Allan Myers Chair in Equity and Trusts
- Employer
- UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE
- Location
- Melbourne, Australia
- Salary
- $226,517 p.a.
- Closing date
- 28 Feb 2025
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- Academic Discipline
- Law, Social Sciences
- Job Type
- Academic Posts, Professors / Chairs
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
Job Details
Position Number: 0064085
Location: Parkville
Role type: Full-time; Continuing
Faculty: Melbourne Law School
Salary: Level E – $226,517 p.a. plus administrative loading
Opportunity
This is a unique and exciting opportunity for a distinguished legal scholar committed to excellence and innovation within the equity and trusts discipline, to join the faculty as the inaugural Allan Myers Chair in Equity and Trusts. Reporting to the Dean.
This significant and prestigious role is expected to lead and conduct cutting-edge research that advances the understanding of Equity and Trusts across the world, contributing to the faculty’s reputation for excellence and its commitment to addressing contemporary legal challenges. The appointee will play a key role in building community and collaboration at Melbourne Law School, helping to nurture the next generation of private law scholars.
About You
The successful applicant will be a distinguished legal scholar in the area of Equity and Trusts, with a proven record as a successful educator and researcher, with a substantial publication record.
- A good first degree in law
- A doctoral degree in a relevant field
- Significant expertise in the doctrines and institutions of equity and the law of trusts
Full list of the key search criteria can be found in the attached PD.
About Us
Faculty of Law
Melbourne Law School is Australia’s first all-graduate law faculty. The Melbourne Law School was the first faculty in Australia to teach law and awarded this country’s first law degree.
The Law School has now committed itself to build on our more than 150-year history of excellence and innovation by shifting from undergraduate legal education to the global standard, graduate level Juris Doctor degree. Coupled with the unrivalled excellence of the Melbourne law Masters and its internationally renowned Research Higher Degree programs, the Law School offers a unique opportunity for the integration of scholarship and teaching. https://law.unimelb.edu.au
Employee Benefits
We offer generous employee benefits to help maximise your work life. These include flexible and family friendly working conditions, salary packaging, internal School and Faculty grant schemes including a dedicated scheme for women and generous leave provisions. This is a fantastic opportunity to work in a culturally rich and values-based environment.
To find out more, go to https://about.unimelb.edu.au/careers/staff-benefits
How to apply
Please submit your application, including your resume (with referees listed), cover letter and responses to the key search criteria found in the Position Description for the role.
If you have any questions about the role, please email Professor Belinda Fehlberg b.fehlberg@unimelb.edu.au
Applications close: 28 Feb 2025 11:55 PM AUS Eastern Daylight Time
Company
The University of Melbourne enjoys an outstanding reputation with world rankings consistently placing us as Australia’s leading comprehensive research-intensive university, and one of the world’s top 50*.
Melbourne attracts the best and brightest students and researchers and, with a history of over 160 years, we occupy a special place at the heart of our city’s cultural scene.
Melbourne is a leading research university, widely renowned for its teaching and the social and economic contributions it makes through knowledge transfer. The University’s performance in international rankings puts it at the forefront of higher education in the Asia-Pacific and beyond.
Internationally, the University is consistently ranked among the leading universities in the world, with its international peers placing it in the top 20 worldwide, and employers placing it in the top 10. In the recent Times Higher Education rankings of the world’s top 200 universities, Melbourne ranked top in Australia and 33 in the world.
Melbourne’s international research pre-eminence was also acknowledged with a top 100 ranking in the Shanghai Jiao Tong rankings. Ranked No. 44 in 2015, the University has climbed steadily in the rankings since first appearing at No. 92 in 2003.
The Melbourne Model introduces undergraduate programs characterised by both breadth and depth, followed by a graduate professional degree, a research higher degree or entry directly into employment.
In 2008 Melbourne commenced offering six New Generation undergraduate degrees in Arts, Biomedicine, Commerce, Environments, Music and Science. The Melbourne Model also introduces a new graduate school experience to Australia, providing the best and brightest with a more focused, intense and professionally relevant degree in areas such as Law, Architecture, Teaching and Nursing. With the Melbourne curriculum now aligning the University with the world’s top universities in Europe, North America and Asia, we enable our students to develop the skills and attributes required by employers all over the world.
More than 50,000 students from over 120 countries take courses in the University’s 12 faculties and graduate schools.
For more information please visit: http://www.unimelb.edu.au
*Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2015 – 2016 and Academic Ranking of World Universities 2015
- Mini-site
- UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE
- Telephone
- +61 (3) 8344 4000
- Location
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Parkville
Melbourne
Victoria
VIC 3010
Australia
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