Posts by Alfred Brophy

Now that I've written a little bit about the paper Stephen Davis and I have  on antebellum trusts and estates -- and especially on the context of Greene County, Alabama, …

The final installment of Melissa Jacoby's and Mirya Holman's guest posting on their new article:Today we’ll finish talking about our paper on medical bills and bankruptcy (our first post featured…

I told myself that I was going on a blogging diet -- no more posting (other than posts that are already written -- like my series on probate in the…

Continuing in the series that Melissa Jacoby and Mirya Holman are writing on their recent paper, Managing Medical Bills on the Brink of Bankruptcy:We’re back again on Managing Medical Bills on…

Well, I'm trying to finish up a draft of my paper for the Pastorius Conference.  It reprises work I did ages and ages ago on Francis Daniel Pastorius' Young Country…

I've asked Melissa Jacoby and Mirya Holman to post a little bit more about their paper, which I mentioned yesterday.  This is the first of three guest posts they'll be…

Rather remotely is the honest answer to this question.  But, in my attempt to link everything to famous people--hey, if there's the "Tribe Obama Thesis," why not "Reese Witherspoon on…

Wondering about the connections between bankruptcy and medical bills?  Melissa Jacoby (UNC Law School) and Mirya Holman (Duke Law School) have an important new paper on "Managing Medical Bills on…

Among the findings that surprised Stephen Davis and me in our study of wills in the old South is how many wills contained trusts (either explicit or implicit)--nearly 40%.  I…

Revisiting a post from a few years back at propertyprof:I thought I’d pass along a link to Marvin Gaye’s rendition of the National Anthem at the 1983 NBA All Star Game.  Given…