Episode 3: "The Wills of Winter"

Learned Hands: The Official Podcast of the Westerosi Bar Association

In this episode of Learned Hands, the Official Podcast of the Westerosi Bar Association, Maester Merry & Clint from Laws of Ice and Fire ask: Is Robb Stark’s will legally enforceable?

Our analysis this week includes:

• Extensive debate between Merry & Clint arguing opposite sides of this thorny question!
• We decide what happens if Bran & Rickon show up!
• The unveiling of Catelyn Stark’s New Zealand-y accent!
• We decide what happens if Jeyne is knocked up!
• Clint gasses on about social contract theory… AGAIN!
• Sober discussion of fee entail, per stirpes, primogeniture, and feudal inheritance!
• We also say the word “intestate” a lot and mostly manage not to giggle!

This was our longest and most fun episode yet. Don’t miss it!

Supplemental reading:

-For a great essay discussing how Martin models his feudalism after the kind of feudalism present in England during the War of the Roses, check out Stephan Sasse’s “A Westerosi Study in Feudalism” at Tower of the Hand.

-GRRM’s November 2, 1999 lengthy digression on the Hornwood Inheritance, feudal politics, and law.

-GRRM’s November 30, 2012 NotABlog confirming that the WOIAF app is canon.

-Clint’s 2019 essay on Northern Sovereignty, “Why Shouldn’t We Rule Ourselves Again?”

Intro & Outro music courtesy Sid Luscious & The Pants. None of this should be construed as legal advice OBVIOUSLY.

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