About Bryce Douglas-Baker
Professional Roles
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Barrister
Self-employed, Fourth Floor Selborne Chambers (previously at Blackstone Chambers)
Called to the Bar — April 2015
Academic Positions
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Principal Lecturer and Unit of Study Co-ordinator
University of Sydney, Law Extension Committee
Subjects taught: Commercial Transactions, and Practice & Procedure
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Casual Academic – Lecturer and Tutor
University of Technology Sydney
Subjects currently taught: Equity and Trusts, Ethics for the UTS Bar Preparation Program.
Previously taught: Commercial Equity, Civil Procedure and Evidence.
Professional Experience
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Solicitor
Atanaskovic Hartnell
Practice area: Mergers and Acquisitions, Corporate and Commercial Law.
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Solicitor
Norton White
Practice area: Transport Law (Aviation), Corporate and Commercial Law.
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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.
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Casual Academic – Lecturer and Unit of Study Co-ordinator
Australian Catholic University
Subject taught: Interpersonal Communication.
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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
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Citation for Lecturing
Awarded for outstanding lecturing in Law by the University of Sydney’s Law Extension Committee in August 2023.
Educational Awards & Honours
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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.
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University of Sydney Graduate Program Entry Award – Law
Awarded for academic excellence.
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University of Sydney Postgraduate Award – PhD
Awarded for academic excellence.
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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
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Juris Doctor, Law
University of Sydney -
Doctor of Philosophy, English
University of SydneyThesis: 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.
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Bachelor of Arts, English & History, Honours
University of SydneyThesis: 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