Talpis, Jeffrey Keywords: Property | Estate | Law of succession | Law of property | Conflict of laws | Private international law | Common law | Civil law countries | Mots clefs: ABSTRACT The Professor first talks about the various instruments used to transfer property at death by succession, as well as the main characteristics and categories of successions. In a second part, is discussed the law used in known succession substitutes, as well as other new approaches used. Third, the choice of law rules is reviewed, in addition to…

Bonomi, Andrea Keywords: Law of succession | Private international law | Mots clefs: Droit des successions | Droit international privé | ABSTRACT Mr. Bonomi notes that the law of international succession is a rich and complex subject. He deals with issues of classical private international law. These issues have already been the subject of numerous writings by scholars, but also the evolution of national systems and European perspectives justifying further study of the problems according to Professor Bonomi. As a par…

Li, Haopei Keywords: Law of succession | Private international law | Mots clefs: Droit des successions | Droit international privé | ABSTRACT Haopei Li, Professor at Peking University, devotes his course to recent developments in the field of conflict of laws of Succession. The author emphasizes in the introduction of his course that the legal problems raised by international successions are always complicated. This is due to the fact that the substantive law of Successions in several countries and the different syst…

F. Scoles, Eugene Keywords: Property | Law of succession | Marital property | Mots clefs: Propriété | Droit des successions | Régime des biens des époux | ABSTRACT In this course, Eugene Scoles, Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, focuses on choice of laws regarding transactions concerning family patrimony. In today’s society, people of different nationalities and place of residences marry, move, transact in several countries, have children, get divorced, remarry, and die in connection with differe…

Ferid, Murad Keywords: Law of succession | Private international law | Mots clefs: Droit des successions | Droit international privé | ABSTRACT Murad Ferid, Emeritus Professor at the Faculty of law in Munich, points out in the beginning of his course that international successions are of particular interest today: it is no longer just that of the legendary “rich uncle or the phthisic millionaire of the French Riviera, but also that of migrant workers who have bank accounts in the host country. The author examines the…

Katičić, Natko Keywords: Yugoslavia | Family law | Private international law | Law of succession | Mots clefs: Yougoslavie | Droit de la famille | Droit international privé | Droit des successions | ABSTRACT Natko Katicic writes in the introduction to his course that starting from abstraction for achieving the substance or studying the substance for subjecting the substance to a general system is a reverse operation, but which leads to the same study and same recognition. The author studies in this course the Private Internation…

Lewald, Hans Keywords: Law of succession | Private international law | Mots clefs: Droit des successions | Droit international privé | ABSTRACT In his course devoted to some Issues of International Law of Successions, Hans Lewald mainly examines the problems related to the devolution of inheritance. The author studies the issue of the determination of the law of succession, gives an overview of comparative legislation, and then presents the positive conflict and the negative conflict. The author also focuses on the i…