Book description
In Fiduciary Law, Tamar Frankel examines the structure, principles, themes, and objectives of fiduciary law. Fiduciaries, which include corporate managers, money managers, lawyers, and physicians among others, are entrusted with money or power. Frankel explains how fiduciary law is designed to offer protection from abuse of this method of safekeeping.…
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1 author picked Fiduciary Law as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This book provides a useful counterpoint to the analysis offered in my book, given it focuses on the US perspective on fiduciary duties.
Professor Frankel has been writing about fiduciary duties for decades, and is a grand dame of the academy – she writes lucidly and makes cogent arguments for the way legal regulation (of various kinds) should tackle real-world problems of disloyalty.
From Matthew's list on The best books to understand the legal idea of loyalty owed by a fiduciary.
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