Table of Contents

Introduction
1: Thomas Rüfner: Testamentary Formalities in Roman Law
2: Nils Jansen: Testamentary Formalities in Early Modern Europe
3: Walter Pintens: Testamentary Formalities in France and Belgium
4: Sergio Cámara Lapuente: Testamentary Formalities in Spain
5: Jan Peter Schmidt: Testamentary Formalities in Latin America with particular reference to Brazil
6: Alexandra Braun: Testamentary Formalities in Italy
7: Wilbert D Kolkman: Testamentary Formalities in the Netherlands
8: Reinhard Zimmermann: Testamentary Formalities in Germany
9: Christiane C Wendehorst: Testamentary Formalities in Austria
10: Lajos Vékás: Testamentary Formalities in Hungary
11: Frederyk Zoll: Testamentary Formalities in Poland
12: Nadjma Yassari: Testamentary Formalities in Islamic Law and their Reception in the Modern Laws of Islamic Countries
13: Roger Kerridge: Testamentary Formalities in England and Wales
14: Nicola Peart: Testamentary Formalities in Australia and New Zealand
15: Ronald J Scalise Jr: Testamentary Formalities in the United States of America
16: Marius J de Waal: Testamentary Formalities in South Africa
17: Kenneth G C Reid: Testamentary Formalities in Scotland
18: Kenneth G C Reid, Marius J de Waal, and Reinhard Zimmermann: Testamentary Formalities in Historical and Comparative Perspective

About the Author

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 was 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 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).