The Worlds of the Trust

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.

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.