Book review of “The Law of Succession: Testamentary Freedom. European Perspectives” edited by M. Anderson and E. Arroyo i Amayuelas (Europa Law Publishing, 2011)

The work entitled “The Law of Succession: Testamentary Freedom. European Perspectives”, edited by M. Anderson and E. Arroyo i Amayuelas, and published as part of the “European Studies in Private Law” series by Europa Law Publishing (Groningen, The Netherlands, 2011, ISBN 978-90-8952-087-6, price 62 euros, pp. I-336), represents a first-class example of this growing interest in the comparative and international law of succession. The volume includes the proceedings of an international conference on the freedom of testation held in Barcelona in April 2010, as well as some additional contributions covering the English common law, Eastern European countries and Scandinavia.