ProfessorMatthew Conaglen

LLB (Hons) (Auck) LLM (Mich) PhD (Cantab)

Professor Conaglen is Professor of 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. He was the Deputy Dean of Sydney Law School from 2016-2018, and has held several high level administrative roles in the Law School.

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, 2010), and a co-author of Snell's Equity (34th ed, Sweet & Maxwell, 2020), as well as numerous book chapters and articles in leading journals both internationally and domestically. His writing has been cited by the High Court of Australia, the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, the Privy Council, the Singaporean Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court of New Zealand , as well as numerous lower courts in those jurisdictions.

Professor Conaglen is an Academic Barrister in New South Wales. Prior to becoming an academic, he was 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. Professor Conaglen is a graduate of the University of Auckland, the University of Michigan and the University of Cambridge.

See his list of recommendations for books to understand the legal duty of loyalty on BookDNA here: https://BookDNA.com/best-books/the-legal-idea-of-loyalty-owed-by-a-fiduciary