ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE: March 15th, 2023

Call for papers pdf is available in ENG and PT

The International Conference “Estate, Succession and Autonomy: New Assets and New Trends" and 5th International Congress ADFAS 2023 will be hosted in 2023, between April 13rd and 14th, at the Porto School of Law of Universidade Católica Portuguesa, in Porto, Portugal.

We invite members at all stages of their scientific career, from advanced graduate students to senior scientists, to present their work at the Conference.

Main Topics:

  • Autonomy of will and mortis causa transmission of property
  • Current challenges in Family Law and its projection in Succession Law
  • Taxation aspects of access to goods, management and transmission of property
  • Trust
  • Effective beneficiaries
  • Productive goods, business goods, corporate property
  • Common goods, collective goods
  • Co-ownership
  • Autonomous estate, separate estate, collective estate and protected estate
  • Social function of property
  • Succession contract
  • Digital assets/ digital transformation and digital platforms
  • Conflict Resolution and Digital Justice
  • Electronic transferals and estate transmission
  • Artificial intelligence and electronic personality
  • Post mortem protection of personality
  • Limits to the exercise of rights
  • Succession planning 
  • Family businesses and succession in leadership
  • Family foundations
  • Cross border successions

Abstract Submission Guidelines

If you would like to submit an abstract to the Conference, you must send all the information needed by email to esaconference.porto@ucp.pt .

Your submission should comprise the following information:

  • Title;
  • Author(s)
  • Abstract with 250/300 Words (for an oral presentation of approximately 15 minutes, followed by time for discussion.

Each abstract will be evaluated by two independent reviewers who will be asked to evaluate them in accordance with different pre-set parameters.

English is the working language of the Conference (presentations and abstracts must be in English).

Authors will be informed by March 20th, 2023, by the latest, whether they have been selected for the conference.

ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE: March 15th, 2023

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