Elder Law Study Group, a group of legal academics and elder law experts brought together by the Borchard Foundation Center on Law and Aging and the Institute for Laws of Health and Aging at Pacific McGeorge School of Law. 

Your participation in this study is entirely voluntary, and your decision not to participate will involve no penalty or loss of benefits. By completing the survey, in whole or in part, and returning it, you will have evidenced your informed consent, and no further consent on your part is needed or expected. 

The co-principal investigators of this study are Distinguished Professor and Lecturer Edward D. Spurgeon of University of Pacific, McGeorge School of Law (nspurgeon@pacific.edu; 916-739-7058) and Associate Professor Nina A. Kohn of Syracuse University College of Law (mailto:nspurgeon@pacific.edu; 315-443-6565). Please feel free to contact either at any time with any questions about the research. If you have questions about your rights as a participant, please call the Research and Graduate Studies Office of the University of Pacific at 209-946-7356. 

If you wish to view the letter that accompanied the original mailing for this survey, please click here. Please note that the deadline for completing the survey has been extended beyond that stated in the original cover letter.