Nordic Inheritance Law through the Ages

Nordic Inheritance Law through the Ages - Spaces of Action and Legal Strategies explores the significance of inheritance law from medieval times to the present through topical and in-depth studies that bring life to historical and contemporary inheritance practices. The contributions cover three themes: status of persons and options in the process of property devolution; wills, gift-giving and legal disputes as means to shape the working of the law; processes of inheritance legislation. The authors focus on instances where legal strategies of various actors particularly reveal inheritance law as a contested and yet constrained space of action, and somewhat surprisingly show similar solutions to family law issues dealt with in other Western European countries. Contributors are: Simone Abram, Gitte Meldgaard Abrahamsen, Per Andersen, Agnes S. Arnorsdottir, John Asland, Knut Dorum, Thomas Eeg, Ian Peter Grohse, Marianne Holdgaard, Astrid Mellem Johnsen, Mar Jonsson, Mia Korpiola, Gabriela Bjarne Larsson, Au ur Magnusdottir, Bodil Selmer, Helle I. M. Sigh, and Miriam Tveit.