Edited by Kenneth G C Reid, Professor of Scots Law, University of Edinburgh, Marius J de Waal, Professor of Private Law, University of Stellenbosch, and Reinhard Zimmermann, Director of the Max Planck Institute for Foreign Private and Private International Law, Hamburg
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).
Contributors:
Alexandra Braun, Fellow and Tutor in Law at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford
Sergio Cámara Lapuente, Professor of Private Law, University of La Rioja
Marius J de Waal, Professor of Private Law, Faculty of Law, University of Stellenbosch
Nils Jansen, Professor of Roman Law, Legal History, German and European Private Law at the Institute for Legal History, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster
Roger Kerridge, Emeritus Professor of Law, University of Bristol
Wilbert D Kolkman, Professor of Private Law and Notarial Law, University of Groningen
Nicola Peart, Professor of Law, University of Otago
Walter Pintens, Professor of Private Law, Catholic University, Leuven
Kenneth G C Reid, Professor of Scots Law, University of Edinburgh
Thomas Rüfner, Professor of Private Law and Roman Law, University of Trier, and Judge at the Regional Appeal Court of Koblenz
Ronald J Scalise Jr, Professor of Civil Law, Tulane Law School, New Orleans
Jan Peter Schmidt, Senior Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Hamburg
Lajos Vékás, Emeritus Professor of Private Law and Private International Law, Eötvös Lorand University, Budapest
Christiane C Wendehorst, Professor of Private Law, University of Vienna
Nadjma Yassari, Senior Research Fellow and Max Planck Research Group Leader, Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Hamburg
Reinhard Zimmermann, Director of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Hamburg, and Professor of Private Law, Roman Law, and Comparative Legal History, University of Regensburg
Frederyk Zoll, Professor of the Private Law, Jagiellonian University in Cracow and DFG-Mercator Professor, University of Osnabrück.
