Trustees of pensions, charities, and personal trusts invest tens of trillions of dollars of other
people's money subject to a sacred trust known in the law as fiduciary duty. Recently, these …

Trusts are often a central feature of sophisticated estate planning among affluent property
owners. Unlike intestate succession and wills that distribute property outright upon the …

The Oxford Handbook of Fiduciary Law provides a comprehensive overview of critical topics
in fiduciary law and theory through chapters authored by leading scholars. The Handbook …

This Article develops an interpretive theory for statutes that originate as Uniform Acts
promulgated by the Uniform Law Commission. Although overlooked in the literature on …

The Uniform Directed Trust Act'adopted by the Uniform Law Commission (" ULC") in 2017
has been enacted in Georgia, 2 Michigan, 3 and New Mexico, 4 and introduced in several …

The Oxford Handbook of the New Private Law reflects exciting developments in scholarship
dedicated to reinvigorating the study of the broad field of private law. This field embraces the …

The rules governing conflict of trust laws have never been more important. State trust law
has become increasingly differentiated on a growing number of salient issues. Billions of …

This book chapter, prepared for the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Fiduciary Law,
canvasses the fiduciary principles applicable to a trustee of a donative, irrevocable private …

An assertion: the rise of" total return" investing, and the related shift away from the feudal
vestiges of trust law inherent in" simple" income-only trusts, the" legal lists" and the" prudent …

The organizing principle of the American law of succession is freedom of disposition. This
book chapter surveys freedom of disposition in American succession law--intestacy, wills …