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PIL Conventions -- U.S. Ratification under Consideration

• Hague Convention on the Law Applicable to Trusts and on their Recognition (1985)
  Text, status, background material, and bibliography (at the Hague Conference)

• Hague Convention on the Law Applicable to Succession to the Estates of Deceased Persons (1989)
  Text, status, background material, and bibliography (at the Hague Conference)

• UNIDROIT Convention providing a Uniform Law on the Form of an International Will (Washington, 1973)
  (Senate Advice and Consent obtained 1980; awaiting implementing legislation)
  Text (at UNIDROIT)

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