Dr Bryce Douglas-Baker is a corporate and commercial barrister who advises and appears as counsel in a wide range of jurisdictions and areas of law, including building and construction, contracts, corporations, co-operatives, equity, family, property, and water law.
Bryce is also an experienced university lecturer, having taught Law at several universities, including the University of Sydney through the Law Extension Committee, where he is currently the principal lecturer and unit of study co-ordinator for Commercial Transactions, Practice and Procedure, and Foundations of Law. He has also lectured in Commercial Equity, Civil Procedure, Evidence, Legal Rhetoric, and Legal Ethics.
Before entering the law, Bryce taught English and Rhetoric at the University of Sydney, where he received a Doctor of Philosophy in English for his thesis titled, Virtue and Kingship in Chaucer’s ‘Knight’s Tale’.
Bryce has been awarded numerous academic prizes and scholarships, including the Aaron Levine Prize in Criminal Law at the University of Sydney (awarded to the most proficient student in Criminal Law, a compulsory subject for all law students at the University of Sydney) and the James Coutts Scholarship in English Language at the University of Sydney (awarded to the most outstanding undergraduate at the end of Third Year).
Areas of Practice
- Appellate
- Building and Construction
- Contract
- Co-operatives
- Corporations
- Corporate and Commercial
- Criminal
- Equity
- Family
- Insolvency
- Property
- Transport
- Water
- Wills and Estates
