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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
  • Health good

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) (with C. Samuel)
  • Texas Matrimonial Property Law (1983, 2d ed. 1994) (with J. McKnight)
  • Community Property -- Gilbert Law Summaries (8 editions, most recently 1999)
  • 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)

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.

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