This Article develops a theory of the law governing financial fiduciaries (most notably trust law). We conceptualize financial fiduciaries law as a private law institution that enhances individual autonomy by enabling people to safely delegate to others the authority over a significant aspect of...

Poverty has so far been overwhelmingly understood as a state of distributive injustice. As a result, the debate in private law theory about the role of private law in alleviating poverty has essentially collapsed into the question of whether private law could, and should, promote distributive...

By way of an alternative to the failed project of codifying private law for the European Union, a socio-legal account of the effects of EU legal integration on private law in Europe describes the emergence of European Regulatory Private Law (ERPL). ERPL offers a coherent conception of this vast...