The winner of the 2013 Marco Biagi Award is Aline Van Bever (University of Leuven) for a paper entitled, The Fiduciary Nature of the Employment Relationship. This paper explores the circumstances under which an employment relationship may entail fiduciary duties. Recognizing that the employment relationship is both relational and embedded within a complex framework of explicit and implicit norms, the paper explores English, American, Canadian, and Australian law to determine when employees owe specific duties of loyalty to their employer.

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