William A. Reppy, Jr.

Books

Community Property in the United States (Carolina Academic Press, 6th ed. 2004, 7th ed. 2009, 8th ed. 2015) (8th ed. also with Sally Brown Richardson) (with Cynthia A. Samuel)
Texas Matrimonial Property Law (Michie Co. 1983; various publishers 2nd ed. 1993 - 11th ed. 2009) (with Joseph W. McKnight)
Gilbert Law Summaries: Community Property (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Legal and Professional Publications, 11th ed. 1980, 12th ed. 1982, 13th ed. 1984, 14th ed. 1986, 15th ed. 1993, 16th ed. 1994, 17th ed. 1998; The Barbri Group; Thomson/BAR/BRI 18th ed. 2004)
Considerations Respecting Repeal of the "Sole Trader Act"--Code of Civil Procedure Sections 1811-1821 (Calif. Law Rev. Comm Doc. No. D, 2000) (Calif. Law Rev. Comm Doc. No. D 313)
Debt Collection from Married Persons in California (Calif. Law Rev. Comm. Doc. No. D, 2000) (Calif. Law Rev. Comm. Doc. No. D 313)
Community Property in the United States (Lupus Publications, 3rd ed. 1991, 4th ed. 1994, 5th ed. 1997) (loose-leaf format) (with Cynthia A. Samuel)
Sum & Substance of Wills and Succession (Josephson/Kluwer Legal Educational Centers, 1985; Herbert Legal Series 3rd ed. 1989) (with Monica Kivel Kalo)
Community Property in California: Cases, Statutes, Problems (Michie Co., 1980, 2d ed. 1988)
Community Property in the United States (Michie Co., 2nd ed. 1982) (with Cynthia A. Samuel)
Comments on Proposals to Legislatively Declare Enhanced Earning Capacity to be Community Property (1981) (California Law Review Communication Memo 81-78, Doc. F-610/611)
Joint Ownership: Marital and Nonmarital Property (California Continuing Education of the Bar, 1978) (with Robert A. Mills)
Community Property in the United States: A Comparative Study by Cases, Materials, and Problems (Bobbs-Merrill, 1975) (with William Q. de Funiak)

