Claiming a Promised Inheritance: A Comparative Study

Renowned scholar of comparative private law Alexandra Braun examines the law of testamentary promises, details what happens when these promises are broken, and compares how and when the interests of beneficiaries of testamentary promises are protected across a number of legal systems.


Author: Alexandra Braun
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 12/08/2022
Pages: 416
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.70lbs
Size: 8.80h x 6.60w x 1.70d
ISBN: 9780198757252

About the Author

Alexandra Braun, Lord President Reid Chair in Law, University of Edinburgh

Alexandra Braun Alexandra Braun holds the Lord President Reid Chair in Law at the University of Edinburgh. Professor Braun is as a Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute of European and Comparative Law in Oxford and an Honorary Research Fellow at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. She is the Series
Editor of the Edinburgh Studies in Law series published by Edinburgh University Press.

Professor Braun has broad research interests in comparative law and legal history. Her current research focuses primarily on the fields of succession law and the law of trusts. Professor Braun is also interested in the impact of the transfer of wealth on questions of intergenerational equality and
the cultural history of inheritance. Other interests include legal education, the study of the intellectual history of the law, and the development of various forms of legal scholarship and its interaction with, and impact upon, judicial decision-making.