GIDEON ROTHSCHILD, partner, Moses & Singer LLP, New York, N.Y.
AUTHOR: Frances H. Foster, Edward T. Foote II Professor of Law, Washington University School of Law, St. Louis
ARTICLE: “American Trust Law in a Chinese Mirror,” 94 Minn. L. Rev. 602 (2010)
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Professor Foster’s article considers the impact on China’s comparative law literature and how it was influenced by U.S. trust law. It concludes that legal reformers in the United States can learn from Chinese commentary and legislative history to identify weaknesses and flaws in our own trust law.
Part I of the article explores the history of “legal transplants,” which is defined as “the moving of a rule or a system of law from one country to anot...
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