Commercial Trusts in European Private Law

Erscheinungsjahr 2009
ISBN: 978-0-521-11560-5
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 632 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 1011 g

Reihe: The Common Core of European Private Law

In European legal systems, a variety of approaches to trust and relationships of trust meet the universal professionalisation of asset management services. This book explores that interface in order to seek a better understanding of the legal regulation of the entrustment of wealth. Within the methodology of the Common Core of European Private Law, the book sets out cases on the establishment and termination of management relationships, obligations of loyalty and of professionalism, and the choice of law. More specialized cases address collective investment, collective secured lending, pension funds, and securitisation. Reports on these cases from fifteen jurisdictions of the European Union tackle fundamental problems of trust law and show which legal techniques are deployed to solve them across Europe. In addition to a much-needed comparative treatment of the subject, the book discusses the scholarly setting for the issues and gives guidance on the terminology in the evolving European scene.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Graziadei, Michele

Mattei, Ugo

Smith, Lionel

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsvergleichung
• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Europarecht Europäisches Privat- und Vertragsrecht

Inhaltsverzeichnis

General editors' preface; Preface; Contributors to the volume; Contributors to the case studies; List of Abbreviations; Select bibliographies for jurisdictions represented; Part I. Setting the Scene: 1. Commercial Trusts in European Private Law: the Interest and Scope of the Enquiry; 2. A short note on terminology; 3. The Hague Trust Convention twenty years on; Part II. The Case Studies: Section 1. General Part: 4. Case 1: Creation and termination of the management relationship; powers of the manager; 5. Case 2: Investment duties; 6. Case 3: Conflict of interest; 7. Case 4: Basic insolvency situation; 8. Case 5: Insolvency of investment manager; 9. Case 6: Tracing; 10. Case 7: Choice of law; Section 2. Special Part: 11. Case 8: Pension funds; 12. Case 9: Collective investment schemes; 13. Case 10: Multiple debenture holders; 14. Case 11: Securitisation; Part III. Conclusions: 15. Some difficulties; 16. Comparative remarks on the general part; 17. Comparative remarks on the special part; 18. What's next?; Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Graziadei, Michele
Professor of Comparative Private Law, Facolta di giurisprudenza, Universita del Piemonte orientale.

Smith, Lionel
James McGill Professor of Law, Faculty of Law and Institute of Comparative Law, McGill University.

Mattei, Ugo
Professore Ordinario di Diritto Civile, Universita di Torino; Alfred and Hanna Fromm Professor of International and Comparative Law, University of California, Hastings College of Law.