In the current episode of "Trusts Talk", the trusts podcast I co-host with Prof. Mark Bennett, we hosted Sara Adami-Johnson of RBC Wealth Management for an exciting chat about wealth, families, advising them, art, the art market, positive psychology and so much else: www.youtube.com/@truststalk

Trusts Talk

Trusts Talk with Adam Hofri-Winogradow and Mark Bennett is a podcast featuring deep-dive discussions with trust lawyers and academics on a wide range of fascinating issues in trusts law. Through thoug...

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Together with my good colleague and friend, Prof. Mark Bennett of the Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand (people.wgtn.ac.nz/mark.bennett), I am today inaugurating a new podcast about trusts law, trusts practice and trusts research, called "Trusts Talk".

Published today: my chapter, co-authored with the incredible Sara Adami-Johnson, about offshore firewalls: academic.oup.com/edited.../61.... The chapter will appear in the Oxford Handbook of Comparative Trust Laws, edited by Mark Bennett, Lusina Ho, Richard Nolan and me.

Published today, 103(3) Canadian Bar Review, 703-721 (2025).

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 david.freedman@queensu.ca.

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 etpjconference@gmail.com, by July 1, 2025.

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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 etpjconference@gmail.com, 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....