17 Fall 2021 laws, including judge-made law, provide more protection than is generally recognized. Financial regulators and end-investors have a role to play here in ensuring the highest standards are applied to trustees and other fiduciaries. A realist would accept that anti-boycott legislation is unlikely to be a panacea, but the UK government at least now does have the advantage of anecdotal evidence of the kinds of situations the legislation must address. n Daniel A. Harris, Solicitor (England & Wales), has a degree in Politics and International Relations from Cambridge. He is a former attorney at Goldman Sachs and at Shearman & Sterling in New York. He is a founding partner at Chancery Advisors, a law firm based in London, which advises major financial institutions operating in the global derivatives and securities markets. He regularly advises on BDS-related issues.
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