{"id":2282,"date":"2017-03-03T15:30:27","date_gmt":"2017-03-03T15:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/law-news\/?p=2282"},"modified":"2017-03-03T16:15:22","modified_gmt":"2017-03-03T16:15:22","slug":"2282","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/law-news\/2282\/","title":{"rendered":"SLSA grant for workshop on trusts law"},"content":{"rendered":"

Law Lecturers Nick Piska and Dr Hayley Gibson have been successful in their application to the Socio-Legal Studies Association (SLSA<\/a>) to fund a workshop\u00a0revisiting Professor Roger Cotterrell\u2019s critical scholarship in the field of trusts law. <\/span><\/p>\n

The workshop, entitled \u2018Property, Power and the Law of Trusts Revisited\u2019, is to be held in October 2017 and will bring together trusts lawyers to discuss how trust law and practice has developed or changed in the 30 years since Professor Cotterrell\u2019s ground-breaking article \u2018Power, Property and the Law of Trusts: A Partial Agenda for Critical Legal Scholarship\u2019. Themes to be explored include ideology and the state, power, economic and gender inequality, public benefit, and ethical investment.<\/span><\/p>\n

Dr\u00a0Gibson said: \u2018This symposium invites a timely reflection upon\u00a0the work begun by Cotterrell 30 years ago of extending critical legal thought to\u00a0the area of trusts. ‘Power, Property and the Law of Trusts’ provided the key to new inquiries into how\u00a0the ideology inherent in the property form extends to, and is exacerbated by, the function of the trust.\u00a0We hope that the\u00a0symposium will allow for a reflection on\u00a0how widely critique can be used in the area of trusts; and how the form of the trust can open up new directions\u00a0in critical thought.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n

Nick Piska said: \u2018A symposium on the politics of trusts is more pressing than ever given the increasing\u00a0gulf between the richest and poorest in society and the role that the trust industry plays in global wealth management. Too often the trust is ignored, probably because it is not well understood by non-lawyers, and the focus is on the corporate form. We hope this workshop will go some way towards redressing the balance.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n

The workshop is the fifth<\/span>\u00a0event organised through Kent Law School’s\u00a0Equity & Trusts Research Network<\/a>. It follows the publication of a double special issue of Polemos<\/i> on \u2018Equity and the Resources of Critique<\/a>\u2019\u00a0including papers presented at a workshop held at Kent in 2015 on that theme. The workshop in October\u00a0is co-sponsored by Kent Law School research group Social Critiques of Law<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Anyone interested in finding out more, who would like to attend the workshop\u00a0or who would like to be added to the Equity & Trusts Research Network, can\u00a0contact Nick via email:\u00a0n.piska@kent.ac.uk<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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