Over at JOTWELL,
Laura Edwards (Duke University) has posted some
thoughts on
Hendrik Hartog's
Someday All This Will Be Yours: A History of Inheritance and Old Age (2012). Here's the first paragraph:
As the title suggests, Someday All This Will Be Yours is a legal
history about inheritance and old age. The legal conflicts that form the
core of the book make for compelling reading. Even so, the title does
not capture the book’s most compelling elements, which challenge
conventional assumptions about legal history and the place of law in the
past.
Read on
here.