L. Bindschedler, Rudolf Keywords: Property | Diplomatic protection | Public international law | Mots clefs: Propriété | Protection de nationaux à l étranger | Droit international public | ABSTRACT Rudolf Bindschedler says in 1956 that the expropriation of private property is certainly nothing new. It is not today that the State appropriates property previously owned by individuals, including entire enterprises or even branches of industrial facility. The frequent absence or inadequacy of the allowances granted to the intere…

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…

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…