Swain on Mrs. Jelleby, Victorian Values, and the Legal Framework of the Law of Charity in Nineteenth-Century England

Warren Swain, University of Auckland Faculty of Law, is publishing Mrs Jelleby, Victorian Values, and the Legal Framework of the Law of Charity in Nineteenth-century England as a University of Auckland Faculty of Law Research Paper. Here is the abstract.

From the mid-seventeenth century to the mid-nineteenth century the nature of private charity changed fundamentally. Charities became large, wealthy, national organisations. The legal and regulatory framework struggled to keep pace. The nineteenth century saw both changes to the substantive law of charities and the regulatory framework. These changes took place against the backdrop of debates about the proper reach of the state.

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