1. Introduction: Why Inheritance? Daniel Monk ( University of London, UK) and Suzanne Lenon (University of Lethbridge, Canada) Part One: Foregrounding Inequalities - Past and Present 2. Defining Family Trees and Building Family Fortunes: A Look into Dispossession and Enrichment Through Inheritance Laws, Allison Tait (University of Richmond, UK) 3. 'My Reputed Children': Legacies of Enslavement in Atlantic-Island Wills, Anne Bottomley (Kent Law School, UK) 4. 'Charitable Inclinations': Women's Bequests to Ireland's Magdalene Laundries, Mairead Enright (Birmingham Law School, UK) Part Two: Legal Fiction and Wills in Fiction 5. Surnames and Inheritance: Will-Plotting and Female Economic Power in the Eighteenth-Century Novel, Jolene Zigarovich (University of Northern Iowa, USA) 6. Murder, Inheritance and Family Provision in the Golden Age of English Detective Fiction, Rebecca Probert (Exeter University, UK) Part Three: Resistance, Rights and Agency 7. The Story of the Pink Cat: An Exploration of the Ways Care-Experienced People Navigate Inheritance, Delyth Edwards (University of Leeds, UK) and Rosie Canning (University of Southampton, UK) 8. Queer Property, Russell Perkins (Artist, USA) 9. Sentimental Value: Keeping Inheritance in the Family, Sarah Gilmartin (Lancaster University, UK) and Anita Purewal (Lancaster University, UK) Part Four: Adjudicating Inheritance/Adjudicating 'Family' 10. How Social Norms and Values Influence the Balance between Wills Variation Claimants and Testators, Allison A Cartier (Juris Doctor, Canada) 11. Testamentary Freedom in Debate: The Prerequisite of the Notary to Pass Down and to Inherit, Corinne Delmas (Universite Gustave Eiffel, France) 12. Children in Need and the Great Intergenerational Wealth Transfer: Squaring the Impossible Circle of Testamentary Freedom, Family Obligations and the Role of the State, Heather Conway (Queen's University Belfast, UK) and Sheena Grattan (TEP, UK) Part Five: Looking Backwards into the Future 13. The Power of Blood: How Succession Law's Reliance on DNA Reinvigorates White Supremacy and the Politics of Biological Privilege, Danaya C Wright (University of Florida, USA) 14. Women, Property and Agency: Contours of Matrilineal Inheritance among the Nayars in Kerala, India, Lekha N B (Sree Narayana College, India) and Antony Palackal (University of Kerala, India) 15. Egalitarianism or Just a Need for Revenues? Debates on Inheritance Taxation in Scandinavia, Martin Dackling (Lund University, Sweden) 16. Emile Durkheim's Proposal to Abolish Inheritance, Melanie Plouviez (Cote d'Azur University, France)
