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Choice Of Law And Succession To Wealth: A Critical Analysis Of The Ramifications Of The Hague Convention On Succession To Decedents' Estates, Jeffrey Schoenblum
Choice Of Law And Succession To Wealth: A Critical Analysis Of The Ramifications Of The Hague Convention On Succession To Decedents' Estates, Jeffrey Schoenblum
Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications
The Hague Convention on the Law Applicable to Succession to the Estates of Deceased Persons' is an exceptionally complex document with the avowed purpose of radically altering the choice of law rules in the succession field that have traditionally guided all common law jurisdictions as well as many civil law regimes. To date, the conflicts revolution that has engulfed other fields of law such as contracts and torts has barely intruded into the realm of property and succession law. In large part, this has been attributable to the nearly absolute adherence of judges and legislators to the relatively simple, straightforward …