The first seminar in the ‘Law, Wealth and Inequality’ project will focus on the role law, and in particular property, trusts and succession law, have played in creating and maintaining dynastic wealth.

Wealth inequality is a global issue of increasing economic and social importance, with growing awareness that the gap between the wealthy and the poor is increasing.

Furthermore, an abundance of statistical research demonstrates that the proportion of GDP of many countries in the developed and developing world consisting of unearned income derived from capital is growing year on year.

At the same time the share of GDP paid out as earned income such as wages and salaries continues to fall. A key question is what role the law plays in all of this and what should law do about this situation? And, how do different areas of the law interact to affect inequality?

Speakers at the seminar will be:

• Professor Brooke Harrington, professor of sociology at Dartmouth College
  Professor Joshua Getzler, professor of law and legal history at the University of Oxford.

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