"Understanding Trusts as Property in (Semi-)Civil Law Jurisdictions: Comparisons Between Scotland and Japan"
Location:
Teaching Room 02,
Old College
Date/time
Wed 26 February 2025
17:00-19:00
About the event
The Scots trust is probably more similar to the Japanese trust than anything else: arguably the special patrimony theory applies, and juristically the beneficiary's right is formally defined as a personal right. My work is interested in seeing what insights can be gained from further comparison. I propose renewed attention to the idea of jus ad rem, explore similarities between trusts and real securities, and contemplate the implications of the absence of appropriate remedies for the breach of "fiduciary duty" (in the Scottish sense) as the Achilles' heel of Japanese trusts.
About the speaker
Dr Joyman Lee, University of Glasgow was raised in London, Joyman holds BA (starred first) and PhD degrees in history from Cambridge and Yale universities, respectively, and LLM and PhD degrees in law from UCL.
He has been a visiting scholar at the law schools of the University of Tokyo, National Taiwan University, Sciences Po Paris and McGill University.
This event is in person only.