The Tax Law of Charitable Giving, 6th Edition

A Letter to the Reader

It is with a heavy heart that we relay the news to you that Bruce Richard Hopkins, JD, LLM, SJD passed away on October 31, 2021. Bruce's love for the law and for writing resulted in a wonderful relationship with Wiley that lasted for better than 30 years. Throughout that time, Bruce penned more than 50 books as well as writing Bruce R. Hopkins’ Nonprofit Counsel (a newsletter published monthly for 40 years). Bruce's texts are practical guides about nonprofits written for both lawyers and laypeople, many of which are considered vital to law libraries across the country. The ideas just kept flowing.

Beloved by many, Bruce was often referred to as the “Dean of Nonprofit Law.” His teaching muscle was built over a period of 19 years when he was Professional Lecturer in Law at George Washington University National Law Center. As Professor from Practice at the University of Kansas, School of Law, Bruce exercised his generative spirit teaching and mentoring younger colleagues. Always the legal scholar, he could brilliantly take complicated concepts and distill them down into easily understood principles for beginners, seasoned colleagues, and those unfamiliar with the subject matter. He was a presenter and featured speaker, both nationally and internationally, at numerous conferences throughout his career, among them Representing and Managing Tax-Exempt Organizations (Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, DC) and the Private Foundations Tax Seminar (El ...