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Wills, Trusts & Estates Prof…
Wills, Trusts & Estates Prof Blog
By Texas Tech University School of Law Professor Gerry W. Beyer.
http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/trusts_estates_prof/
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May 24
New Hampshire Register of Probate Fights to Keep his Duties From Being Eliminated
New Hampshire Register of Probate Fights to Keep his Duties From Being EliminatedAfter being elected last November as the Hillsborough County Register of Probate, Joseph Kelly Levasseur learned that his new executive position has been virtually eliminated by a 2011 statewide reorganization of the judicial system.… -
May 24
Designated Beneficiaries of IRAs and See-Through Trust
Designated Beneficiaries of IRAs and See-Through TrustIn a recent private letter ruling, the IRS provided some guidance on what constitutes a designated beneficiary and what determines the applicable distribution period of an IRA. Under IRC § 401(a)(9)(E), a “designated beneficiary” is any… -
May 24
IRS Addresses Income Tax Basis Increases for Assets Held in Grantor Trust
IRS Addresses Income Tax Basis Increases for Assets Held in Grantor TrustIn a recent private letter ruling, the IRS found assets in a foreign grantor trust received an income tax basis increase upon the death of the grantor. The non-citizen grantor created a foreign grantor trust funded with shares of non-U.S....
Rank this Week: 16
JOTWELL - The Journal of Things We…
JOTWELL - The Journal of Things We Like (Lots)
Edited by University of Miami School of Law Professor Michael Froomkin, The Journal of Things We Like (Lots)–JOTWELL–invites law professors to join us in filling a telling gap in legal scholarship by creating a space where legal academics will go to identify, celebrate, and discuss the best new legal scholarship.
http://jotwell.com/
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May 24
Colonial and Postcolonial Constructions of Family Law
Colonial and Postcolonial Constructions of Family LawSylvia Wairimu Kang'ara, Beyond Bed And Bread: Making The African State Through Marriage Law Reform -- Constitutive And Transformative Influences of Anglo-American Legal Thought, 9 Hastings Race & Poverty L. J. 353 (2012),… -
May 22
Provoked Intimate Femicides: A Privatized Version of “Honour”?
Provoked Intimate Femicides: A Privatized Version of “Honour”?Pascale Fournier, Pascal McDougall & Anna R. Dekker, Dishonour, Provocation and Culture: Through the Beholder’s Eye?, 16(2) Can. Crim. L. Rev. 161 (2012), available at the University of Ottawa.Isabel GrantIn their… -
May 20
The Care and Feeding of Sticky Defaults in Information Privacy Law
The Care and Feeding of Sticky Defaults in Information Privacy LawLauren Willis, When Nudges Fail: Slippery Defaults, 80 U. Chi. L. Rev. ___ (forthcoming 2013) available at SSRN.Paul OhmIf Jotwell is meant to surface obscure gems of legal scholarship, which might go unnoticed otherwise, I might be missing…
Rank this Week: 111
Legal Writing Prof Blog
Legal Writing Prof Blog
By Professors Nancy Soonpaa, Sue Liemer, Coleen M. Barger and Mark E. Wojcik.
http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/legalwriting/
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May 24
Narrative, court decisions, and critical theory
Narrative, court decisions, and critical theoryLegal writing professor Linda Edwards of UNLV has written an article exploring the relationship between critical theory and law. As her abstract explains, the piece “uses narrative theory and cognitive science to help traditionalists begin… -
May 23
A New Take on the Skills v. Doctrine Debate
A New Take on the Skills v. Doctrine DebateThe WSJ Law Blog recently featured an article by Professor Paula Franzese, Seton Hall, contending that framing curricular issues as skills v. doctrinal misses the mark. Instead, Franzese contends that we should focus on right v. left brain.… -
May 22
Attention, word lover
Attention, word loverThe numerous names for linguistic phenomena may interest only word lovers—but there are many of those among this blog’s followers. Legal writing expert Bryan Garner, who counts himself among the word lovers, presents a passel of arcane…
Rank this Week: 208
Law School Academic Support Blog
Law School Academic Support Blog
By Rebecca Flanagan and Assistant Dean Amy Jarmon.
http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/academic_support/
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May 23
Membership in the Association of Academic Support Educators - How to Join
Membership in the Association of Academic Support Educators - How to JoinThe following announcement is from the ASP listserv: Dear friends and colleagues, I'd like to extend an invitation from the Association of Academic Support Educators to join our fledgling organization. AASE is a new professional organization… -
May 21
Top Five Things To Do Before Bar Prep:
Top Five Things To Do Before Bar Prep:5. Clean your house/apartment/living space. Create a positive and productive work environment. Think about where you will study and how you can ensure that it suits your needs for bar review. Also, this may be the last time you have... -
May 20
Article on Texting's Potential Impact on Formal Legal Writing
Article on Texting's Potential Impact on Formal Legal WritingHat tip to Sue Liemer, one of the Editors for the Legal Writing Prof Blog, for pointing out an interesting article by Lindsey P. Gustafson at the William H. Bowen School of Law - University of Arkansas Little Rock. The...
Rank this Week: 1400
Banking Law Prof Blog
Banking Law Prof Blog
By Professor Ann Graham.
http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/banking/
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Apr 4
Early Jail Release for Enron's Jeff Skilling?
Early Jail Release for Enron's Jeff Skilling?The Enron collapse in 2001 remains a significant example of greed run amok and corporate governance standards in complete rout. The Enron scandal led directly to passage of the Sarbanes Oxley Act (SOX) in 2002. Now the Justice Department… -
Apr 3
Pay Corporate Directors Like CEOs - Does "Aligning Incentives" Really Work?
Pay Corporate Directors Like CEOs - Does "Aligning Incentives" Really Work?Is this a new trend -- and is it likely to improve long-term profitability of publicly traded corporations? Or will it create a new compensation "arms race"? Two hedge funds are promising their director nominees compensation tied to… -
Apr 2
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac - Update
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac - UpdateThe Secondary Mortgage Market giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are back to making big profits. A significant question is whether, when, and how to scale back government involvement in the U.S. housing market through these two Government…
Rank this Week: 1742