Evan Fox-Decent is Associate Professor of the Faculty of Law, McGill University. He teaches and publishes in legal theory, administrative law, First Nations and the law, immigration law, the law of fiduciaries, and human rights. He has worked on human rights and democratic governance reform in Latin America since 1987. He has served with the UN Verification Mission in Guatemala (1996-99), and has consulted on behalf of numerous development and research agencies, as well as on behalf of legal institutions in Latin America, including the Supreme Court of Venezuela, the European Union, the World Bank, the International Development Bank, USAID, and Canada's International Development Research Centre.

...it provides a clear discussion of the idea of fiduciary relationships and duties that is useful for, and should be largely accessible to, non-lawyers.

• Prologue: Hobbes and Legal Order ; 1. Introduction: The State as Fiduciary and the Rule of Law ; 2. Seeking Sovereignty ; 3. Some Objections ; 4. Fiduciary Relationships and the Presumption of Trust ; 5. The Duty to Obey the Law ; 6. Judicial Ambivalence to Public Fiduciary Duties ; 7. Procedural Fairness - A Pandora's Box of Legality ; 8. Administrative Law as Solicitude - Reasonable Decision-Making ; 9. The Rule of Law and Human Rights

Evan Fox-Decent is Associate Professor of the Faculty of Law, McGill University. He teaches and publishes in legal theory, administrative law, First Nations and the law, immigration law, the law of fiduciaries, and human rights. He has worked on human rights and democratic governance reform in Latin America since 1987. He has served with the UN Verification Mission in Guatemala (1996-99), and has consulted on behalf of numerous development and research agencies, as well as on behalf of legal institutions in Latin America, including the Supreme Court of Venezuela, the European Union, the World Bank, the International Development Bank, USAID, and Canada's International Development Research Centre.

...it provides a clear discussion of the idea of fiduciary relationships and duties that is useful for, and should be largely accessible to, non-lawyers.

• Prologue: Hobbes and Legal Order ; 1. Introduction: The State as Fiduciary and the Rule of Law ; 2. Seeking Sovereignty ; 3. Some Objections ; 4. Fiduciary Relationships and the Presumption of Trust ; 5. The Duty to Obey the Law ; 6. Judicial Ambivalence to Public Fiduciary Duties ; 7. Procedural Fairness - A Pandora's Box of Legality ; 8. Administrative Law as Solicitude - Reasonable Decision-Making ; 9. The Rule of Law and Human Rights

Evan Fox-Decent is Associate Professor of the Faculty of Law, McGill University. He teaches and publishes in legal theory, administrative law, First Nations and the law, immigration law, the law of fiduciaries, and human rights. He has worked on human rights and democratic governance reform in Latin America since 1987. He has served with the UN Verification Mission in Guatemala (1996-99), and has consulted on behalf of numerous development and research agencies, as well as on behalf of legal institutions in Latin America, including the Supreme Court of Venezuela, the European Union, the World Bank, the International Development Bank, USAID, and Canada's International Development Research Centre.

...it provides a clear discussion of the idea of fiduciary relationships and duties that is useful for, and should be largely accessible to, non-lawyers.

• Prologue: Hobbes and Legal Order ; 1. Introduction: The State as Fiduciary and the Rule of Law ; 2. Seeking Sovereignty ; 3. Some Objections ; 4. Fiduciary Relationships and the Presumption of Trust ; 5. The Duty to Obey the Law ; 6. Judicial Ambivalence to Public Fiduciary Duties ; 7. Procedural Fairness - A Pandora's Box of Legality ; 8. Administrative Law as Solicitude - Reasonable Decision-Making ; 9. The Rule of Law and Human Rights