The Law Applicable to Succession, Between Unity and Splitting of the Relevant Legal Regime

Abstract The author comments on a recent judgment by the Corte di Cassazione ( Sezioni Unite Civili ) touching upon particularly significant issues of private international law in matters succession. A central issue under review lies role renvoi as an instrument coordination between national conflict-of-laws systems. This is critical succession matters, cases where choice-of-law rules countries concerned are inspired opposite systems unity rather than splitting Alongside , touches other important law, such characterization and requirements for valid optio legis deceased. As notes, while case, due to temporal reasons, was decided pursuant Italian succession, comparable results would have probably been reached based embodied European Succession Regulation No. 650/2012.