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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.

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Author:   Hans-Christoph Schmidt am Busch ,  Daniel Halliday ,  Thomas Gutmann
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9780367760298

ISBN 10:   0367760290
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   21 September 2022
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction 1 THOMAS GUTMANN, DANIEL HALLIDAY, AND HANS-CHRISTOPH SCHMIDT AM BUSCH 2 What, if anything, is wrong with bequest? A preliminary sketch STEFAN GOSEPATH 3 The morality of charitable bequests MIRANDA PERRY FLEISCHER 4 Is the right to bequeath a supernatural power? HILLEL STEINER 5 The right to bequeath as a common legal power CONSTANTIN LUFT AND THOMAS GUTMANN 6 Property rights and the power to transfer DANIEL HALLIDAY 7 The double function of inheritance: Rethinking conditional bequests SHELLY KREICZER-LEVY 8 Remembrance, esteem, and the right to bequeath HANS-CHRISTOPH SCHMIDT AM BUSCH 9 Inheritance law and the challenge of securing care in old age: A three-pronged solution DAPHNA HACKER 10 Natural right or convention? Fichte on the status of the right to bequeath property and the right to inherit property DAVID JAMES 11 Property in the tension between family and civil society: Inheritance according to G. W. F. Hegel and Eduard Gans CHRISTOPHER YEOMANS 12 Inheritance tax, justice and family businesses CHRISTIAN NEUHÄUSER 13 Taxing wealth and wealth transfers in the 21st century JENNIFER BIRD-POLLAN List of contributors Index

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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.

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