Listen to AALS Program “Inheritance Law and the Empirical Scholar”
On January 5, 2006, the AALS Section on Donative Transfers, Fiduciaries and Estate Planning conducted a session at the AALS Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C. entitled Inheritance Law and the Empirical Scholar.
The AALS has just made the audio portion of this session available in MP3 format. If you are interested in listening to this program, right-click on the link above, select “Save Target As,” and then save to your hard drive, iPod, or other device. Note that the file is over 20M in size so be sure to have a fast Internet connection.
Below is the description of the program as provided by the AALS:
Moderator: E. Gary Spitko, Santa Clara University School of Law
Speakers: Mary Louise Fellows, University of Minnesota Law School
Michael Heise, Cornell Law School
Justin D. Levinson, University of Hawaii William S. Richardson School of Law
Ray D. Madoff, Boston College Law School
Robert H. Sitkoff, Northwestern University School of LawThis program will focus on opportunities for empirical scholarship in inheritance law and methodological issues particularly relevant to empirical scholarship in inheritance law.
Some of the panelists will discuss their present and past empirical research in inheritance law with a focus on methodological issues that have arisen of particular concern to inheritance law scholars. More generally, panelists also will consider the underdeveloped opportunities for empirical work in the donative transfers area, the areas of inquiry for which empirical scholarship might prove most helpful in inheritance law reform efforts, and some of the empirical methods that might prove most useful to inheritance law scholars. Finally, the panel also will address issues relating to empirical project design and funding, collaboration by law professors with social scientists doing empirical scholarship, the importance of peer review, and placement of empirical legal scholarship.