The EU Succession Regulation: A Commentary - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1107127300 ISBN 13: 9781107127302

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2017

Synopsis

The European Succession Regulation is a landmark in the field of EU private international law. It unifies the conflicts of laws, jurisdiction and recognition of foreign judgments and some other legal instruments in the field of succession and wills. This volume provides an article-by-article commentary on the individual provisions of the Regulation, introduced by an overview of its general framework and underlying principles. As a reference tool for the Regulation, this book is intended to promote a high standard of interpretation and application. With contributions from leading scholars in the field, it uses a comparative approach in its analysis to enrich the academic debate and highlight the problems likely to arise in the practical application of the Regulation.

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Book Description:

Written by leading experts in the field, this book offers a detailed article-by-article analysis of the European Succession Regulation. It provides an authoritative guide to judges, notaries, holders of public records and lawyers in private practice.

About the Author:

Alfonso-Luis Calvo Caravaca studied law at the University of Murcia (LLM, Extraordinary Award, 1976) and at the University of Bologna (PhD, Vittorio Emanuele II Award, 1978). He has been Professor of Private International Law at the University Carlos III of Madrid since 1992. He was formerly Professor of Private International law at the University Autónoma of Madrid and at the University of Murcia, and visiting professor at São Paulo State University (1993), at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México, D.F. (2001), and at the School of Law of the University of Bologna (2012). Since 2009 he has been co-director of Cuadernos de Derecho Transnacional (CDT), which is published by the University Carlos III in Madrid, and, since 2005, he has been a Permanent Member of the General Codification Commission (Civil section) at the Spanish Ministry of Justice. He is a member of Hamburger Freunde des Max Planck Institut für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht since 1988, a Fellow of the European Law Institute since 2012 and a titular Member of the International Academy of Comparative Law (IACL) since 2015. He is author, co-author, editor or co-editor of about three hundred publications in the fields of private international law, EU antitrust law and international commercial law, notable of which include Derecho Internacional Privado, Volume 1 and Derecho Internacional Privado, Volume 2 (both with Javier Carrascosa González), now in their 15th edition.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1107127300
• ISBN 13: 9781107127302
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 932
• Editor: Calvo Caravaca Alfonso-Luis, Davì Angelo, Mansel Heinz-Peter