Here is a brief excerpt from the review:
The Article’s contributions are many but I will focus here on three. First, the Article provides a thorough account of how trust matters are sealed: (1) through a common law petition for a protective order in a specific case, which the Article refers to as “ad hoc sealing”, or (2) through recently enacted statutes that authorize sealing of the entire case as a matter of course or upon request, which the Article refers to as “super-sealing” statutes. . . . Second, the Article demonstrates that states with super-sealing statutes condone a striking deviation from the norm of public access.. . . In addition, the Article demonstrates how secrecy is likely to negatively impact judicial decisionmaking and the development of trust law—issues that should be of deep concern to lawyers, educators, and the public at large. It explains that secrecy deprives us of precedent.