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…

E. Von Overbec, Alfred Keywords: Estate | Private international law | Unification of law | Mots clefs: Successions | Droit international privé | Unification du droit | ABSTRACT Alfred von Overbeck begins his course with some general observations on the unification of private international law, and then on the private international law of succession by studying the prospects for the unification of substantive conflict rules. Finally, he examines an aspect of the law of Succession, which has already been the subject of an international convention: the form of wills. Alfred von Overbec…