Inheritance and the Right to Bequeath

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