Nancy A McLaughlin, ‘Donor Standing to Enforce Charitable Gifts in the 21st Century’, 60 Real Property, Trust and Estate Law 207 (2025). In one dimension, the law of charity is oversimplified. A transfer either meets or fails to meet the definition of charitability. Lawmakers acknowledge no gradations of charity, and a gift to a food bank sustaining indigent citizens is treated in the same way as a gift to the National Mustard Museum. In another dimension, though, the opposite is true. As Nancy McLaughlin shows in a recent article, ‘Donor Standing to Enforce Charitable Gifts in the 21st Century’, categorical fragmentation has caused the law of charity to become overcomplicated. Professor McLaughlin’s article explores donors’ rights to oversee a charitable transfer after they have made it … (more)
[Adam Hirsch, JOTWELL, 21 September 2026]
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