The Court Room holds the legal record of America's school trust lands. It is the room where the doctrinal lineage of trust law — Magna Carta to the Statute of Uses to the modern Uniform Trust Code — meets the twenty trust-lands states, the binding precedents that govern them, and the Attorney General opinions that interpret their enabling acts. It is also the room where Oregon's active litigation is followed in detail, because Oregon is presently the country's live test case for school-trust accountability.
Four subsections sit behind the doors below. Each is a first-draft preview: the architecture, the data, and substantive seeded content are in place. State Attorney General opinions live inside each state's dossier under The Atlas, where they're most useful to a reader working on that state.
The Lineage
Doctrinal evolution of trust law from English equity to American school trust — Magna Carta, Statute of Uses, Lord Hardwicke, the 1785 Land Ordinance, state Enabling Acts, and the modern Uniform Trust Code.
Open → Per-state · 20 dossiersThe Atlas
Map of the trust-lands states, with per-state dossiers — Enabling Act citation, current fund value, AG opinions, key cases, and a trust-integrity grade.
Open → Cases · annotatedThe Case File
Annotated Supreme Court cases, binding state-supreme-court precedents, and the active Oregon filings — statutes, AG opinions, official correspondence, litigation history, and expert declarations.
Open → Essays · nationwideThe Reading Wing
Long-form nationwide perspective essays on school trust law — how America created the school trust, how the trust was broken, what Utah did differently, and the forever-fiduciary question.
Open →Phase 1 of the Court Room Expansion Build (2026-05-18). First-draft preview content in each subsection; long-form Phase 2 essays drop in the next week.
