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Tunisia: Springtime For Defamation Of Religion, Robert C. Blitt
Tunisia: Springtime For Defamation Of Religion, Robert C. Blitt
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Discovery In A Global Economy, Maurice Stucke
What Is Competition?, Maurice Stucke
Why Civil Law Countries Might Forego The Individual Trustee: Provocative Insights From The New-To-The-Fold, Iris Goodwin
Why Civil Law Countries Might Forego The Individual Trustee: Provocative Insights From The New-To-The-Fold, Iris Goodwin
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At the center of this article lies a decision in several civil law countries that have adopted the common law trust to restrict the office of trustee to banks and similar financial service institutions. Having had an opportunity to consider the trust anew, these countries represent a challenge to the common law where the individual – indeed the untutored individual – can still qualify as trustee (and serve in this capacity alone). This permissive common law regime obtains notwithstanding the size of the trust endowment or the number of beneficiaries whose interests might be at stake. Indeed, in some common …