Somedays, I Have Second Thoughts

In this short response to the reviewers of Someday All This Will Be Yours, A History of Inheritance and Old Age (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2012), the author identifies some of the paradoxes and difficulties that researching and writing the book posed and, along the way, qualifies and...

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Published in:Law & social inquiry 2015-03, Vol.40 (2), p.519-530
Main Author: Hartog, Hendrik
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Elderly
Hartog, Hendrik
Inheritance and Succession
Inheritances
Law
Older people
SYMPOSIUM: Hartog's "Someday All This Will Be Yours: A History of Inheritance and Old Age"
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Summary:In this short response to the reviewers of Someday All This Will Be Yours, A History of Inheritance and Old Age (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2012), the author identifies some of the paradoxes and difficulties that researching and writing the book posed and, along the way, qualifies and complicates same of the conclusions that he then drew. In particular, he questions the extent to which a work of history speaks to the concerns of the emerging field of elder law.
ISSN:0897-6546
1747-4469
1545-696X
DOI:10.1111/lsi.12131