The “Body Heat” T&E Interface

Associate Professor Diane J. Klein of the La Verne College of Law has recently published her article entitled Not Just a Study Break: Using Body Heat, Kanye West’s “Gold Digger,” and South Park to Teach (and Examine!) Wills & Trusts, Family Law, and Property in the Fall 2006 issue of The Law Teacher (at p. 8).

Included in this article is a detailed discussion of how to use the 1981 movie Body Heat in a Wills & Trusts class and/or examination.  The key issues surround the Rule Against Perpetuities.  Prof. Klein’s discussion provides both the questions the students should address and a brief analysis of the answers.

Note that students are unlikely to be familiar with this movie — it was released before the vast majority of our students were born.