This is a transcript of an interview with Professor Kenneth Reid on the issues related to “Principles of European Trust law and Draft Directive on ‘Protective Funds'” – , held in August 2010 in Professor Reid's office at the University of Edinburgh. Professor Reid is an authority on...

Trust Act 2006 was the first full-fledged revision in 84 years since the enactment of the Former Trust Act, with no significant revision having been made during this period. This revision scaled up the Former Trust Act, which contained 75 Articles, into the one with as many as 271 Articles...

(※under revision)This paper describes the history of the academic theories on Trusts in Japan, focusing on how the theories have understood the fundamental construction of Trust.Ever since the enactment of the former Trust Act, the characteristics and essential elements of the act of creating...