About Bryce Douglas-Baker

Professional Roles

• Barrister

  Self-employed, Fourth Floor Selborne Chambers (previously at Blackstone Chambers)

  Called to the Bar — April 2015

Academic Positions

• Principal Lecturer and Unit of Study Co-ordinator

  University of Sydney, Law Extension Committee

  Subjects taught: Commercial Transactions, and Practice & Procedure
  Responsible for curriculum development, lecturing, and academic oversight for these units of study.

• Casual Academic – Lecturer and Tutor

  University of Technology Sydney

  Subjects currently taught: Evidence and Ethics for the UTS Bar Preparation Program.
  Previously taught: Commercial Equity and Civil Procedure.

Professional Experience

• Solicitor

  Atanaskovic Hartnell

  Practice area: Mergers and Acquisitions, Corporate and Commercial Law.

• Solicitor

  Norton White

  Practice area: Transport Law (Aviation), Corporate and Commercial Law.

• Barrister’s Assistant

  Forbes Chambers

  Legal assistant to Graham Turnbull SC (as his Honour then was), Peter Bodor KC, and Charles Waterstreet. Practice area: Criminal Law.

• Casual Academic – Lecturer and Unit of Study Co-ordinator

  Australian Catholic University

  Subject taught: Interpersonal Communication.

• Casual Academic

  University of Sydney

  Subjects taught: Rhetoric (senior), English Literature, Academic Writing, and Academic English, including sole teaching responsibility for some of these subjects in the Summer and Winter courses.

Professional Honours & Awards

• Citation for Lecturing

  Awarded for outstanding lecturing in Law by the University of Sydney’s Law Extension Committee in August 2023.

Educational Awards & Honours

• Aaron Levine Prize for Criminal Law

  Awarded to the most proficient student in Criminal Law, a compulsory subject for all law students at the University of Sydney.

• University of Sydney Graduate Program Entry Award – Law

  Awarded for academic excellence.

• University of Sydney Postgraduate Award – PhD

  Awarded for academic excellence.

• James Coutts Scholarship No 2 – English Language and Early English Literature

  Awarded to the most outstanding undergraduate at the end of Third Year.

Educational Background

• Juris Doctor, Law

  University of Sydney

• Doctor of Philosophy, English

  University of Sydney

  Thesis: Virtue and Kingship in Chaucer’s Knight’s Tale

  This dissertation examined Chaucer’s characterisation of Theseus in the Knight’s Tale in light of the burgeoning concept of “virtuous kingship” in academic discourse in France in the thirteenth century. The first part of the dissertation offered an original and detailed study of the way in which thirteenth-century theologians and moral writers extended Aristotle’s political ethic to create a notion of virtuous kingship in accordance with pre-existing views on the connection between political and religious morality. The second part applied this understanding in a literary and historical analysis of Chaucer’s Knight’s Tale.

• Bachelor of Arts, English & History, Honours

  University of Sydney

  Thesis: The Tragedy of Fortune: Boethian Consolation in Chaucer’s Tale of Troilus and Criseyde

  This dissertation researched the classical notion of tragedy and its adaptation by Boethius in his sixth-century text, The Consolation of Philosophy. The thesis then argued that a uniquely Boethian conception of tragedy informs the tragic narrative structure of Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde.

Interview

“The Bar, A UTS Law Students’ Society Podcast” 2020 interview with Bryce Douglas-Baker, Practising Barrister and Lecturer