Critical Trusts and Estates at Oklahoma City University School of Law

Today and tomorrow, Oklahoma City University School of Law is hosting the Critical Trusts & Estates Conference.  Here are today's programs and speakers:

Changing Families, Changing Law? Redux

• Patricia Cain, Santa Clara University School of Law, What’s Right and Wrong about the Uniform Cohabitants’ Economic Remedies Act
• Naomi Cahn, University of Virginia School of Law, The Hundred-Year Life
• Nick Piska, Kent University, The Families and the English Law of Succession
• Bria Winston, Mugg Winston, Edmond, Oklahoma, Changing Families in Oklahoma Law

Death and Taxes

• Victoria Haneman, Creighton University School of Law, Tax-Sheltering Funeral Savings
• Kayla R. Stephen, Attorney, Kirschbaum Law Group, Adjunct Professor, Mitchell College, Pay to Stay Incarceration and Probate
• Phyllis Taite, Oklahoma City University School of Law, Do Taxing Systems Impact Income and Wealth Inequality? Investigating Disparities in OECD Member and Contributing Countries
• Bridget Crawford, Pace University Elizabeth Haub School of Law and Lee-ford Tritt, University of Florida Levin College of Law, The Appalachia Tax

Pedagogy Roundtable: Bringing Race, Gender, and Class into the Wills and Trusts Classroom

• Karen Sneddon, Mercer University Walter F. George School of Law Challenging Students’ Assumptions to Aid Them in Serving Underserved Clients
• Carla Spivack, Oklahoma City University School of Law, Teaching Breach of Fiduciary Duties in the Context of Cobell v. Salazar
• Allison Anna Tait, Richmond School of Law, Teaching About the Role of Succession Law in Perpetuating the Wealth Gap
• Deborah S. Gordon, Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law Language Matters

Trusts and Estates on the Ground: How We Plan, How We Draft, How We Know What We are Planning and Drafting

• Tina Cockburn, Faculty of Business and Law, Queensland University of Technology, Stephen Whyte, School of Economics & Finance, Queensland University of Technology, A Behavioral Economics Analysis of Will Making Preferences: Lessons from Australia
• Karen J. Sneddon, Mercer University Walter F. George School of Law, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Narrative and Wills
• Andrew Gilden, Willamette University School of Law
• Eva Subotnik, St. John’s University School of Law, Copyright’s Capacity Gap

Keynote Speech

Susan Gary, University of Oregon School of Law, Trust Law as a Tool for Employee-Controlled Companies

Tomorrow, the program will continue with more T&E discussion (details after the fold).

Intersections: Heirs Property and Land Fractionation

• Danaya Wright, University of Florida, Levin College of Law L
• Lee-ford Tritt, University of Florida Levin College of Law
• Casey Ross, General Counsel, Oklahoma City University

The Restatement of Trusts and the Evil Stepmother

• Naomi Cahn, University of Virginia School of Law
• Allison Tait, Richmond School of Law
• Deborah Gordon, Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law

Lunch Address

William LaPiana, New York Law School

Debate -- Resolved: Wealth Should Escheat to the State at Death Because it was Never Yours Anyway

• Lee-ford Tritt, University of Florida, Levin College of Law
• Carla Spivack, Oklahoma City University School of Law
• William LaPiana, New York Law School