Real Property, Trust and Estate Law Journal Fall/Winter 2020 Issue

Billboards, Signs, Free Speech, and the First Amendment

Daniel R. Mandelker

This Article reviews the competing demands free speech law makes when applied to sign and billboard ordinances. It describes the free speech doctrines that apply, explains ambiguities and conflicts, and makes recommendations for sign regulations that can avoid constitutional problems.

The Electronic Wills Act: Facing the Inevitable

Susan N. Gary

In response to increasing legislative activity involving electronic wills, in 2017 the Uniform Law Commission (ULC) appointed the Drafting Committee on Uniform Electronic Wills Act to develop a uniform act providing rules governing the execution of electronic wills. The committee strove to create a statute that would be consistent with existing wills laws but would address differences for wills executed electronically.

Two Restatements of Conflict of Laws Concerning Exercises of Special Powers of Appointment

James P. Spica

he Restatement (Second) of Conflict of Laws innovates a narrow departure from the choice of law implications of the so-called “relation back theory” for the case in which a testamentary power of appointment granted by the terms of a trust is (or may have been) exercised by a bequest that does not mention the power when the trust instrument neither requires nor waives specific reference and the law governing construction of the donor’s trust is different from that governing construction of the donee’s will.

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