Curriculum Vitae

William A. Reppy Jr.

Duke University School of Law
P.O. Box 90360
Durham, NC 27708-0360

Personal Data

Born March 14, 1941, Oxnard, California
Married to Juliann Tenney

Education

B.A., with great distinction, Stanford University, 1963 (in Communications and Journalism) (Class rank 6th of approximately 1900)
J.D., with great distinction, Stanford University, 1966 (Class rank 1st of 112)

College and Law School Activities and Honors

Phi Beta Kappa
Associate Editor, The Stanford Daily
President, Stanford chapter of Chi Psi fraternity
Order of the Coif
Recent Developments Editor, Stanford Law Review
Nathan Abbott Scholar Award

Employment

Law Clerk to Justice Raymond E. Peters, Supreme Court of California, 1966-1967.
Law Clerk to Justice William O. Douglas, Supreme Court of the United States, 1967-1968.
Associate attorney, Tuttle & Taylor, Los Angeles, Califiornia, 1968-1971.
Duke University Law School, Durham, North Carolina 1971-present (Full Professor of Law with tenure since 1975, Charles L.B. Lowndes Distinguished Professor since 1992).
Visiting Professorships: University of California (Boalt Hall), Hastings College of the Law, University of Washington, University of Michigan, University of North Carolina.

University Activities (since 1990)

President, Alaska Law Review, since 1991
Chairman, Faculty Elections Committee, Academic Council, 1988-present
Member, Academic Council, 1991-93
Member, Academic Council Hearing Committee, 1991-93
Member, Academic Council, 2002-present

Memberships and Appointments

Member, North Carolina General Statutes Commission, 1998-present
Consultant to State Bar of California Estate Planning, Trust and Probate Law Section, 1987-88
Consultant on community property to the California Law Revision Commission, 1979-1983, 1985-86, 1990-91
Consultant on Marital Property Law, Research Triangle Institute, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, 1984-86
Member, Condominium Statutes Drafting Committee, North Carolina General Statutes Commission, 1980-86
American Law Institute, 1977-present
Board of Editors, Community Property Journal, 1973-88
Board of Editors, Equitable Distribution Reporter, 1986-1990.
Board of Editors, Animal Law Journal, 1994-present

Bar Admissions

California (1966)
North Carolina (1971)
United States Supreme Court (1971)

Publications

Books, Parts of Books, and Pamphlets

Community Property in the United States (1975)
Community Property in California (1980, with 1983 and 1985 supps.)
Community Property in California (2d ed. 1988)
Community Property in the United States (2d ed. 1982, 3d ed. 1991, 4th ed. 1994, 5th ed. 1998, 6th ed. 2004) (with C. Samuel)
Texas Matrimonial Property Law (1983, 2d ed. 1994, 3rd ed. 1996, 4th ed. 1999, 5th ed. 2002, 6th ed. 2007) (with J. McKnight)
Community Property -- Gilbert Law Summaries (11 editions, most recently 2006)
Government Grants to Education and Threats to Academic Freedom, in H. Ashmore, ed., the William O. Douglas Inquiry Into the State of Individual Freedom 111 (1979)
Joint Ownership: Marital and Nonmarital Property -- California Continuing Education of the Bar Materials (1978) (with R. Mills)
Conflict of Laws Problems in the Division of Marital Property in Valuation and Distribution of Marital Property (Matthew-Bender 1984 and 1987)
The Sum and Substance of Wills (3 editions, most recently 1989) (with M. Kalo)
Property and Support Rights of Unmarried Cohabitants in A Property Anthology (R. Chused, ed. 1993) reprinted from 74 La. L. Rev. 1677 (1984)
Estate Planning for Pets, Animal Law and the Courts (Taimie L. Bryant, Rebecca J. Huss, David N. Cassuto, ed. 2008)

