UCLA School of Law hosts The Law of Succession in the 21st Century, Feb. 8, 2008. Details after the jump.
UCLA School of Law
Generous support from the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel Foundation makes it possible to offer the conference free of charge.
The luncheon is sponsored by Aspen Publishers, in honor of Professor Jesse Dukeminier.
RSVP to reserve a spot and for lunch (lunch available only to those who register in advance)
RSVP by January 25 to: Karen Mathews, UCLA School of Law, Box 951476
Email: mathews|at|law.ucla.edu; Phone: 310-206-7610; Fax: 310-825-6023
8:00 Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:30 Introduction to the Symposium
Susan N. Gary, Professor of Law, University of Oregon
8:45 Succession Law and the Changing Family
The Parent-Child Relationship in Inheritance Re-examined for the 21st Century
Kristine S. Knaplund, Professor of Law, Pepperdine University School of Law
Frontiers of Succession: Examples from Domestic Partnerships
Thomas P. Gallanis, Professor of Law, University of Minnesota
Blood and Behavior: A Theory of Contraction for Heirship
Anne-Marie Rhodes, Professor of Law, Loyola University Chicago School of Law
Commentators
Turney P. Berry, Partner, Wyatt, Tarrant & Combs, LLP
Mary Louise Fellows, Everett Fraser Professor of Law, University of Minnesota
10:45 Break
11:00 Non-Probate Transfers
The Revocable Trust Device: A Matter of Life and Death
Ira Mark Bloom, Justice David Josiah Brewer Distinguished Professor of Law, Albany Law School
Commentators
Grayson M.P. McCouch, Professor of Law, University of San Diego
Jeffrey A. Schoenblum, Centennial Professor of Law, Vanderbilt University Law School
12:15 Lunch and Keynote Speaker
The Twentieth Century Revolution Twenty Years On
John Langbein, Sterling Professor of Law and Legal History, Yale Law School
1:45 Probate Issues
Text and Time: A Theory of Testamentary Obsolescence
Adam J. Hirsch,William and Catherine VanDercreek Professor of Law, Florida State University
Bequest Puzzles in Economics: A Legal Perspective
Max M. Schanzenbach, Bruce W. Nichols Visiting Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
Professor of Law, Northwestern University School of Law
Robert H. Sitkoff, John L. Gray Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
The Changing Psychology of Dead Hand Control
Ronald Chester, Professor of Law, New England School of Law.
Commentators
James Lindgren, Professor of Law, Northwestern University School of Law
William M. McGovern, Jr., Professor Emeritus, U.C.L.A. School of Law
Eric Rakowski, Edward C. Halbach, Jr. Professor of Trust and Estates Law, U.C. Berkeley School of Law Boalt Hall
3:45 Closing Remarks
Susan N. Gary, Professor of Law, University of Oregon
4:00 Reception
