The Law of Loyalty - Lionel Smith

The Law of Loyalty

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Buch | Hardcover
496 Seiten
2023
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-766458-2 (ISBN)
119,95 inkl. MwSt
The Law of Loyalty elucidates common legal principles underlying the use of juridical powers. It addresses both public law and private law, and examines both the common law and the civil law. It aims to provide a theory of how Western law regulates the situations in which we hold legal powers, not for ourselves, but for and on behalf of others.
The Law of Loyalty is a study of the principles governing the use of legal powers that are held for other-regarding ends. It addresses both public law and private law, and examines both the common law and the civil law. It aims to provide a theory of how Western law regulates the situations in which we hold legal powers, not for ourselves, but for and on behalf of others.

It does this by elucidating the justificatory principles that are attracted in those situations. These principles include that other-regarding powers can only properly be used for the purposes for which they were granted; that they should not be used when the holder is in a conflict of self-interest and duty, or a conflict of duty and duty; and that the holder is presumptively accountable for any profits extracted from the other-regarding role.

These principles stand behind the detailed legal rules that govern these relationships in multiple legal systems and in multiple public and private settings. In private law this includes the powers of trustees, corporate directors, agents and mandataries; in public law it includes all powers held for public purposes, whether they be held by the Prime Minister, by a police officer, or by a judge.

Lionel Smith, BSc (Toronto), LLB (Western Ontario), LLM (Cantab), DPhil, MA, DCL (Oxon), LLB (Montréal) is Downing Professor of the Laws of England at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of Gonville and Caius College. He previously taught at the Universities of Alberta and Oxford before joining McGill University in 2000, where he was Sir William C Macdonald Professor of Law at McGill University from 2013-2022. Previously he was Director of the Paul-André Crépeau Centre for Private and Comparative Law and James McGill Professor. He is a Titular Member of the International Academy of Comparative Law and member of the American Law Institute, the European Law Institute, and the International Academy of Estate and Trust Law, and is a non-practising member of the Bar of Alberta.

PART I: INTRODUCTION
Chapter 1. Foundations

PART II: ACTING FOR OTHERS IN PRIVATE LAW
Chapter 2. Introduction

PART II.A: THE CORE CASES OF PRIVATE LAW ADMINISTRATION
Chapter 3. Loyalty in the Exercise of Private Law Powers of Administration
Chapter 4. Conflicts in Relation to Private Law Administration
Chapter 5. Attribution: Costs, Profits, and Information
Chapter 6. Other Obligations of Private Law Administrators

PART II.B: THE WIDENING REACH OF ADMINISTRATION IN PRIVATE LAW
Chapter 7. The Widening Reach of Administration in Private Law

PART II.C: THE ENFORCEMENT AND SUPERVISION OF PRIVATE ADMINISTRATION
Chapter 8. The Enforcement and Supervision of Private Administration

PART III: ACTING FOR OTHERS IN PUBLIC LAW
Chapter 9. Foundations of Public Law Administration
Chapter 10. The Enforcement and Supervision of Public Law Administration
Chapter 11. Spheres of Public Law Administration

PART IV: CONCLUSION
12. Conclusion

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Maße 226 x 165 mm
Gewicht 839 g
Themenwelt Recht / Steuern Allgemeines / Lexika
Recht / Steuern EU / Internationales Recht
ISBN-10 0-19-766458-X / 019766458X
ISBN-13 978-0-19-766458-2 / 9780197664582
Zustand Neuware
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