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All-Time Most Popular Wills, Trusts, and Estates Articles Downloaded From SSRN

By Gerry W. Beyer

Here are the top ten all-time (that is, since January 2, 1997) articles downloaded from SSRN which are relevant to Wills, Trusts, and Estates.  (The first column shows the rank and the second, the number of downloads.)

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Jurisdictional Competition for Trust Funds: An Empirical Analysis of Perpetuities and Taxes
Robert H. Sitkoff, Max M. Schanzenbach
2 547 An Agency Costs Theory of Trust Law
Robert H. Sitkoff
3 452 Trust Law, Corporate Law, and Capital Market Efficiency
Robert H. Sitkoff
4 275 The Right to Destroy
Lior Strahilevitz
5 213 The New Business Entities in Evolutionary Perspective
Henry Hansmann, Reinier Kraakman, Richard C. Squire
6 179 Private Motive and Perpetual Conditions in Charitable Naming Gifts: When Good Names Go Bad
John K. Eason
7 173 Same Sex Marriage, Full Faith and Credit, and the Evasion of Obligation
Joseph William Singer
8 164 Trust as ‘Uncorporation’: A Research Agenda
Robert H. Sitkoff
9 155 Fall from Grace: Arming America and the Bellesiles Scandal
James Lindgren
10 150 Questioning the Trust Law Duty of Loyalty: Sole Interest or Best Interest?
John H. Langbein

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