Download or read book Social Change in the Law of Trusts written by George W. Keeton and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1974-01-14 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays on the problems created in the Law of Trusts by social changes in England.
Download or read book Social Change in the Law of Trusts written by George William Keeton and published by . This book was released on with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Trust in Society written by Karen Cook and published by Russell Sage Foundation. This book was released on 2001-01-11 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trust plays a pervasive role in social affairs, even sustaining acts of cooperation among strangers who have no control over each other's actions. But the full importance of trust is rarely acknowledged until it begins to break down, threatening the stability of social relationships once taken for granted. Trust in Society uses the tools of experimental psychology, sociology, political science, and economics to shed light on the many functions trust performs in social and political life. The authors discuss different ways of conceptualizing trust and investigate the empirical effects of trust in a variety of social settings, from the local and personal to the national and institutional. Drawing on experimental findings, this book examines how people decide whom to trust, and how a person proves his own trustworthiness to others. Placing trust in a person can be seen as a strategic act, a moral response, or even an expression of social solidarity. People often assume that strangers are trustworthy on the basis of crude social affinities, such as a shared race, religion, or hometown. Likewise, new immigrants are often able to draw heavily upon the trust of prior arrivals—frequently kin—to obtain work and start-up capital. Trust in Society explains how trust is fostered among members of voluntary associations—such as soccer clubs, choirs, and church groups—and asks whether this trust spills over into other civic activities of wider benefit to society. The book also scrutinizes the relationship between trust and formal regulatory institutions, such as the law, that either substitute for trust when it is absent, or protect people from the worst consequences of trust when it is misplaced. Moreover, psychological research reveals how compliance with the law depends more on public trust in the motives of the police and courts than on fear of punishment. The contributors to this volume demonstrate the growing analytical sophistication of trust research and its wide-ranging explanatory power. In the interests of analytical rigor, the social sciences all too often assume that people act as atomistic individuals without regard to the interests of others. Trust in Society demonstrates how we can think rigorously and analytically about the many aspects of social life that cannot be explained in those terms. A Volume in the Russell Sage Foundation Series on Trust!--
Download or read book Social Enterprise Law written by Dana Brakman Reiser and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social enterprises represent a new kind of venture, dedicated to pursuing profits for owners and benefits for society. Social Enterprise Law provides tools that will allow them to raise the capital they need to flourish. Social Enterprise Law weaves innovation in contract and corporate governance into powerful protections against insiders sacrificing goals such as environmental sustainability in the pursuit of short-term profits. Creating a stable balance between financial returns and public benefits will allow social entrepreneurs to team up with impact investors that share their vision of a double bottom line. Brakman Reiser and Dean show how novel legal technologies can allow social enterprises to access capital markets, including unconventional sources such as crowdfunding. With its straightforward insights into complex areas of the law, the book shows how a social mission can even be shielded from the turbulence of an acquisition or bankruptcy. It also shows why, as the metrics available to measure the impact of social missions on individuals and communities become more sophisticated, such legal innovations will continue to become more robust. By providing a comprehensive survey of the U.S. laws and a bold vision for how legal institutions across the globe could be reformed, this book offers new insights and approaches to help social enterprises raise the capital they need to flourish. It offers a rich guide for students, entrepreneurs, investors, and practitioners.
Download or read book Trust in Contemporary Society written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-07-22 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trust in Contemporary Society, by well-known trust researchers, deals with conceptual, theoretical and social interaction analyses, historical data on societies, national surveys or cross-national comparative studies, and methodological issues related to trust. The authors are from a variety of disciplines: psychology, sociology, political science, organizational studies, history, and philosophy, and from Britain, the United States, the Czech Republic, the Netherlands, Australia, Germany, and Japan. They bring their vast knowledge from different historical and cultural backgrounds to illuminate contemporary issues of trust and distrust. The socio-cultural perspective of trust is important and increasingly acknowledged as central to trust research. Accordingly, future directions for comparative trust research are also discussed. Contributors include: Jack Barbalet, John Brehm, Geoffrey Hosking, Robert Marsh, Barbara A. Misztal, Guido Möllering, Bart Nooteboom, Ken J. Rotenberg, Jiří Šafr, Masamichi Sasaki, Meg Savel, Markéta Sedláčková, Jörg Sydow, Piotr Sztompka.
Download or read book Trust written by Francis Fukuyama and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bestselling author of The End of History explains the social principles of economic life and tells readers what they need to know to win the coming struggle for global economic dominance.