Articles & Essays

Reforming the Politics of Animal Research, 41 Journal of Medical Ethics 563-566 (2015) (with Lisa Hara Levin)
Recovery of "Intrinsic Value" Damages in Case of Negligently Killed Pet Dog, 17 North Carolina State Bar Journal 14-16 (Winter 2013) (with Calley Gerber)
Can Wrongful Death Damages Recovered by a Married Person Be Separate Property Under California Law?, 39 Pepperdine Law Review 865-918 (2012)
Some Issues Raised By Alaska's Recording Act, 27 Alaska Law Review 195-220 (2010)
Eclecticism in Methods for Resolving Tort and Contract Conflict of Laws: The United States and the European Union, 82 Tulane Law Review 2053 (2008)
Estate Planning to Provide for the Post-Death Care of Pets, in Animal Law and the Courts: A Reader 217-252 (Taimie L. Bryant et al. eds., 2008)
Do State Anti-Cruelty Laws Apply to Animals Used in Scientific Research?, 2007 (2007)
Broad Exemptions in Animal-Cruelty Statutes Unconstitutionally Deny Equal Protection of the Law, 70 Law and Contemporary Problems 255-324 (Winter 2007)
Punitive Damage Awards In Pet-Death Cases: How do the Ratio Rules of State Farm v. Campbell Apply?, 1 Journal of Animal Law & Ethics 19-62 (2006)
Citizen Standing to Enforce Anti-Cruelty Laws by Obtaining Injunctions: The North Carolina Experience, 11 Animal Law 39-68 (2005)
The Framework of Full Faith and Credit and Interstate Recognition of Same-Sex Marriage, 3 Ave Maria Law Review 393-481 (2005)
A New Speciality: Animal Law, N.C. State Bar Journal 12-15 (2002)
Choice of Law Problems Arising When Unmarried Cohabitants Change Domicile, 55 SMU Law Review 273 (2002)
The Legal Status of Nonhuman Animals, 8 Animal Law Review 1-76 (2002) (with others)
Codifying Interest Analysis in the Torts Chapter of a New Conflicts Restatement, 75 Indiana Law Journal 591 (2000)
Apportioning Business Profits Generated by Spousal Labor and Capital Owned Over Time by Shifting Financial Shares of the Separate and Community/Marital Estates, 31 Family Law Quarterly 63 (1997)
Eclecticism in Choice of Law: Hybrid Method or Mishmash?, 34 Mercer Law Review 645 (1997) (reprinted in 19 Conflict-of-Laws Anthology 23 (1997))
Judicial Overkill in Applying the Rule in Shelley's case, 73 Notre Dame Law Review 83 (1997)
Acquisitions With a Mix of Community and Separate Funds: Displacing California's Presumption of Gift by Recognizing Shared Ownership or a Right of Reimbursement, 31 Idaho Law Review 965 (1995)
1990 U.S.F.S.P.A. Amendment: No Bar to Recognition of Tenancy in Common Interests Created by Pre-McCarty Divorces That Fail to Divide Military Retirement Benefits, The, 29 Idaho Law Review (1993) (1992-1993)
Foreword: American Community Property Regimes, 56 Law and Contemporary Problems 1-5 (Spring 1993)
Calculating the Spousal Interests in "Mixed" Property Cases Under Wisconsin's Marital Property Act, 7 Wisconsin Bar Lawyers’ Marital Property Forum 17 (1990) (reprinted in 11 Wisconsin Journal of Family Law 118 (Oct. 1991)
Remembrances of William O. Douglas, 15 Journal of Supreme Court History 104-124 (1990) (with others)
Strategies for Strengthening the Case for Separate Property Classification of Assets Under Idaho Law, 26 Idaho Law Review 425 (1990)
Tricky Transmutation Law in California, Divorce Litigation (1990)
Applying New Law at Divorce to Preenactment Acquisitions: Must Prior Law Be "Rankly Unjust"? 1-2 (1989) (pts. 1-2)
Major Events in the Evolution of American Community Property Law and Their Import to Equitable Distribution States, 23 Family Law Quarterly 163 (1989)
Discharge in Bankruptcy of Awards of Money or Property at Divorce: Analyzing the Risk and Some Steps to Avoid It, Community Property Journal 1 (1988)
Repayment with Community Funds of Consumer Loans Secured by Separate Realty: Seeking the Appropriate Remedy, Community Property Journal 1 (1988)
Application of the "Item Theory" to Fungible Community Property Upon Death of a Spouse Exercising Testamentary Power, 1987 Community Property Journal 1 (1987)
Update on Terminable Interest Doctrine: Abolished in California; Adopted and Expanded in Arizona, Community Property Journal 1 (1987)
Texas' Hybrid Quasi-Community Property Scheme: Are the Lower Courts Ignoring Its Complexities?, Community Property Journal 1 (1987)
Misuse and Abuse of the Community Debt Concept in Texas, Community Property Journal 1 (1987)
Louisiana's Proposed "Hybrid" Quasi-Community Property Statute Could Cause Unfairness, Community Property Journal 1 (1986)
Conflict of Laws Problems in the Division of Marital Property, in Valuation & Distribution of Marital Property (John P. McCahey et al. eds., 1984)
Property and Support Rights of Unmarried Cohabitants: A Proposal for Creating a New Legal Status, 44 Louisiana Law Review 1677 (1984)
The Uniform Marital Property Act: Some Suggested Revisions for a Basically Sound Act, 21 Houston Law Review 679 (1984)
Community Property in the U.S. Supreme Court--Why Such a Hostile Reception?, Community Property Journal 93 (1983)
Reconsidering the Rules for Military Benefits, 4 Family Advocate 30-35, 40 (1983)
North Carolina's Tenancy by the Entirety Reform Legislation of 1982, 5 Campbell Law Review 1 (1982)
Quasi-Community "Property" Comes to Texas, 9 Community Property Journal 171 (1982)
Should Permanent Faculty Teach First-Year Legal Writing? A Debate, 32 Journal of Legal Education 413 (1982) (with others)
California Probate Code 229: Making Sense of a Badly Drafted Provision for Inheritance by a Community Property Decedent's Former In-Laws, Community Property Journal (1981) (with Wright)
Debt Collection from Married Californians: Problems Caused by Transmutations, Single-Spouse Management, and Invalid Marriage, 18 San Diego Law Review 143 (1981)
Justice Douglas and His Brethren: A Personal Recollection, 12 North Carolina Central Law Journal 412-433 (1981) (reviewing Bob Woodward and Scott Armstrong, The Brethren: Inside the Supreme Court (1979))
Justice Douglas and His Brethren: A Personal Recollection, Duke Docket (1980)
Government Grants to Education and Threats to Academic Freedom, in The William O. Douglas Inquiry Into the State of Individual Freedom 111-149 (Harry S. Ashmore ed., 1979)
Learning to Live with Hisquierdo, Community Property Journal (1979)
Community and Separate Interests in Pension and Social Security Benefits After Marriage of Brown and ERISA, 25 UCLA Law Review 417 (1978)
The Effect of the Adoption of Comparative Negligence on Community Property Law: Has So-Called Imputed Negligence Been Revived?, 28 Hastings Law Journal 1359 (1977)
Retroactivity of the 1975 California Community Property Reforms, 48 Southern California Law Review 977 (1975)
Wife's Divorce Award Subject to Avoidance by Trustee in Bankruptcy, Stanford Law Review 1158-1188 (1964)

Issues Edited

Animal Law and Policy, 70 Law and Contemporary Problems (No. 1, Winter 2007) (with Jeff Welty)
American Community Property Regimes, 56 Law and Contemporary Problems (No. 2, Spring 1993)

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

The Law, Morality, and Animals, Duke University Letters (January 26, 1983)
Book Reviews, Chapel Hill Newspaper (May 9, 1982, at 4) (reviewing James T. Friedman, The Divorce Handbook: Your Basic Guide to Divorce (1982))

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