{"product_id":"the-economic-structure-of-trusts","title":"The Economic Structure of Trusts","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book provides an economic account of why trusts exist and how trust law should be shaped.  The trust is a key legal institution in the common law world but it has been neglected by the law and economics community until recently. Borrowing theories and doctrines from corporate law and economics, scholars have variously analysed and described the trust as a tripartite contract, a nexus of contracts, and even a legal entity. These obligational approaches overlook\n\u003cbr\u003ethe unique features of trusts for which corporate legal theories have no explanation. Most importantly, they fail to account for the nature of the beneficiary's interest in the trust property.\n\u003cbr\u003eThis book presents an original analysis of the common law of trusts, arguing that trust law is about the trust property and the principal parties' relationships with it. At the same time it questions recent trends in trust law, especially those in offshore jurisdictions. Exotic developments such as non-charitable purpose trusts, settlor-retention of wide powers, and generous trustee exemption clauses have become the new normal and, coincidentally, draw analytical support\n\u003cbr\u003efrom obligational accounts. It develops an analysis of trusts from a proprietary perspective, and applies the property-based approach to the economic analysis of trusts - explaining the economic\n\u003cbr\u003ebenefits of trusts as an extension of the law of property.  It also demonstrates how, once trusts are properly understood as property, it becomes obvious why these novel developments can only be for the worse, and should be reversed.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46058795827438,"sku":"9780199602407","price":216.5,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0630\/9612\/7726\/files\/9780199602407.jpg?v=1736483516","url":"https:\/\/bookland.com.au\/products\/the-economic-structure-of-trusts","provider":"Book Land AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}