Matthew Conaglen holds the Chair in Equity and Trusts at the University of Sydney Law School, a position which he has held since 2012. He teaches and researches in the fields of equity, trusts and obligations. Prior to moving to Sydney, he was Reader in Equity and Trusts at the Faculty of Law in the University of Cambridge, where he taught for more than 10 years.
His doctoral dissertation, written at the University of Cambridge, was awarded the Yorke Prize in 2005. He is the author of Fiduciary Loyalty: Protecting the Due Performance of Non-Fiduciary Duties (Hart Publishing, 2010), has been a co-author of Snell’s Equity since 2005, and has written numerous book chapters and articles in leading journals, particularly in England and Australia. His writing has been cited the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, the Privy Council, the High Court of Australia, the Singaporean Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court of New Zealand, as well as numerous lower courts in those jurisdictions.
Matthew is an Academic Barrister in New South Wales, providing advice on matters in numerous jurisdictions. Before becoming an academic, he was a Judges Clerk at the Court of Appeal of New Zealand, and then a Senior Solicitor at a major New Zealand law firm where he was involved in a wide range of commercial litigation.
In recognition of his expertise in the fields of teaching and research in the Chancery sphere, he was made an Academic Member of the Chancery Bar Association in England. Matthew is a graduate of the University of Auckland, the University of Michigan and the University of Cambridge.
A selection of his more recent publications include:
