Designed to teach students that relationships governed by fiduciary obligation often require parties to abide by a high standard of fidelity and to remain loyal to the interests of the other party of the relationship, even at some personal cost. Even with outside relationships governed by fiduciary obligation, parties' conduct is evaluated against norms of good faith as well as against norms derived from the parties' express contractual undertakings. These duties play a significantand arguably unifyingrole in otherwise disparate bodies of law.
