Inheritance and the Right to Bequeath

Hans-Christoph Schmidt am Busch is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Braunschweig, Germany. Daniel Halliday is Associate Professor in Political Philosophy at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Thomas Gutmann is Professor of Civil Law and Philosophy of Law at the Faculties of Law and of Philosophy and Co-Director of the Research Institute for Philosophy of Law at the University of Münster, Germany.

Introduction 1

THOMAS GUTMANN, DANIEL HALLIDAY, AND HANS-CHRISTOPH SCHMIDT AM BUSCH

2 What, if anything, is wrong with bequest? A preliminary sketch

STEFAN GOSEPATH

3 The morality of charitable bequests

MIRANDA PERRY FLEISCHER

4 Is the right to bequeath a supernatural power?

HILLEL STEINER

5 The right to bequeath as a common legal power

CONSTANTIN LUFT AND THOMAS GUTMANN

6 Property rights and the power to transfer

DANIEL HALLIDAY

7 The double function of inheritance: Rethinking conditional bequests

SHELLY KREICZER-LEVY

8 Remembrance, esteem, and the right to bequeath

HANS-CHRISTOPH SCHMIDT AM BUSCH

9 Inheritance law and the challenge of securing care in old age: A three-pronged solution

DAPHNA HACKER

10 Natural right or convention? Fichte on the status of the right to bequeath property and the right to inherit property

DAVID JAMES

11 Property in the tension between family and civil society: Inheritance according to G. W. F. Hegel and Eduard Gans

CHRISTOPHER YEOMANS

12 Inheritance tax, justice and family businesses

CHRISTIAN NEUHÄUSER

13 Taxing wealth and wealth transfers in the 21st century

JENNIFER BIRD-POLLAN

List of contributors

Index