Shaping the Status of Heirs by Contractual Components under the Polish and German Inheritance Law

Wojciech Banczyk, Ph.D. in law, is assistant at the Chair of Civil Law of the Jagiellonian University (UJ) in Kraków, director of the American Law Program of the Catholic University of America (Washington D.C.) and UJ and attorney at law.Dr. Malgorzata Lubelska-Sazanów, LL.M. (University of California, Davis, USA) studied at University of Vienna, University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland, and University of Osnabrück.PhD Katarzyna Poludniak-Gierz is an assistant at the Civil Law Department, Faculty of Law and Administration, Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland, and at the European Legal Studies Institute, University of Osnabrück.Dr Bartosz Kucia is assistant professor at the Faculty of Law and Administration at the University of Silesia in Katowice.Dr Elwira Macierzynska-Franaszczyk, MBA, is lawyer and assistant professor at the Civil Law Department at Kozminski University in Warsaw and research assistant at the European Legal Studies Institute at the University of Osnabrück.Prof dr Ewa Rott-Pietrzyk works at the Institute of Legal Sciences, Faculty of Law and Administration at the University of Silesia in Katowice.

Prof. Dr. Fryderyk Zoll ist am European Legal Studies Institute (ELSI) der Universität Osnabrück tätig.

Dr Bartosz Kucia is assistant professor at the Faculty of Law and Administration at the University of Silesia in Katowice.Dr Elwira Macierzynska-Franaszczyk, MBA, is lawyer and assistant professor at the Civil Law Department at Kozminski University in Warsaw and research assistant at the European Legal Studies Institute at the University of Osnabrück.Prof dr Ewa Rott-Pietrzyk works at the Institute of Legal Sciences, Faculty of Law and Administration at the University of Silesia in Katowice.

The contributions focus on succession and obligation law norms shaping the legal status of an heir and their comparison within Polish and German law systems. They analyse the impact of the instruments of contract law on the status of an heir. The adopted methodology combining the internal-national and external-comparative perspective allows the authors to present "similarities in dissimilarities" within institutions of the German and Polish succession law. The broad analyses of legal doctrine and jurisprudence can serve as a source of knowledge and points of reference for legal practitioners, courts and legislators.

The book analyses the impact of the instruments of contract law on the status of an heir. The adopted methodology combining the internal-national and external-comparative perspective allows the authors to present "similarities in dissimilarities" within institutions of the German and Polish succession law. The broad analyses of legal doctrine and jurisprudence can serve as a source of knowledge and points of reference for legal practitioners, courts and legislators.An in-deep comparative analysis of German and Polish inheritance law

The book analyses the impact of the instruments of contract law on the status of an heir. The adopted methodology combining the internal-national and external-comparative perspective allows the authors to present "similarities in dissimilarities" within institutions of the German and Polish succession law. The broad analyses of legal doctrine and jurisprudence can serve as a source of knowledge and points of reference for legal practitioners, courts and legislators.