Forme testamentarie e libertà di testare: emergenza pandemica e transizione digitale

The state of emergency due to the Covid-19 pandemic impacted in many fields of law, included the testamentary wills, traditionally less influenced by social changes. The formal requirements for the validity of wills were under scrutiny in many legal systems, because of the difficulty to comply with these rules for people in isolation or quarantine. In this context, the use of digital technologies to make a will was questioned and some jurisdictions emended legislations about the will formalities. The Author analyses this phenomenon, from a comparative perspective, in order to evaluate how and to what extend the pandemic contributed to a digital transition of will formalities and the recognition of informal wills in national laws.