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Kenneth G C Reid taught law at the University of Edinburgh from 1980 until 2019. 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, subsequently implemented by legislation. His many publications focus on property law, the law of succession, trusts law, legal history, and comparative law. Jan Peter Schmidt is a Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg and head of its Centre for the Application of Foreign Law. He is a part-time lecturer at the University of Hamburg and the Bucerius Law School Hamburg. He has published widely on matters of contract, family, and notably succession (usually from a comparative or a private international law angle). Reinhard Zimmermann was Director at the Max Planck Institute of Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg from 2002 to 2022. He is an Affiliate Professor at the Bucerius Law School and an Honorary Professor at the University of Edinburgh. He has published widely on the law of obligations and the law of succession in a historical and comparative perspective, on the relationship between the English common law and continental civil law, mixed legal systems (in particular Scotland and South Africa), and the harmonization of European private Law.

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