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Inheritance Matters: Kinship, Property, Law

Edited by: Suzanne Lenon, Daniel Monk

ISBN13: 9781509964819
Published: September 2023
Publisher: Hart Publishing
Country of Publication: UK
Format: Hardback
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This book makes a compelling case for placing the social and legal practices of inheritance centre stage to make sense of fundamental questions of our time.

Drawing on historical, literary, sociological, and legal analysis, this is a rich collection of original and international contributions. The book demonstrates how inheritance is, and has always been, about far more than the set of legal processes for the distribution of wealth and property upon death. The contributions range from exploring the intractable tensions underlying family disputes, legal arguments, and political debates about taxation, to revisiting literary plots in the past and presenting a contemporary artistic challenge of heirship.

Revealing the richness and complexity of ideas about 'passing on', 'legacies', and 'heirlooms', the book troubles some of the enduring consequences of 'charitable bequests', 'family money', and 'estate planning'. It makes clear the importance of feminist, queer, and critical perspectives on practices of inheritance.

With an introduction that presents a critical mapping of the field of inheritance studies, this fascinating, imaginative, interdisciplinary collection deepens our understanding of the stakes of inheritance law.

Subjects:
Family Law, Law and Society
Contents:
1. Introduction: Why Inheritance?
Suzanne Lenon (University of Lethbridge, Canada) and Daniel Monk (Birkbeck, University of London, UK)

Part One: Making Inheritance
2. Fathers, Families and Fortunes: The Role of Wills in Metropolitan Legacies of Colonial Enslavement in Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Century Britain
Anne Bottomley (University of Kent, UK)
3. Family Names
Sahar Fathi (independent researcher, USA)
4. Interrogating Inheritance through Care Experience
Delyth Edwards (University of Leeds, UK) and Rosie Canning (University of Southampton, UK)
5. Benefactors and Friends: Bequests, Reparation and the Irish Magdalene Laundry
Máiréad Enright (University of Birmingham, UK)
6. Women, Property and Agency: Contours of Matrilineal Inheritance among the Nayars in Kerala, India
Lekha N. B. (Sree Narayana College, Kerala, India)
7. Inheritance, the Law, and the Golden Age of British Crime Fiction
Rebecca Probert (University of Exeter, UK)
8.
43 Photographs
Russell Perkins (Artist, USA/UK)

Part Two: Regulating Inheritance
9. Durkheim and Inheritance
Mélanie Plouviez (Côte d'Azur University, France)
10. Surnames and Inheritance: Will-Plotting and Female Economic Power in the Eighteenth-Century Novel
Jolene Zigarovich (University of Northern Iowa, USA)
11. Testamentary Freedom in Debate: The Prerequisite of the Notary to Pass Down and to Inherit
Corinne Delmas (Nantes University, France)
12. Women's Land Inheritance in Egypt and the MENA Region: Between Social Customs and State Law
Mennatullah Hendawy (Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt) and Monika Lindbekk (University of Bergen, Norway)
13. Still More Questions than Answers: Reflecting on Lady Hale's Reflections in Ilott v The Blue Cross
Heather Conway (Queen's University Belfast, UK)
14. The Testamentary Teeter-Totter: Considering How Social and Cultural Values Influence the Balancing Act between Wills Variation Claimants and Testators
Allison A Cartier (independent researcher, Canada)
15. Debates on Inheritance Taxation in Scandinavia
Martin Dackling (Lund University, Sweden)
16. Family Trees, Family Ties, and Family Fortunes
Allison Tait (University of Richmond, USA)