Claiming a Promised Inheritance

Alexandra Braun holds the Lord President Reid Chair in Law at the University of Edinburgh. Professor Braun is as a Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute of European and Comparative Law in Oxford and an Honorary Research Fellow at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. She is the Series Editor of the Edinburgh Studies in Law series published by Edinburgh University Press.Professor Braun has broad research interests in comparative law and legal history. Her current research focuses primarily on the fields of succession law and the law of trusts. Professor Braun is also interested in the impact of the transfer of wealth on questions of intergenerational equality and the cultural history of inheritance. Other interests include legal education, the study of the intellectual history of the law, and the development of various forms of legal scholarship and its interaction with, and impact upon, judicial decision-making.

• Introduction Part I - Introducing the promisee's perspective 1: The social context 2: The legal context Part II - Obtaining what was promised 3: Establishing the existence of a contract 4: Establishing detrimental reliance on the promise 5: Establishing the moral duty of a promisor to provide for the promisee 6: Establishing the promisor's enrichment in Canadian law Part III - Obtaining less than what was promised 7: Establishing a claim under the New Zealand Law Reform (Testamentary Promises) Act 1949 8: Implying an employment relationship 9: Recovering the value of the enrichment 10: Obtaining deferred wages for up to ten years 11: Obtaining compensation on the basis of § 2075a BGB and § 677 ABGB Concluding reflections Bibliography

With her book, Professor Braun has opened up previously unexplored fields. At the same time, through her extremely thorough, intelligent and both historically deep and socially sensitive analyses, she sets methodological standards of comparative research today.