This is the introductory chapter to the edited collection, 'Asia-Pacific Trusts Law: Theory and Practice in Context'. We organised the inaugural meeting of the ‘Asia-Pacific Trusts Law’ project in December 2019 at the Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne. The symposium brought...

Systematic analysis of fiduciaries and trust is rare. The aim of this volume is to help fill this gap. The chapters explore the interactions of fiduciary law and trust, drawing on literatures on trust that have been generated in a variety of disciplines. They do so with an eye to the full scope...

Data on hundreds of variables related to individual consumer finance behavior (such as credit card and loan activity) is routinely collected in many countries and plays an important role in lending decisions. We postulate that the detailed nature of this data may be used to predict outcomes in...

"The practice of data analytics is changing and modernizing. Innovations in computation and machine learning are creating new opportunities for the data analyst: exposing previously unexplored data to scientific analysis, scaling tasks through automation, and allowing deeper and more accurate...

Big Data refers to data sets of much larger size, higher frequency, and often more personalized information. Examples include data collected by smart sensors in homes or aggregation of tweets on Twitter. In small data sets, traditional econometric methods tend to outperform more complex...

How can it be that the fiduciary relationship has trust at its core if trust is neither a necessary nor a sufficient condition for the existence of such a relationship? My aim in this article is to make some arguments that I think might assist in solving that puzzle. First, I argue that...

The diffusion of smart metering technology and intermittent renewable electricity generation capacity makes the deployment of time-varying electricity rates increasingly feasible and important to the functioning of electricity grids. Such rates, which economists advocate to more efficiently...

What does it mean to 'act charitably'? revisiting the purposes and activities distinction in charity law / Adam Parachin -- Purposes, activities, and the continued importance of charity modes of action / Ian Murray -- Too private to be charitable : difficulties in drawing the line in charity law...