Charles Sampford, Ken Coghill, Tim Smith

Fiduciary Duty and the Atmospheric Trust (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This volume brings together a range of perspectives including leading international thinkers on questions of fiduciary duty and public trust . It presents a detailed examination of the nature and extent of fiduciary duty, looking at the example of governance of climate change policy in Australia and having regard to developments in comparable jurisdictions. It identifies principles that could improve the accountability of political actors for their responses to major problems that may extend over multiple electoral cycles.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317135456
• Artikelnr.: 49365429

Autorenporträt

Charles Sampford, Foundation Dean, Law School at Griffith University and later foundation director of the Key Centre for Ethics, Lord Justice and Governance. Director of the Institute for Ethics, Governance and Law, a joint initiative of the United Nations, and University of Griffith from September 2004. Convenor of the Australian Research Council Funded Governance Research Network. His research since 1990 has concentrated in the areas of applied ethics, ethics regimes, constitutional law, corruption measurement, integrity system, the rule of law, and the role of values in international affairs.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Rulers' Duties to Our Environment?
Ken Coghill
Charles Sampford
Tim Smith; Chapter 2 Fiduciary Duty and Climate Governance: Challenges for International Diplomacy and Law
Will McGoldrick
Donald Feaver
Andrew Maver; Chapter 3 Public Trusts and Fiduciary Relations
Paul Finn; Chapter 4 Trust
Governance and the Good Life
Lisi Oliver
Charles Sampford; Chapter 5 Public Officials
Public Trusts and Fiduciary Duties
John Glover; Chapter 6 Atmospheric Trust Litigation Across the World
Mary Christina Wood; Chapter 7 Fiduciary Principles and International Organizations
Donald Feaver; Chapter 8 High Court of Australia on Fiduciary Theory
Rosemary Teele Langford; Chapter 9 Applying Fiduciary Duty in Real Politik
Andrew Murray; Chapter 10 Fiduciary Duty
Democracy and the Rule of Law
Robert Clark; Chapter 11 The Role of Fiduciary Duty in Safeguarding the Future
Kelvin Thomson; Chapter 12 A Ponzi Scheme on the Environment? Failures of Fiduciary Duty and the Challenges of Climate Governance
Fiona Haines; Chapter 13 From Fiduciary States to Joint Trusteeship of the Atmosphere: The Right to a Healthy Environment through a Fiduciary Prism
Evan Fox-Decent; Chapter 14 Conclusion
Ken Coghill
Charles Sampford
Tim Smith;