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Kristine S. Knaplund, J.D.
Professor of Law

Office: School of Law (SOL)
E-mail: kris.knaplund

  • J.D., University of California, Davis, 1977
  • B.A., Oberlin College, 1974
Professor Kristine S. Knaplund began her career in law teaching in 1983 at UCLA Law School, where she was honored with the law school's Rutter Award for Excellence in Teaching in 1991, the University-wide Harriet and Charles Luckman Distinguished Teaching Award in 1995, and the 1997 graduating class' Professor of the Year Award. She joined the faculty of Pepperdine University School of Law in 2002, and teaches Property, Wills and Trusts, Advanced Wills and Trusts, and the Bioethics Seminar. In 2006 she received the 1L Professor of the Year Award.

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Selected Works:
  • The Right of Privacy and America's Aging Population, 86 DENVER L. REV. 439 (2009).
  • The Evolution of Women's Rights in Inheritance, 19 HASTINGS WOMEN'S L.J. 3 (2008).
  • Legal Issues of Maternity and Inheritance for the Biotech Child of the 21st Century, 43 REAL PROP. TR. & EST. L.J. 393 (2008) (symposium issue).
  • Grandparents Raising Grandchildren and the Implications for Inheritance, 48 ARIZ. L. REV. 1 (2006).
  • Equal Protection, Postmortem Conception, and Intestacy, 53 U. KAN. L. REV. 627 (2005).
  • Postmortem Conception and a Father's Last Will, 46 ARIZ. L. REV. 91 (2004).
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