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State and Local Government Law

Fordham Law School

2014

Fiduciary duties

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Fiduciary Principles And The Jury, Ethan J. Leib, Michael Serota, David L. Ponet Jan 2014

Fiduciary Principles And The Jury, Ethan J. Leib, Michael Serota, David L. Ponet

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This Essay argues that because jurors exercise state power with wide discretion over the legal and practical interests of other citizens, and because citizens repose trust and remain vulnerable to jury and juror decisions, juries and jurors share important similarities with traditional fiduciary actors such as doctors, lawyers, and corporate directors and boards. The paradigmatic fiduciary duties – those of loyalty and care – therefore provide useful benchmarks for evaluating and guiding jurors in their decision-making role. A sui generis public fiduciary duty of deliberative engagement also has applications in considering the obligations of jurors. This framework confirms much of …