The Estates, Trusts and Pensions Journal is holding a two-day conference at the Peter A. Allard School of Law, University of British Columbia, to be held on February 19-20, 2026. For full details and registration, please see: lnkd.in/gxDYaUvE

You can still catch my talk by registering to watch the conference online, on demand:

I greatly enjoyed giving the opening talk at the 27th Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (Canada) National Conference, held last week in Toronto, speaking about "The Trust Industry: Ways Forward for the Next Decade" to an audience of a thousand wealth management experts.

I much enjoyed talking about whether trusts should be made legal persons at the Trusts, Wealth Management and Philanthropy conference, held at the Hong Kong University Faculty of Law. Thanks to Yiran Shi (lnkd.in/g5498vVx), an up-and-coming trusts researcher, for the photo.

REMINDER: The Estates, Trusts and Pensions Journal is inviting paper proposals for a conference, to be held February 19-20, 2026 at the Allard School of Law, University of British Columbia.

STEP Canada's student paper competition is still accepting submissions!

The Estates, Trusts and Pensions Journal (tinyurl.com/2dzptjf6), Canada's premier source of trusts and estates scholarship, is soliciting submissions. Interested authors should contact the editor in chief, Prof. David Freedman, at [email protected].

The Estates, Trusts and Pensions Journal is inviting paper proposals for a conference, to be held February 19-20, 2026 at the Allard School of Law, University of British Columbia. Please send a 500-word abstract to David Freedman, the editor-in-chief, at [email protected], by July 1, 2025.

I'll be attending the amazing 2025 UBC Partnering in Research Conference. Let me know if you're planning to attend so that we can say Hi! 👋 Or register now and join me at the event! whova.com/portal/regis... #UBCPiR - via #Whova event app

The Estates, Trusts and Pensions Journal is inviting paper proposals for a conference, to be held February 19-20, 2026 at the Allard School of Law, University of British Columbia. Please send a 500-word abstract to David Freedman, the editor-in-chief, at [email protected], by July 1, 2025.

New paper notice: My "“Equity has No Place Here”: Should Equitable Remedies be Available to Reverse Failed Tax Planning?" is forthcoming in the Canadian Bar Review. The paper is available here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....