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Social and Political Trust written by Eric M. Uslaner and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-02 with total page 753 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the foundations of trust, and whether social and political trust have common roots. Contributions by noted scholars examine how we measure trust, the cultural and social psychological roots of trust, the foundations of political trust, and how trust concerns the law, the economy, elections, international relations, corruption, and cooperation, among myriad societal factors. The rich assortment of essays on these themes addresses questions such as: How does national identity shape trust, and how does trust form in developing countries and in new democracies? Are minority groups less trusting than the dominant group in a society? Do immigrants adapt to the trust levels of their host countries? Does group interaction build trust? Does the welfare state promote trust and, in turn, does trust lead to greater well-being and to better health outcomes? The Oxford Handbook of Social and Political Trust considers these and other questions of critical importance for current scholarly investigations of trust.
Download or read book Law in a Changing Society written by Friedmann and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Guide to the Major Trusts written by Luke FitzHerbert and published by . This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Guide to the Major Trusts written by Luke FitzHerbert and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Introduction to the Law of Trusts written by Simon Gardner and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2011-05-05 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive, stimulating introduction to trusts law, which provides readers with a clear conceptual framework to aid understanding of this challenging area of the law. Aimed at readers studying trusts at an undergraduate level, it provides a succinct and enlightening account of this area of the law. Concise and clear, this book also identifies and discusses many analytical perspectives, encouraging a deeper understanding of the issues at hand. It offers an outstanding treatment of specific areas, in particular remedial constructive trusts and trusts of family homes. Ideal for providing a broad background to the issues before embarking on an in-depth study of trusts, it can also be used to help the reader to develop their understanding. For those looking to challenge themselves, detailed footnotes highlight further issues and point the direction for future reading. Fully revised to take into account the Charities Act 2006, judicial developments through case law, and recent academic work in this area, this new edition in the renowned Clarendon Law Series offers a well-written, careful, and insightful introduction to the law of trusts.
Download or read book Parker and Mellows written by A. J. Oakley and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 1000 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An accessible and current guide to the legal aspects and overall functioning of trusts. This new and updated edition incorporates recent case law and major legislative changes, and will be of particular interest to teachers and students at undergraduate level, vocational students and practitioners.
Download or read book Social Investing and the Law of Trusts written by John H. Langbein and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Guide to the Major Trusts written by Directory of Social Change (Organization) and published by . This book was released on 2003-02-19 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grant-making trusts are a key source of funding for charitable activity, and this guide - now in its ninth edition - has built a reputation as the definitive source of information in this area. It concentrates on the 300 largest trusts, which between them give over u1400 million each year. Every trust in the guide gives over u350,000 a year. The content is compiled both through contact with the trusts themselves and through independent research."
Download or read book Trust in Modern Societies written by Barbara Misztal and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-06-07 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is one of the first systematic discussions of the nature of trust as a means of social cohesion, discussing the works of leading social theorists on the issue of social solidarity.
Download or read book Trusts of the Family Home written by John Mee and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This article surveys the development, over the last half-century, of the law in relation to trusts of the family home in Ireland. The focus on disputes over the beneficial ownership of the family home, the most important asset owned by many families, allows a consideration of the evolution of an aspect of the law of resulting and constructive trusts, set against the background of relevant legislative developments. The most common trigger for disputes over the beneficial ownership of the family home is the breakdown of an intimate relationship, whether a marriage or civil partnership or cohabitation. However, the trigger could also be the death or bankruptcy of one of the parties or a dispute with creditors. In addition, not all disputes arising on the breakdown of a relationship will involve an issue related to the ownership of the family home, one obvious reason being that many couples live in rented accommodation. There is, therefore, an imperfect match between the area of the law of equity conveniently described as “trusts of the family home” and the issue of the property consequences of relationship breakdown. Nonetheless, the development of this area of the law of equity has clearly been dominated by concerns as to the latter issue. A feature of the development of the law that will emerge in this article is that the social phenomenon or “problem” that equity has been seeking to address has changed over the course of the decades. Initially, disputes between married couples were the primary focus of the case law; however, the attention of commentators and law reformers has more recently shifted to those arising in the context of unmarried cohabitation (even if the case law in this context has remained sparse). Many judges and commentators have felt that there is the potential for injustice “upon the termination of a relationship where the parties were economically and emotionally interdependent and relied on the relationship rather than their separate legal entitlements to secure their financial well-being”. It will be seen that there is now Irish legislation governing the property rights of married couples upon judicial separation and divorce, as well as parallel legislation covering civil partners, with a more limited regime in place in respect of “qualified” cohabitants. Thus, not only do the equitable rules developed by our courts no longer have as much practical importance as they once did, it is also arguable that further judicial extension of them would not be democratically legitimate.
Download or read book Trusts Law written by Graham Moffat and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-09-03 with total page 1200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic textbook brings a modern perspective to the study of the law of equity. Its hallmark contextualized approach and commercial focus will help students understand the subject, and the authors' commentary on the factors informing trusts law allows students to confidently grapple with complex ideas.
