The International Academy of Estate and Trust Laws (IAETL) meets each May to spend a week of intensive engagement with issues of direct and immediate concern to estate and trusts lawyers. More than merely an assembly of commentators and interpreters, the IAETL is a prestigious body that affects real change in courts, law reform commissions, and governmental agencies. Its membershipincluding solicitors, barristers, notaires, judges, and scholars, all experts in trusts, estates, and inheritance law, and/or tax lawhighlight the contrasts and comparisons between the pertinent laws of civil and...