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Pregnancy Advance Directives, Joan H. Krause

Cardozo Law Review

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Civil Rights Catch-22s, Jonathan P. Feingold

Cardozo Law Review

Civil rights advocates have long viewed litigation as a vital path to social change. In many ways, it is. But in key respects that remain underexplored in legal scholarship, even successful litigation can hinder remedial projects. This perverse effect stems from civil rights doctrines that incentivize litigants (or their attorneys) to foreground community plight—such as academic underachievement or overincarceration. Rational plaintiffs, responding in kind, deploy legal narratives that tend to track racial stereotypes and regressive theories of inequality. When this occurs, even successful lawsuits can harden the structural and behavioral forces that produce and perpetuate racial inequality.

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Zoning And The Cost Of Housing: Evidence From Silicon Valley, Greater New Haven, And Greater Austin, Robert C. Ellickson

Cardozo Law Review

Municipal zoning, shockingly, may be the most consequential regulatory program in the United States. This Article develops metrics for measuring the extent to which a locality’s zoning practices are exclusionary, that is, limit construction of least-cost housing. It applies the metrics to actual zoning ordinances and zoning maps, materials that legal scholars have seldom closely appraised. The municipalities chosen for study lie in three metropolitan areas, the ones listed in the Article’s title. Of the three, zoning in Greater Austin, one of the fastest growing metropolitan areas in the United States, is—to no one’s surprise—the most conducive to housing development. …

From Museum To The Auction Block: Regulating The Deaccessioning Of Art, Jenny Lyubomudrova

Cardozo Law Review

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Strangers In The Law: Lawyers' Law And The Other Legal Dimensions, Mauro Bussani

Cardozo Law Review

Political and legal theories have long been takingfor granted the idea that law is the province of government and government recognized authorities, including the judiciary. They have concentrated on the processes and principles, by which the form and substance of State law are determined, implemented, and enforced. This law is what I will call official or State law. By contrast, many non-official sites of legal production have always existed and still exist (outside and) inside the West. These sites produce rules that may flourish indifferent to or in opposition to official law and take the settlement of disputes arising out …

Facilitating The Intent Of Deceased Social Media Users, Yael Mandel

Cardozo Law Review

This Note will proceed in four parts. Part I will discuss the background of general testamentary principles of trusts and estates law. Part II will address the existing post-life policies of Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, and Twitter and the implications of the recently drafted acts addressing the disposition of digital assets. Part III will propose adding some type of testamentary formalities for the distribution of access to a deceased user's social media accounts, such as adding an electronic signature line and requiring the user to re-enter their password before saving their selections. In addition, Part III proposes the application of certain …

Trust Decanting: A Critical Perspective, Stewart E. Sterk

Cardozo Law Review

The article critically examines the legal and policy implications of decanting, a process allowing trustees to transfer assets into a new trust with modified terms. It argues that while decanting offers flexibility and efficiency in trust administration, its potential for tax avoidance and imposition of external costs on creditors and the public fisc raises significant concerns. The analysis questions whether decanting aligns with the principles of testamentary freedom and the settlor's intent, while also highlighting the need for a balanced approach to mitigate its negative consequences.

Property Interests In Digital Assets: The Rise Of Digital Feudalism, Natalie M. Banta

Cardozo Law Review

The emergence of digital assets has created a host of new legal questions regarding their status as a property interest. Digital assets consist of intangible interests like e-mail accounts, social media accounts, reward points, and electronic media. These assets seem like a property interest, but because digital assets are a creature of contract, private contracts determine whether an owner can use, sell, transfer, exclude, donate, or dispose of the asset in a testamentary instrument. These digital asset contracts often take an unprecedented step of prohibiting or severely limiting the transfer of digital assets after death. By unilaterally eviscerating a long …

The Uniform Trust Code And The Common Law: An Analysis Of Three Sections Of The Code That Deviate From The Common Law And Why The Drafters Changed The Law, Christina Bogdanski

Cardozo Law Review

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The Limitations Of An Economic Agency Cost Theory Of Trust Law, Lee-Ford Tritt

Cardozo Law Review

Should the donor's specific interests or potentially conflicting theoretical economic principles control the creation and administration of trusts? In a highly influential article advancing an agency cost framework for trust law, Harvard Law Professor Robert Sitkoff suggests retooling trust law to focus on wealth maximization and to minimize costs stemming from an assumed misalignment of the interests between deemed "principals" and "agents" within the trust setting. An agency cost theory of trust law, however, reduces the complex, highly idiosyncratic, and emotionally charged nature of trust law into a simple business relationship. Given the special nature of trust law and practice …

Public Policy And Antisocial Testators, Ronald J. Scalise Jr.

