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Somedays, I Have Second Thoughts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 December 2018

Hendrik Hartog
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Abstract

In this short response to the reviewers of Someday All This Will Be Yours, A History of Inheritance and Old Age (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2012), the author identifies some of the paradoxes and difficulties that researching and writing the book posed and, along the way, qualifies and complicates some of the conclusions that he then drew. In particular, he questions the extent to which a work of history speaks to the concerns of the emerging field of elder law.

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Review Essay
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Law & Social Inquiry , Volume 40 , Issue 2 , Spring 2015 , pp. 519 - 530
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Copyright © American Bar Foundation, 2015 

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