Comparative Succession Law
Volume II: Intestate Succession
Edited by Kenneth Reid, Marius de Waal, and Reinhard Zimmermann
Author Information
Edited by Kenneth Reid, Professor of Scots Law, University of Edinburgh, Marius de Waal, Professor of Private Law, Stellenbosch University, and Reinhard Zimmermann, Director of the Max Planck Institute for Foreign Private and Private International Law, Hamburg, Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Law
A qualified solicitor, Kenneth Reid has taught at the University of Edinburgh since 1980. He was appointed to the Chair of Property Law in 1994 and to the Chair of Scots Law in 2008. From 1995 to 2005 he served as a Scottish Law Commissioner, where he was responsible for a major programme of reform of land law, which has now been implemented by legislation.
Marius de Waal is Professor of Private Law at the University of Stellenbosch. His main fields of interest are the law of succession and the law of trusts, on which he has written a number of textbooks, including co-authoring the fifth edition of Honoré's South African Law of Trusts (Juta 2002, with Edwin Cameron, Basil Wunsh and Peter Solomon).
Reinhard Zimmermann is a Director of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg and is Chairman of the Social Sciences, Arts, and Humanities Division of the Max Planck Society. He is the author of numerous books on comparative law and legal history, including The Law of Obligations (OUP, 1996) and The New German Law of Obligations (OUP, 2005).
Contributors:
Alexandra Braun is an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow and Tutor in Law at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford.
Sergio Cámara Lapuente is Professor of Private Law at the University of La Rioja.
Marius J de Waal is Professor of Private Law at the University of Stellenbosch.
Roger Kerridge is Emeritus Professor of Law at the University of Bristol.
Wilbert D Kolkman is Professor of Private Law and Notarial Law at the University of Groningen.
Nicola Peart is Professor of Law at the University of Otago.
Cécile Pérès is Professor of Law at the Université Panthéon-Assas.
Kenneth G C Reid is Professor of Scots Law at the University of Edinburgh.
Thomas Rüfner is Professor of Private Law and Roman Law at the University of Trier, and Judge at the Regional Appeal Court of Koblenz..
Ronald J Scalise, Jr, is Vice Dean for Academic Affairs and A D Freeman Professor of Civil Law at the Tulane Law School, New Orleans.
Jens M Scherpe is a Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Cambridge, and Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.
Jan Peter Schmidt is a Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Hamburg.
Lionel Smith is the Sir William C Macdonald Professor at McGill University, Montreal, and Professor of Private Law at King's College London.
Lajos Vékás is Emeritus Professor of Private Law and Private International Law at the Eötvös Lorand University, Budapest.
Prue Vines is Professor of Law at the University of New South Wales.
Christiane Wendehorst is Professor of Private Law at the University of Vienna.
Nadjma Yassari is a Senior Research Fellow and Max Planck Research Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Hamburg.
Reinhard Zimmermann is Director at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Hamburg, and Professor of Private Law, Roman Law, and Comparative Legal History at the University of Regensburg.
Fryderyk Zoll is Professor of Private Law at the Jagiellonian University, Cracow, and Professor at the University of Osnabrück.
