Conference at McGill University About Trusts

The Quebec Research Centre of Private and Comparative Law is holding a conference entitled The Worlds of the Trust/La fiducie dans tous ses États on September 23-25, 2010, at the Faculty of Law, McGill University. A description of the conference is below:

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. This conference seeks 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 promises to be a new point of departure in the comparative study of trust law. Twenty papers will be presented which examine issues relating to the nature and operation of trusts in civilian and mixed legal systems. Commentary on the papers will be provided by commentators with expertise in the common law trust. The working languages of the conference will be English and French. Simultaneous translation will be provided.