QRCPCL Civil Law Trust project gets major support

A team of researchers from the Quebec Research Centre of Private and Comparative Law (QRCPCL) has just received an important grant for their Civil Law Trust project. The grant is from the Quebec government’s ministère du Développement économique, de l'Innovation et de l'Exportation, as part of their Assistance for International Research and Innovation Initiatives program.

The three-year Civil Law Trust project aims at improving the understanding of the trust in Quebec and more broadly in the civilian legal tradition, and learning more about how jurisdictions elsewhere have implemented the trust.

As Professor Lionel Smith, director of the QRCPCL, explains, "This work will also help academics and professionals both in Canada and abroad to better appreciate this legal instrument and how it is conceived in Quebec. After all, the trust, both in the civil and common law traditions, is a fundamental legal instrument that plays an important role in business."

Leveraging McGill’s Faculty of Law unique transsystemic approach, the QRCPCL’s initiative will advance Quebec’s conception of the trust, which is one of the most innovative, flexible and progressive in the world. As part of this project, the QRCPCL and its network of partners located in Israel, Italy, China, France, the USA and the United Kingdom will organize a major international conference on civil law trust for 2010.