After receiving his law degree from Yale, Gilbert Paul Verbit has been a law clerk to a Federal Appellate judge, a Fulbright Scholar, Legal Advisor to the Foreign Ministry of Tanza...view moreAfter receiving his law degree from Yale, Gilbert Paul Verbit has been a law clerk to a Federal Appellate judge, a Fulbright Scholar, Legal Advisor to the Foreign Ministry of Tanzania, a Senior Research Associate at Columbia Law School, a Director of the International Legal Center in New York and Professor of Law at Boston University specializing in the law of trusts. Following his retirement from teaching Professor Verbit settled in Cambridge (U.K.) where he is presently engaged in translating a ninth century Arabic treatise on the law of trusts.view less