The Digital Afterlife: Digital Succession and Private International Law

On 19 November 2025, from 2 to 3 pm UK time, the Aberdeen Centre for Private International Law and Transnational Governance will host a webinar featuring Kirsten Henckel (University of Groningen) on The Digital Afterlife: Digital succession and private international law.

The webinar will explore how digitalisation has transformed property and inheritance, raising new challenges for the legal treatment of digital assets such as social media accounts, cryptocurrencies and cloud-based content.

Kirsten Henckel will explore the emerging field of digital succession from a private international law perspective, focusing on key cross-border issues of jurisdiction, applicable law and enforcement of rights.

Registration is available here; for further information: michiel.poesen@abdn.ac.uk.