ABSTRACT
This chapter considers sociology of trusts law and in particular the impact of trusts on women; and we shall consider how trusts law affects geopolitics. International trusts are also central to the funding of international terrorism and serious organised crime. In university law school courses, it is common to think of trusts law as being simply a technical subject. And yet most land law courses spend no time at all on public sector leases or public housing law, nor do they spend any time on agricultural law. Instead, a large amount of time is lavished on easements and covenants, instead of the more significant aspects of planning law and environmental law which apply more generally across the population. When Lord Denning created the 'married woman's equity' he was seeking to identify an area of equity which would protect wives from mistreatment by their husbands and being thrown out of their homes in an era before modern marriage law.
