"The book's greatest achievement resides in its lively delivery, featuring captivating examples that render the material accessible to student and scholar alike.  The book's scope extends well beyond the dynasty trust, presenting colorful accounts of other interests subject to varying degrees of postmortem control such as the disposition of one's human remains, posthumous publicity and reputational concerns, and intellectual property created by the decedent.  Law students enrolled in my 4-credit Trusts and Estates course lavished the book with praise, perhaps entertained by anecdotes such as a composer's unsuccessful attempt to obtain a copyright license from Stephen Joyce, grandson of author James Joyce, to set eighteen words of Finnegans Wake  to music (said Stephen, "To put it politely, mildly, my wife and I don't like your music."), the shocking postmortem instructions to burn unpublished manuscripts of Virgil's  Aeneid and Franz Kafka's The Trial , or the dubious graveyard provenance of specimens used by the University of Pennsylvania for its then-novel course, first offered in 1745, in the study of human anatomy. Immortality and the Law is a commendable addition to any library. I have certainly added it to mine."-Reid Kress Weisbord, Journal of the American Taxation Association.