Private Law Theory

ABSTRACT
Fiduciary law is a wholesale legal category. It addresses a wide variety of deeply heterogenous legally-constituted or legally-facilitated frameworks. In this short entry, written for the forthcoming Concise Encyclopedia of Fiduciary Law (Yifat Naftali Ben Zion and D Gordon Smith eds), I argue that refining the distinctive contribution of fiduciary law to autonomy, while appreciating the diverse ways in which it manifests itself, is key to ensure the validity of learning and cross-fertilization across these fiduciary types.

Dagan, Hanoch, Autonomy and Pluralism (September 29, 2026).