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Elgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary.
In this highly informative book leading international scholars consider the potential avenues for future research on succession law. They examine the response of researchers to societal developments such as ageing populations, technological developments and changing family forms.
The extent to which succession law serves its most important functions, from testamentary freedom to the provision of clarity, is a core question for this book. Against that backdrop the authors explore key topics that are expected to occupy scholars, including electronic wills, disinheritance, intestate succession, aboriginal inheritance and modern funerals. Using a diverse range of research methods, contributors consider how research in succession law will evolve in the changing economic and social world order.
A Research Agenda for Succession Law is a valuable resource for scholars of succession, property and family law. It will also be beneficial for policymakers, practitioners and judges working in succession law.
Contents
Contents
Preface ix
1 Introduction to A Research Agenda for Succession Law 1
Brian Sloan
2 What should succession law do? The challenges and
opportunities of law reform 13
Nick Hopkins
3 Safeguarding legal capacity in the context of electronic
wills: a comparative law approach 33
Rosie Harding KC (Hon), Tina Cockburn, Bridget J Crawford,
Margaret Hall, and Kelly Purser
4 From paper to code: smart wills and smarter inheritance? 55
Farhana Hamid Butt
5 What is the place of will formalities in the future? 77
Prue Vines and Nicola Peart
6 Schrödinger's wills 95
Juliet Brook
7 The involvement of beneficiaries in the will-making process 112
Roger Kerridge
8 Investigating disinheritance 136
Rebecca Probert
9 Queering inheritance arrangements and will-writing 153
Antu Sorainen
10 Solidarity in succession law 170
Walter Pintens
11 Beyond bloodlines: rethinking intestate succession through
a merit-based approach 187
Lusina Ho and Rebecca Lee
12 Contested corpses, feuding families and the role of
succession law 205
Heather Conway and Sheena Grattan
Index 222
