William Montague Charles Gummow

William Montague Charles Gummow AC serves as Professor in The University of Sydney Law School. He graduated from the University of Sydney with a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Laws, both with first-class honours. Gummow has maintained a longstanding association with the University of Sydney Faculty of Law, lecturing part-time for thirty years on Intellectual Property from 1965 to 1986 and Principles of Equity from 1970 to 1995. Following his retirement from the High Court of Australia in 2012, he was appointed Professor at Sydney Law School, where he continues to deliver guest lectures.

Gummow's research specializations and academic interests center on equity, trusts, restitution, and intellectual property law. He is a leading authority, having co-authored and edited seminal texts that shape Australian legal scholarship, including Equity: Doctrines and Remedies (first, second, and third editions; resuming co-authorship for the fifth edition), Jacobs' Law of Trusts in Australia (second through fifth editions), and Cases and Materials on Equity and Trusts (first through fourth editions, with J. D. Heydon and R. P. Austin). Additionally, he authored Change and Continuity: Statute, Equity and Federalism, derived from his 1999 Clarendon Lectures at Oxford University. The University of Sydney recognized his outstanding contributions to legal scholarship with an honorary Doctor of Laws degree in 1992. Other major honors include appointment as Companion of the Order of Australia in 1997 and Life Membership of the Australian Bar Association in 2012. His career also encompasses practice as a solicitor from 1965 to 1976 (partner at Allen, Allen & Hemsley from 1969), admission to the Bar in 1976, appointment as Queen's Counsel in 1986, service as a judge of the Federal Court of Australia from 1986 to 1995, and as a Justice of the High Court of Australia from 1995 to 2012.

Professional Email: william.gummow@sydney.edu.au