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Sunday Schedule
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Sunday, January 5, 2003
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10:30 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
Joint Program of Sections on Donative Transfers, Indian Nations and Indigenous Peoples and Minority Groups
- Gregory S. Alexander, Cornell Law School, and Chair, Section on Donative Transfers
- Stacy L. Leeds, University of North Dakota, and Chair, Section on Indian Nations and Indigenous Peoples
- Adrien Katherine Wing, University of Iowa, and Chair, Section on Minority Groups
- Tanya Kateri Hernandez, Rutgers University, Newark, and Program Chair
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Virginia Suite A
Marriott Wardman Park Hotel
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The Casebook and Beyond: Incorporating
Pluralistic Visions of Trusts and Estates
Moderator:
Tanya Kateri Hernandez, Rutgers University, Newark
Speakers:
- Jo J. Carrillo, University of California, Hastings
- W. Burlette Carter, The George Washington University
- Adrienne D. Davis, University of North Carolina
- Brant T. Lee, University of Akron
- The Honorable Patricia McDonald, Administrative Law Judge for Indian Probate Matters, U.S. Department of the Interior, Albuquerque, New Mexico
- Margaret E. Montoya, University of New Mexico
Law students frequently enroll in Trusts and Estates courses with the preconceived notion that the subject matter is dry and solely relevant for a very small segment of the population with great wealth. While such a characterization of Trusts and Estates has always been ill conceived, recent scholarship particularly underscores how erroneous the student perception has been. In order to further the development of methods for inclusive coverage of Trusts and Estates topics in the classroom and academic scholarship each panelist shall discuss a noteworthy aspect of Trusts and Estates that expands the parameters of a limited vision of the subject matter. The panel presentations shall cover such topics as: the enforcement of the Indian Land Consolidation Act from the perspective of an Administrative Law Judge for Indian Probate Matters in the U.S. Department of Interior; an examination of the use of wills and "hijuelas" (inventories of property) by persons of Latin American descent in the Americas as a demonstration of an intergenerational transfer property often with little fungible value but with great cultural, ethnic, and gendered meaning; the use of race-conscious trusts to compensate Japanese Americans for the harms of legally imposed discriminatory restrictions; how the experience of American slavery and racial discrimination against African Americans may serve as aids to reassessing dominant theories supporting inheritance laws; a comparative analysis of same-sex couple regulation of today with the historical judicial regulation of antebellum interracial sexual families; and the issues that arise in the estate planning of artists as distinct from other testators.
Business Meeting of Section on Donative Transfers at Program Conclusion
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