Articles and Monographs

Retroactivity of the 1975 California Community Property Reforms, 48 So. Cal. L. Rev. 977 (1975)
The Effect of the Adoption of Comparative Negligence on Community Property Law: Has So-Called Imputed Negligence Been Revived?, 28 Hastings L.J. 1359 (1977)
Community and Separate Interests in Pensions and Social Security Benefits After Marriage of Brown and ERISA, 25 U.C.L.A. L. Rev. 417 (1978)
Learning to Live With Hisquierdo, 6 Com. Prop. J. 5 (1979)
Considerations Respecting Repeal of the "Sole Trader Act" -- Code of Civil Procedure Sections 1811-1821 (Calif. Law Revision Com. Doc. No. D 313, part A, 1980)
Debt Collections From Married Californians: Problems Caused by Transmutations, Single-Spouse Management, and Invalid Marriage, 18 San Diego L. Rev. 143 (1981)
California Probate Code � 229: Making Sense of a Badly Drafted Provision for Inheritance by a Community Property Decedent's Former In-Laws, 8 Com. Prop. J. 107 (1982) (with Wright)
Comments on Proposals to Legislatively Declare Enhanced Earning Capacity To Be Community Property (Calif. Law Revision Com. Doc. Memo 81-78, Doc. No. F-610-611) (1981)
Quasi-Community Property Comes to Texas, 9 Com. Prop. J. 171 (1982)
Should Permanent Faculty Teach First-Year Legal Writing?, 32 J. Legal Ed. 413 (1982) (with Pedrick and Hines)
North Carolina's Tenancy by the Entirety Reform Legislation of 1982, 5 Campbell L. Rev. 1 (1982)
Eclecticism inLaw: Hybrid Method or Mishmash?, 34 Mercer L. Rev. 645 (1983)
Reconsidering the Rules for Military Benefits, 5 A.B.A. Fam. Advocate No. 4, at 30 (Spring 1983)
The Law, Morality and Animals, Duke Letters (No. 43, Jan. 1983)
Community Property in the United States Supreme Court -- Why Such a Hostile Reception?, 10 Com. Prop. J. 93 (1983)
Property and Support Rights of Unmarried Cohabitants: A Proposal for Creating a New Legal Status, 44 La. L. Rev. 1677 (1984)
The Uniform Marital Property Act: Some Suggested Revisions for a Basically Sound Act, 21 Houston L. Rev. 679 (1984)
Louisiana's Proposed Quasi-Community Hybrid Statute: No Logic for the Double Dipping, 13 Com. Prop. J. No. 3, p. 1 (1986).
Abuse and Misuse in Texas of the "Community Debt" Concept, 13 Com. Prop. J. No. 4, p. 1 (1986)
Texas' Hybrid Quasi-Community Property Scheme: Are the Lower Courts Ignoring Its Complexities? 14 Com. Prop. J. No. 1, p. 1 (1987)
Retroactive Application to Pre-Enactment Acquisitions of Statutes Providing for Division at Divorce of Items of Separate Property: Avoiding Buol and Fabian, Calif. Law Rev. Comm'n Study No. F-603 (1986)
Update on the Terminable Interest Doctrine: Abolished in California; Adopted and Expanded in Arizona, 14 Com. Prop. J. No. 2, p. 1 (1987)
Application of the "Item Theory" to Fungible Community Property Upon Death of a Spouse Exercising Testamentary Power, 14 Com. Prop. J. No. 3, p. 1 (1987)
Repayment With Community Funds of Consumer Loans Secured by Separate Realty: Seeking the Appropriate Remedy, 14 Com. Prop. J. No. 4, p. 1 (1988)
Discharge in Bankruptcy of Awards of Money or Property at Divorce: Analyzing the Risk and Some Steps to Avoid It, 15 Com. Prop. J. No. 2, p. 1 (1988)
Applying New Law to Pre-Enactment Acquisitions -- Must Prior Law Be "Rankly Unjust"? (Part One), 15 Com. Prop. J. No. 3, p. 1 (1988), (Part Two), 15 Com. Prop. J. No. 4, p. 1 (1989)
Major Events in the Evolution of American Community Property Law and Their Import to Equitable Distribution States, 23 Fam. L. Q. 163 (1989)
Strategies for Strengthening the Case for Separate Property Classification of Assets Under Idaho Law, 26 Idaho Law Rev. 425 (1989-90)
Calculating the Spousal Interests in "Mixed" Property Cases Under Wisconsin's Marital Property Act, 7 Wisc. Lawyers Marital Prop. Forum 17 (1990), reprinted in 11 Wis. J. of Fam. Law 118 (Oct. 1991)
Remembrances of William O. Douglas, 1990 Journal of Supreme Court History 104
Tricky Transmutation Law in California, 2 Divorce Litigation No. 8, p. 1 (Community Property Alert) (1990)
Foreword: American Community Property Regimes, Law & Contemp. Probs., Spring 1993, at 1.
The 1990 USFSPA Amendment: No Bar to Recognition of Tenancy in Common Interests Created by pre-McCarty Divorces That Fail to Divide Military Retired Pay, 29 Idaho L. Rev. 941 (1993)
When Does Federal Law Trump State Law? Does A Broadly Worded Savings Clause Permit State Suits That Subvert the Goals of a Federal Statute? ABA Preview Feb. 10, 1995 (No. 5 at p. 234)
Acquisitions With a Mix of Community and Separate Funds: Displacing California's Presumption of Gift by Recognition of Shared Ownership or Right of Reimbursement, 31 Idaho L. Rev. 965 (1995)
Apportioning Business Profits Generated by Spousal Labor and Capital Owned Over Time by Shifting Fractional Shares of Separate and Community/Marital Estates, 31 Fam. L.Q. 63 (Spring 1997)
Judicial Overkill in Applying the Rule in Shelley's Case, 73 Notre Dame L. Rev. 83 (1997)
Codifying Interest Analysis in the Torts Chapter of a New Conflicts Restatement, 38 Ind. L.J. 593 (2000)
Choice of Law Problems Arising When Unmarried Cohabitants Change Domicile, 55 SMU Law Review (2002), pp. 273-323.
A New Specialty: Animal Law, 7 North Carolina State Bar Journal (2002), pp. 12-15.
Legal Status of Nonhuman Animals, 8 Animal Law (2002), pp. 1-76
Citizen Standing to Enforce Anti-Cruelty Laws By Obtaining Injunctions: The North Carolina Experience, 11 Animal Law (2005), pp. 39-68
The Framework of Full Faith & Credit and Interstate Recognition of Same-Sex Marriages, 3 Ave Maria L. Rev. 393 (2005)
Broad Exemptions in Animal-Cruelty Statutes Unconstitutionally Deny Equal Protection of the Law, 70 Law & Contemp. Prob. 255 (2007)
Eclecticism in Methods for Resolving Tort and Contract Conflict of Laws: The United States and the European Union, 48 Tulane L. Rev. 1 (2008).

Issues Edited

American Community Property Regimes, 56 Law & Contemporary Problems (Spring, 1993) (Special editor)
Animal Law and Policy, 70 Law & Contemporary Problems (Winter 2007) (Special editor with Jeff Welty)

Book Reviews

Justice Douglas and His Brethren: A Personal Recollection (Woodward and Armstrong, The Brethren: Inside the Supreme Court), 12 N.C. Central L. Rev. 412 (1981)
Friedman, The Divorce Handbook, Chapel Hill Newspaper, May 9, 1982