AALS 2008 Annual Meeting Donative Transfers Program Announced

According to the Spring 2007 Newsletter of the Association of American Law Schools’ Section on Donative Transfers, Fiduciaries and Estate Planning, the Section’s program at the 2008 AALS Annual Meeting, chaired by Ray Madoff of Boston College, will be as follows:

New Research in Trusts and Estates.  This program focuses on research in progress.  Ira Bloom (Albany) will be speaking on the harmonization (or lack of harmonization) of rules governing wills and revocable trusts.  Gary Spitko (Santa Clara) and Mary Louise Fellows (Minnesota) will be presenting results from their current empirical research on using insights from beneficiary designations in will substitutes as a mode of determining donor intent for intestacy statutes.  Kris Knaplund (Pepperdine) will be presenting her research on the relationship between the charitable bequests and the estate tax and Patrica Cain (Iowa) will be presenting her work on the current status of wills, trusts and planning issues for same sex couples.