Workshop: Power, Property and the Law of Trusts Revisited, University of Kent, 25-26 October

In his 1987 article, Roger Cotterrell outlined for the first time a critical, socio-legal approach to the law of trusts.[1] For Cotterrell law is both instrumental and ideological. As such, critical analysis aims at the demystification of law: how does law structure and guarantee, on the one hand, yet legitimate and hide, on the other, the exercise of power?