Research Agenda for Succession Law

Edited by Brian Sloan, Assistant Professor in Property Law, Faculty of Law; Fellow of Robinson College, University of Cambridge, UK

• ContentsPreface ix1 Introduction to A Research Agenda for Succession Law 1Brian Sloan2 What should succession law do? The challenges andopportunities of law reform 13Nick Hopkins3 Safeguarding legal capacity in the context of electronicwills: a comparative law approach 33Rosie Harding KC (Hon), Tina Cockburn, Bridget J Crawford,Margaret Hall, and Kelly Purser4 From paper to code: smart wills and smarter inheritance? 55Farhana Hamid Butt5 What is the place of will formalities in the future? 77Prue Vines and Nicola Peart6 Schrödinger’s wills 95Juliet Brook7 The involvement of beneficiaries in the will-making process 112Roger Kerridge8 Investigating disinheritance 136Rebecca Probert9 Queering inheritance arrangements and will-writing 153Antu Sorainen10 Solidarity in succession law 170Walter Pintens11 Beyond bloodlines: rethinking intestate succession througha merit-based approach 187Lusina Ho and Rebecca Lee12 Contested corpses, feuding families and the role ofsuccession law 205Heather Conway and Sheena GrattanIndex 222

‘Succession law is on the move. As society changes, so succession law, if slowly and hesitantly, changes with it. This timely and engaging book charts possible courses for the future both for the law of succession and for the scholarly research needed for its orderly development.’