McGill.CA / Paul-André Crépeau Centre for Private and Comparative Law

Conference : The Worlds of the Trust | 23-25 September 2010

The Worlds of the Trust

The Worlds of the Trust

The Quebec Research Centre of Private and Comparative Law (now known as the Paul-André Crépeau Centre for Private and Comparative Law) hosted a conference entitled The Worlds of the Trust/La fiducie dans tous ses États, from the 23rd to the 25th of September 2010, at McGill University's Faculty of Law.

Until recently, the trust was often described as foreign to the logic of the law of property in the civilian tradition. This assertion is increasingly untenable, as the profile of the trust in legal systems with a civilian law of property continues to develop and expand. The conference sought to explore the multiple ways in which civilian and mixed legal systems have embraced the trust, with the goal of allowing jurists from different jurisdictions to better understand their different approaches to this increasingly important legal institution.

This conference aimed to be a new point of departure in the comparative study of trust law. Twenty papers were presented which examine issues relating to the nature and operation of trusts in civilian and mixed legal systems. Commentary on the papers was provided by commentators with expertise in the common law trust. The conference proceedings will soon be published.

View the full program: Program - The Worlds of the Trust [pdf]

Conference speakers included:

  • François Barrière, Université Paris-II (Panthéon-Assas);
  • Alexandra Braun, Oxford University;
  • François du Toit, University of the Western Cape, Republic of South Africa;
  • Thomas Gallanis, University of Iowa;
  • George Gretton, University of Edinburgh;
  • Lusina Ho, University of Hong Kong;
  • M. le juge Nicholas Kasirer, Quebec Court of Appeal;
  • Paul Matthews, King's College London.

Commentators included:
  • Gregory Alexander, Cornell Law School;
  • Aline Grenon, University of Ottawa;
  • John Langbein, Yale Law School;
  • Ben McFarlane, Oxford University;
  • Tina Piper, McGill University;
  • Lionel Smith, McGill University;
  • Donovan Waters, University of Victoria (Emeritus).

The Centre acknowledges with gratitude the financial support that it received from the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel Foundation, from Quebec’s Ministère du Développement économique, de l’Innovation et de l’Exportation, and from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

The Crépeau Centre thanks the Chambre des notaires du Québec and the Department of Justice Canada for their financial support.

  

 

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