Part I: Settlement of disputes in estate and trust matters through arbitration and alternative dispute resolution
Introduction / Henry S. Ziegler
1. The use of alternative dispute resolution from a Scandinavian perspective / Randi Bach Poulsen
2. Problems in attaining binding determinations of trust issues by alternative dispute resolution / David J. Hayton
3. Arbitrability in estate in trust litigation / Georg von Segesser
Part II: Major transnational legal issues (non-tax) in testamentary matters, including the effect of the Hague Convention on Succession to the Estates of Deceased Persons
Introduction / Donovan M. Waters
1. Major transnational legal issues (non-tax) in testamentary matters, including the effect of the Hague Convention on Succession to the Estates of Deceased Persons : the Austrian view / Kurt Heller
2. The making of wills and the administration of estates in Mexico / Francisco Fernández-Cueto B., Francisco Javier Arce Gargollo
3. Major transnational legal issues (non-tax) in testamentary matters : the Swiss law aspect / Alfred Necker
4. Major transnational legal issues (non-tax) in testamentary matters, including the effect of the Hague Convention on Succession to the Estates of Deceased Persons : the U.S. perspective / Erik J. Stapper
Part III: Responsibility of tax advisers: the borderline between optimal and abusive planning
Introduction / Richard Moyse
1. The borderline between optimal and abusive planning : a Canadian perspective / John M. Fuke, Mary Anne Bueschkens
2. The borderline between optimal and abusive planning : a German perspective / Juergen Killius
3. The borderline between optimal and abusive planning : and Italian perspective / Guglielmo Maisto
4. Tax avoidance, evasion, and abuse in transactional and dispositive planning : what's the difference, and what are we doing? / Joseph L. Wyatt, Jr.
Part IV: Recent developments in offshore trusts from a common law and civil law viewpoint
Introduction / Antony Duckworth
1. The new frontier of purpose trusts / Antony Duckworth
2. Purpose trusts and difficult assets : recent developments in offshore trusts from a common law and civil law viewpoint / James Crill
3. Developments in Cayman Islands trusts : STAR, settlor reserved powers / Ian Lambert
4. Domestic venues for asset protection trusts / Duncan E. Osborne, Leslie C. Giordani, Elizabeth M. Schurig.