Rate My Professor Jamie Glister

Professor Jamie Glister is Professor of Law at the University of Sydney Law School. He holds an MA and PhD from the University of Cambridge, an MJur and Postgraduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education from Durham University, and is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. From 2001 to 2006, he served as a teaching fellow and then lecturer in law at Durham University in the United Kingdom. Prior to that, he worked at King's College London. He joined the University of Sydney Law School following his time at Durham, advancing through positions including senior lecturer and associate professor to his current professorship.

Professor Glister's research fields, as recorded in 2020, include equity and trusts law, corporations and associations law, banking, finance and securities law, commercial law, and property law excluding intellectual property and land use planning. He teaches courses such as Equity, Fundamentals of the Law of Trusts, and Advanced Obligations and Remedies at the University of Sydney. His publications demonstrate expertise in equitable principles and remedies. He is co-editor of Hanbury & Martin: Modern Equity, with James Lee, including the 22nd edition published in 2021 by Sweet & Maxwell. He co-edited Fault Lines in Equity with Pauline Ridge in 2012. Key journal articles include 'Is There a Presumption of Advancement?' in the Sydney Law Review (2011, volume 33), 'Security Interests and Knowing Receipt' in Legal Studies (2023), 'Targeting Trustees: Liability for Breach of Trust' in the Cambridge Law Journal (2009), 'Mutual Intention and Quistclose Trusts' in the Journal of Equity (2012, volume 6), and contributions to the Iowa Law Review on lifetime wealth transfers and equitable presumptions. He has also written on accounts of profits for third parties in Equitable Compensation and Disgorgement of Profit (Hart Publishing, 2015). His scholarship examines topics such as fiduciary duties, resulting trusts, proprietary remedies, and trust liabilities.