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The Worlds of the Trust

Editor: Lionel Smith, McGill University, Montréal

Lusina Ho, Yaëll Emerich, Aude Peyrot, Reinout Wibier, Lionel Smith, François Barrière, Blandine Mallet-Bricout, Nurfadzilah Yahaya, Adam Hofri-Winogradow, François du Toit, Alexandra Braun, Gregory Alexander, Paul Matthews, Michael Lubetsky, Iris Goodwin, Thomas Gallanis, Rebecca Lee, Robert Sitkoff, Magdalena Raczynska, Remus Valsan, Ben McFarlane, George Gretton

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Date Published: August 2013
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isbn: 9781107032439

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Despite the common belief that they are found only in the common law tradition, trusts have long been known in mixed jurisdictions even where they have a civilian law of property. Trusts have now been introduced by legislation in a number of civilian jurisdictions, such as France and China. Other recent developments include the reception of foreign trusts through private international law in Italy and Switzerland and the inclusion of a chapter on trusts in Europe's Draft Common Frame of Reference. As a result, there is a growing interest in the ways in which the trust can be accommodated in civil law systems. This collection explores this question, as well as general issues such as the juridical nature of the trust, the role and qualifications of the trustee and particular developments in specific jurisdictions.
- Showcases new scholarship in comparative trust law
- Explores aspects of the law of trusts in civilian and mixed jurisdictions and demonstrates the ways in which such jurisdictions can choose to incorporate the trust
- Provides expert analysis in English of newly-created aspects of trust law in China, France and Switzerland
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- Date Published: August 2013
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781107032439
- length: 571 pages
- dimensions: 234 x 156 x 36 mm
- weight: 0.94kg
- contains: 2 b/w illus.
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
1. Trusts: the essentials Lusina Ho
2. The civil law trust: a modality of ownership, or an interlude in ownership? Yaëll Emerich
3. How to square the circle: the challenge met by Swiss insolvency law in dealing with common law trusts Aude Peyrot
4. Can a modern legal system do without the trust? Reinout Wibier
5. Stateless trusts Lionel Smith
6. The security fiducie in French law François Barrière
7. The trustee: mainspring, or only a cog, in the French fiducie? Blandine Mallet-Bricout
8. British colonial law and the establishment of family waqfs by Arabs in the Straits Settlements, 1860–1941 Nurfadzilah Yahaya
9. Zionist settlers and the English private trust in Mandate Palestine Adam Hofri-Winogradow
10. Jurisprudential milestones in the development of trust law in South Africa's mixed legal system François du Toit
11. The framing of a European law of trusts Alexandra Braun
12. The dilution of the trust Gregory Alexander
13. The compatibility of the trust with the civil law notion of property Paul Matthews
14. Categorically different: unintended consequences of trust taxonomy Michael Lubetsky
15. Why civil law countries might forego the individual trustee: provocative insights from the new-to-the-fold Iris Goodwin
16. The contribution of fiduciary law Thomas Gallanis
17. Convergence and divergence in the worlds of the trust: duties and liabilities of trustees under the Chinese trust Rebecca Lee
18. Trust law as fiduciary governance plus asset partitioning Robert Sitkoff
19. Parallels between the civilian separate patrimony, real subrogation and the idea of property in a trust fund Magdalena Raczynska
20. Rights against rights and real obligations Remus Valsan
21. The trust and its civilian analogues Ben McFarlane
22. Up there in the Begriffshimmel? George Gretton.
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Lionel Smith, McGill University, Montréal
Lionel Smith is James McGill Professor of Law and Director of the Paul-André Crépeau Centre for Private and Comparative Law at the Faculty of Law, McGill University, Montréal, Canada.
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Lusina Ho, Yaëll Emerich, Aude Peyrot, Reinout Wibier, Lionel Smith, François Barrière, Blandine Mallet-Bricout, Nurfadzilah Yahaya, Adam Hofri-Winogradow, François du Toit, Alexandra Braun, Gregory Alexander, Paul Matthews, Michael Lubetsky, Iris Goodwin, Thomas Gallanis, Rebecca Lee, Robert Sitkoff, Magdalena Raczynska, Remus Valsan, Ben McFarlane, George Gretton