Cardozo Law Review

This Article challenges the conventional wisdom that "deadhand" control by testators in certain situations is violative of public policy and should not be enforced. Specifically, it argues that many legacies conditioned on a beneficiary acting a certain way or doing a certain thing, such as not marrying or remarrying, should be enforced. This Article argues that the modern approach of disallowing conditions or restrictions on marital freedom in legacies is a product of a bygone era and that the reasons employed for invalidating such conditions are no longer sufficient justifications in the modern day for the current approach of courts. …

Intestate Inheritance Claims: Determining A Child's Right To Inherit When Biological And Presumptive Paternity Overlap, Megan Pendleton

Cardozo Law Review

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Trust Protectors, Agency Costs, And Fiduciary Duty, Stewart E. Sterk

Cardozo Law Review

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Why The Generation-Skipping Transfer Tax Sparked Perpetual Trusts, Mary Louise Fellows

Cardozo Law Review

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Article Five Of The Utc And The Future Of Creditors' Rights In Trusts, Robert T. Danforth

Cardozo Law Review

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Policy, Logic, And Persuasion In The Evolving Realm Of Trust Asset Protection, John K. Eason

Cardozo Law Review

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Perpetual Trusts, Conservation Servitudes, And The Problem Of The Future, Susan F. French

Cardozo Law Review

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Undoing Repeal Of The Rule Against Perpetuities: Federal And State Tools For Breaking Dynasty Trusts, Joel C. Dobris

Cardozo Law Review

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In Search Of A Unifying Principle For Article V Of The Uniform Trust Code: A Response To Professor Danforth, Jeffrey A. Schoenblum

Cardozo Law Review

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Fear Not The Asset Protection Trust, Adam J. Hirsch

Cardozo Law Review

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Distinguishing Trustees And Protecting Beneficiaries: A Response To Professor Leslie, Karen E. Boxx

Cardozo Law Review

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Common Law, Common Sense: Fiduciary Standards And Trustee Identity, Melanie B. Leslie

Cardozo Law Review

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Trust Protectors: Who Will Watch The Watchmen?, Gregory S. Alexander

Cardozo Law Review

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A Brief Comment On Trust Protectors, Jeffrey Evans Stake

Cardozo Law Review

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Perpetuities Or Taxes? Explaining The Rise Of The Perpetual Trust, Max M. Schanzenbach, Robert H. Sitkoff

Cardozo Law Review

By abolishing the Rule Against Perpetuities, twenty-one states have validated perpetual trusts. The prevailing view among scholars is that enactment of the generation skipping transfer (GST) tax in 1986 prompted the movement to abolish the Rule by conferring a salient tax advantage on long-term trusts. However, an alternate view holds that demand for perpetual trusts stems from donors' preference for control independent of tax considerations. Proponents of both views have adduced supporting anecdotal evidence. Using state-level panel data on trust assets prior to the adoption of the GST tax, we examine whether a state's abolition of the Rule gave the …

Introduction: Un Cygne Noir, Peter Goodrich

Cardozo Law Review

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Letter To Derrida/America, Anton Schütz

Cardozo Law Review

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In Defense Of Porfiry Petrovich, Robert Batey

Cardozo Law Review

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Jurisdictional Competition To Abolish The Rule Against Perpetuities: R.I.P. For The R.A.P., Stewart E. Sterk

Cardozo Law Review

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Paul, Pomo, And The Legitimacy Of Choice Post 9/11: A Brief Comment On Three Papers, Richard H. Weisberg

Cardozo Law Review

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