Conference on Succession Regulation (Kraków, 15-16 October 2026)

On 15 and 16 October 2026 the EUSuccess Project will host a conference entitled EU Succession Regulation: First Decade of Application, Strengths, Challenges, Future Outlooks taking place at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków (Poland). 

The event will bring together academics and practitioners to discuss functioning in practice of the Succession Regulation in the EU Member States within its first decade of its application.

The list of speakers and chairs includes:

– invited guests:

Camelia Toader (University of Bucharest), Michał Kowalski (Jagiellonian University), Piotr Mostowik (Jagiellonian University), Andrea Bonomi (University of Lausanne), Patrick Wautelet (Université de Liège), Janeen Carruthers (University of Glasgow), Ioana Olaru (Romanian Notarial Institute), Anatol Dutta (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität), Biset Sena Gunes (Max- Planck-Institut für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht), Ilia Rumenov (Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje), Slavko Djordjevic (University of Kragujevac); and

– partners to the project:

Javier Carrascosa González (Murcia University), Silvia Marino (Università degli Studi dell’Insubria), Caroline Rapatz (Kiel University), Konstantinos Rokas (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki), Maria Asunción Cebrian Salvat (Murcia University), Katja Karjalainen (University of Eastern Finland), Iina Tornberg (University of Eastern Finland), Katarzyna Bogdziewicz (Mykolo Romerio Universitetas), Curzio Fossati (Università degli Studi dell’Insubria) and Anna Wysocka-Bar (Jagiellonian University).

Additionally, the Conference will be enriched with a panel designed for young scholars and young professionals. This panel will include presentations by Victoria Jürgensen (PhD Candidate, University of Kiel), Irakli Leonidze (PhD Candidate, Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University), Dominika Kukuczka (PhD Candidate, Silesia University), Anastasia Kalantzi (Open University Cyprus/Democritus University of Thrace), João Nuno Queirós Ribeiro Soares Barros (University of Minho) and Edoardo Catinari (Sapienza University of Rome).

The programme of the Conference is available here. The detailed programme of the Young Scholars’ Panel is available here. 

The conference will be conducted in English. Both –  onsite and online – participation is possible. Participation is free of charge, but registration is required. Participants may register using the form available here.

Questions regarding the conference may be directed to the conference organisers at eusuccess@uj.edu.pl

Readers of the blog might also be interested in the outputs of the EUSuccess project –   EUSuccess National Reports and EUSuccess Database of National Case-Law on the Succession Regulation.