Edward C. Halbach, Jr., is professor emeritus (dean, 1966-75), School of Law (Boalt Hall), University of California, Berkeley. He has taught and lectured mainly in the fields of probate and trust law, federal taxation, trust investment law, and estate planning.

He has authored or co-authored articles, texts, and casebooks on wills, trusts, future interests, taxation, investment law, and estate planning. He was a co-reporter for the original Uniform Probate Code (1969), and is the reporter for the American Law Institute's Restatement Third of the Law of Trusts project (1989- ). A preliminary volume of this project was "The Prudent Investor Rule" (1992) (upon which the 1994 Uniform Prudent Investor Act was based); two regular volumes of the Restatement were published in 2003 and another in 2007, with the fourth and final volume currently in process.

Professor Halbach has been president of The International Academy of Estate and Trust Law and chair of the American Bar Association's Section of Real Property, Probate and Trust Law, as well as the division director of that section's Probate and Trust Division. He is a member of the American College of Tax Counsel, the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel, The American Law Institute (serving as an adviser on its Restatement Third of Property (Wills and Other Donative Transfers)), and the Uniform Law Commission's Joint Editorial Board for Uniform Trust and Estate Acts. Among his other long-term activities in the estate planning field are (current) service as editor of the Estate Planning and California Probate Reporter and on the editorial board of Estate Planning magazine, and (past) service on the governing board of California Continuing Education of the Bar and on the adjunct faculty of the University of Miami Graduate Estate Planning Program.

Professor Halbach has received the Treat "Award for Excellence" (National College of Probate Judges), the Tweed "Award for Special Merit in Continuing Legal Education" (ALI/ABA), an Honorary LL.D. from the University of Redlands, and the University of California's U.C. Berkeley Citation. He currently holds the A. James Casner Reporter's Chair of the American Law Institute.