Spring Symposium Issue 117:4 Released

Elder Law and Estate Planning Symposium, Spring Issue 117:4 Released

Penn State Law Review is proud to announce that Volume 117, Issue 4 is now available.  This issue features the Penn State Law Review’s recent symposium on elder law and estate planning:

Introduction:

  • Capacity, Conflict, and Change: Elder Law and Estate Planning Themes in an Aging World, Katherine C. Pearson (link)

Transcript:

  • Teaching Trusts & Estates and Elder Law: Pedagogy for the Future (link)

Articles:

  • Understanding Duties and Conflits of Interest — A Guide for the Honorable Agent, Linda S. Whitton (link)
  • Capacity for Lifetime and Estate Planning, Robert Whitman (link) 
  • Slow Lawyering: Representing Seniors in Light of Cognitive Changes Accompanying Aging, Mary Helen McNeal (link)
  • Supported Decision-Making: A Viable Alternative to Guardianship?, Nina A. Kohn, Jeremy A. Blumenthal & Amy T. Campbell (link)
  • “Striking for the Guardians and Protectors of the Mind”: The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Mental Disabilities and the Future of Guardianship Law, Michael Perlin (link)
  • “Elder Law” and Conflicts of Interest in the United States and Canada, James H. Pietsch & Margaret Hall (link)
  • Why Marriage is Still the Best Default in Estate Planning Conflicts, Lynne Marie Kohm (link)
  • Social Security Representative Payee MisuseReid K. Weisbord (link)
  • Conflicts of Interest in Medicine, Research, and Law: A Comparison, Stacey Tovino (link)

Dedication:

  • Louis F. Del Duca, Edward N. Polisher Distinguished Faculty ScholarMark Podvia (link)