New publications for T&E professors

Thomas P. Gallanis (N. William Hines Professor of Law, University of Iowa) reports the following:

The Uniform Law Commission has given its final approval to more than 250 pages of technical and conforming amendments to the Uniform Probate Code.  These amendments should be available soon on the Commission’s website, www.nccusl.org.  The amendments have been incorporated into the annual softcover volume of Uniform Trust and Estate Statutes, 2010-11 (prior editions edited by John Langbein and Lawrence Waggoner), ISBN 978-1-59941-709-7.  Foundation Press will begin shipping the book to law teachers this Friday, June 4.

The American Law Institute has approved the final chapters of the Restatement Third of Property: Wills and Other Donative Transfers.  Among other things, the Restatement simplifies the classification of present estates and future interests, and reformulates the Rule Against Perpetuities from a rule against remote vesting into a direct time-of-termination rule, using a generations-based perpetuity period.  These innovations have been incorporated into the forthcoming Estates, Future Interests, and Powers of Appointment in a Nutshell, Fourth Edition (co-authored with Lawrence Waggoner), ISBN 978-0-31490-453-9, which West will print this summer, in time for fall classes.

The Restatement provisions, the UPC amendments, and other innovations have been incorporated into the current draft of Family Property Law: Cases and Materials on Wills, Trusts, and Future Interests, Fifth Edition (prior editions co-authored with Lawrence Waggoner, Gregory Alexander, and Mary Louise Fellows).  The hardcover will be printed in advance of Fall 2011 classes.  In the interim, Foundation Press is making the draft casebook available now to law teachers as an e-book, through West’s Law School Exchange (login required). The URL is  http://exchange.westlaw.com/DocumentDisplay.aspx?DocID=1894&tab=mm   Comments and suggestions on the casebook draft are welcome.