Professor Ross Grantham has been appointed the new Head of the TC Beirne School of Law at The University of Queensland.
Professor Grantham is an internationally recognised scholar who first joined UQ in 2004 as Professor of Commercial Law and was subsequently appointed Deputy Head of School.
Professor Grantham is a graduate of Auckland and Oxford Universities, and The University of Queensland where he was recently awarded the degree of Doctor of Laws. He is also admitted as a Barrister and Solicitor of the High Court of New Zealand.
Professor Grantham said he was looking forward to meeting the challenges that lay ahead in leading one of Australia’s premier law schools.
“The opportunity to lead a law school as prestigious as the TC Beirne School of Law is one I am enormously excited about,” he said.
“We now have at UQ just about everything we need to be an outstanding law school — a very able and talented group of staff, gifted students, a fantastically supportive local profession, and a Vice-Chancellor committed to our success. The challenge for me is to make the most of these assets.”
Before coming to Queensland, Professor Grantham held positions as Professor of Commercial Law and Head of Department at the University of Auckland and Deputy Director of the Research Centre for Business Law.
He is the author of a number of monographs and casebooks, numerous journal articles, and editor of four collections of scholarly essays. He is a member of the editorial board of The Company Lawyer and the Journal of Corporate Law Studies and is the Australian editor of the Journal of Business Law.
Professor Grantham replaces Professor Charles Rickett as Head of School.
Media: Emma Young (07 3346 9350 or e.young@law.uq.edu.au).
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