Inheritance and the Right to Bequeath

Legal and Philosophical Perspectives

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

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

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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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2022-09-21
Mått156 x 234 x 18 mm
Vikt620 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieLaw and Politics
Antal sidor240
FörlagTaylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN9780367760298

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Hans-Christoph Schmidt am Busch is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Braunschweig, Germany.Daniel Halliday is Associate Professor in Political Philosophy at the University of Melbourne, Australia.Thomas Gutmann is Professor of Civil Law and Philosophy of Law at the Faculties of Law and of Philosophy and Co-Director of the Research Institute for Philosophy of Law at the University of Münster, Germany.

Introduction 1THOMAS GUTMANN, DANIEL HALLIDAY, AND HANS-CHRISTOPH SCHMIDT AM BUSCH2 What, if anything, is wrong with bequest? A preliminary sketch STEFAN GOSEPATH3 The morality of charitable bequests MIRANDA PERRY FLEISCHER4 Is the right to bequeath a supernatural power? HILLEL STEINER5 The right to bequeath as a common legal power CONSTANTIN LUFT AND THOMAS GUTMANN6 Property rights and the power to transfer DANIEL HALLIDAY7 The double function of inheritance: Rethinking conditional bequests SHELLY KREICZER-LEVY8 Remembrance, esteem, and the right to bequeath HANS-CHRISTOPH SCHMIDT AM BUSCH9 Inheritance law and the challenge of securing care in old age: A three-pronged solution DAPHNA HACKER10 Natural right or convention? Fichte on the status of the right to bequeath property and the right to inherit property DAVID JAMES11 Property in the tension between family and civil society: Inheritance according to G. W. F. Hegel and Eduard Gans CHRISTOPHER YEOMANS12 Inheritance tax, justice and family businesses CHRISTIAN NEUHÄUSER13 Taxing wealth and wealth transfers in the 21st century JENNIFER BIRD-POLLANList of contributors Index