Masayuki Tamaruya, ‘Trust Law and Colonialism’, in The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Trust Laws (Adam S Hofri-Winogradow et al eds, forthcoming), available at SSRN (1 September 2024). Tethered to and inextricably linked with the absence or decline of democratic governance, there has always been empire. Empires rise and fall, as they say, but the imperial impulse is perennial and new iterations of old empires emerge with dismal regularity, showing us that imperial formations are hard to erase. The relationship between empire and trust law is one that is gaining increased attention, particularly in the context of offshore financial centers and the inescapable historical force of British colonialism … (more)
[Allison Anna Tait, JOTWELL, 26 May 2025]
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