‘Dead Hand Control’

Lawrence M Friedman, ‘Immortal Longings: Perpetuity in Context’, 71 Buffalo Law Review 695 (2023). Professor Lawrence M Friedman has had a remarkable career. Much of his work has focused on legal history, and he has served as president of the American Society for Legal History in recognition of his distinction in that field. He also helped to pioneer empirical legal studies as a subdiscipline of scholarship. And, most fortunately for those of us who work in wills-and-trusts, he has contributed to our area as well, with a stream of articles and one book, beginning in the early 1960s and continuing until today – no fewer than six decades of superb scholarship on inheritance law … (more)

[Adam Hirsch, JOTWELL, 22 July 2025]

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