Remi Clignet, Death, Deeds, and Descendants: Inheritance in Modern America, with an introduction by Jens Beckert and Brooke Harrington
Year: 2013
Type: article
Abstract: Remi Clignet’s classic study of inheritance in the United States, originally published in 1992, has been reissued – a welcome development for a new generation of scholars ready to appreciate the compelling yet subtle force of his argument. The book is, in effect, an argument by demonstration concerning the relevance of law in private life, the interpretive ambiguities of testacy with respect to family life, and the relevance of the study of intergenerational wealth transfers for sociology’s ...
Source: Droit et Cultures
Author: Carol J. Greenhouse
Language: English
Topic: Family and Matrimonial Law
Subfield: Law
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4210273424