Inheritance and the Right to Bequeath : Legal and Philosophical Perspectives

著者名：Schmidt am Busch, Hans-Christoph (EDT)/Halliday, Daniel (EDT)/Gutmann, Thomas (EDT)

Routledge（2022/09/21発売）

• 言語：ENG
• ISBN：9781032331577
• eISBN：9781000645842

Description

In every Western democracy today, inheritances have a very profound influence on people’s lives. This motivates renewed scholarship on inheritance law by philosophy and the legal sciences. The present volume aims to contribute to some ongoing areas of inquiry while also filling some gaps in research.

It is organized in a highly interdisciplinary way. In the thirteen chapters of the book, written by outstanding philosophers and legal scholars, the following questions, among others, are discussed: What is the nature of the right to bequeath? What are the social functions of bequest and inheritance? What arguments concerning justice have philosophers and legal scholars advanced in favour or against practices of bequest and inheritance? How should we think about taxing the wealth transfers that occur in bequest and inheritance? In discussing these questions, the authors break new ground and offer much needed insight into several related domains, such as the philosophy of law; legal theory; general and applied ethics; social and political philosophy; theories of justice; and the history of legal, political, and economic thought.

This book will be of great interest to scholars in these areas as well as policy-makers.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction

Thomas Gutmann, Daniel Halliday, Hans-Christoph Schmidt am Busch

2. What, if anything, is wrong with bequest?

Stefan Gosepath

3. The Morality of Charitable Bequests

Miranda Perry Fleischer

4. Is the right to bequeath a supernatural power?

Hillel Steiner

5. The Right to Bequeath as a Common Legal Power

Constantin Luft and Thomas Gutmann

6. Property Rights and the Power to Transfer

Daniel Halliday

7. The Double Function of Inheritance: Rethinking Conditional Bequests

Shelly Keiczer-Levy

8. Remembrance, Esteem and the Right to Bequeath

Hans-Christoph Schmidt am Busch

9. Inheritance Law and the Challenge of Securing Care in Old Age

Daphna Hacker

10. Natural Right or Convention?

David James

11. Property in the Tension between Family and Civil Society

Christopher Yeomans

12. Inheritance Tax Justice and Family Businesses

Christian Neuhäuser

13. Taxing Wealth and Wealth Transfers in the 21st Century

Jennifer Bird-Pollan