Article On Correcting the Record Regarding the Restatement of Property’s Slayer Rule

Lawrence W. Waggoner (University of Michigan Law School) &  John H. Langbein (Yale University – Law School) recently published his article entitled, Correcting the Record Regarding the Restatement of Property’s Slayer Rule in the Brooklyn Law Review’s Symposium Issue on Restatements, 80 Brook. L. Rev. (2015). Provided below is an excerpt from the article:

In a 2014 law review symposium on Restatements of the Law, a paper by the then-Director of the American Law Institute, Lance Liebman, mistakenly claimed that we, as Reporters of the Restatement (Third) of Property: Wills and Other Donative Transfers, sought to contest the ancient slayer rule, the rule that prevents a felonious slayer from inheriting from the victim or otherwise benefiting from the slaying. To correct the record, we published this brief response in the same journal.