Who We Are

Ronald Sokol

After a half century litigating in the U.S., France, and England, I argued my last case in 2025 and have now limited my practice to advising on cross border inheritances, drafting wills, winding up of estates, French tax aspects of estate planning, trust issues, negotiating and advising on the purchase of secondary homes in France, and a few other matters.

I continue to write. My latest book, co-authored with my son Daniel, a barrister in London, is A Young Person’s Guide to Law and Justice (2024). I tried to deal with the messy issue of the French treatment of trusts in a law review article French Fear of Trusts and the Law of 29 July 2011. My book on Federal Habeas Corpus has been cited by the U.S. Supreme Court and federal courts throughout the United States.

I hold both JD and LLM degrees from the University of Virginia. I have taught a seminar on justice at Imperial College, London, in Norway and on international law in France. I have contributed op-ed articles to the New York Times and Project Syndicate. I speak English and French.