From: Jason W Neyers <jneyers@uwo.ca>

Sent: Tuesday 10 September 2024 20:55

To: obligations

Subject: ODG: Critical Trusts Law

 

Dear Colleagues:

 

Congratulations go out to ODGers Nick Pi ka  and Hayley Gibson on the publication of Critical Trusts Law: Reading Roger Cotterrell (Counterpress, 2024). It is an edited collection that revisits themes and theoretical perspectives in Roger Cotterrell s now canonical work, bringing the theoretical insights of sociological and critical theory to the field of trusts. Themes explored include power in trusts law and practice, trusts and moral-distancing, ideology, and wealth inequality. Here s the table of contents:

 

Preface: Nick Pi ka and Hayley Gibson

1. An Introduction to Critical Trusts Law: Nick Pi ka

2. The Power of the Settlor: Jonathan Garton

3. Trusts Law and the Problem of Moral Distance: Michael Bryan

4. The Reproduction of Property through the Production of Personhood: The Family Trust and the Power of Things: Johanna Jacques

5. The Myth of the Powerless Beneficiary and Twenty-First Century Trusts: Carla Spivack

6.  The More He Argued, The More Technical He Became : Trusts and Surplus Value: Adam Gearey

7. Subversion as an Agenda for Critical Trusts Law Scholarship: Mark Bennett and Adam Hofri-Winogradow

8. Tax Justice and the Abuse of Trusts: Andres Knobel

9. Trusts Law and Structural Power: T.T. Arvind and Ruth Stirton

10. Charity and Ideology: Henry Jones

11. The Gendered Trust: Lisa Sarmas

12. The Bank of England s Directors as Trustees in Walter Bagehot s Lombard Street: Iain Frame

13. Afterword: Trust and Critique after Three Decades: Roger Cotterrell

 

Further information including purchase options is available here: https://counterpress.org.uk/publications/critical-trusts-law/

 

Happy Reading,

 

esig-law

Jason Neyers
Professor of Law
Faculty of Law
Western University
Law Building Rm 26
e. jneyers@uwo.ca
t. 519.661.2111 (x88435)

 

 

 

 

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