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Dr Duncan Wallace is a Lecturer in the Faculty of Law at Monash University. With a multidisciplinary background in law, philosophy, and economics, he earned his Doctor of Philosophy from Monash University in 2024, receiving the prestigious Mollie Holman Award for his doctoral thesis, The Organic Theory of the Corporation, which is scheduled for publication as a book by Cambridge University Press in 2026. He previously obtained a Juris Doctor in 2017 and a Postgraduate Diploma in Economics in 2012 from the University of Melbourne, as well as a Bachelor of Arts with Honours in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics from the University of Manchester in 2011. Before his academic appointment at Monash, Wallace worked in the co-operatives and mutuals sector, serving as a consultant and in full-time roles, including Education Officer at the Business Council of Co-operatives and Mutuals from 2017 to 2018. His early academic roles included Teaching Associate in Trusts Law and Corporations Law at Monash Law School from 2019 and Tutor in Aboriginal Cultural Studies at the University of Melbourne from 2016 to 2017.

Wallace's research examines social groups, focusing on their ontological nature, recognition in law, and roles in the economy and society. His scholarly interests encompass corporations law, trusts law, tort law, criminal law, comparative law, corporate theory, legal history, social ontology, jurisprudence, sociology, evolutionary psychology, and political philosophy, with a particular emphasis on co-operatives law and policy. He teaches Trusts Law and Corporations Law in both the LLB and JD degrees. Notable publications include "The Reality of Shareholder Ownership: For-Profit Corporations as Slaves" in the University of New South Wales Law Journal (2024), a book review titled "The Limits and Logic of Agency Theory in Company Law, by Jonathan Hardman" in the Journal of Corporate Law Studies (2025), and "Australian Platform Cooperative Case Study: The Open Food Network" forthcoming in 2026. Wallace serves as a peer reviewer for The Sydney Law Review and is a member of the International Co-operatives Alliance’s Young & Emerging Scholars Network on Cooperative Studies. He has presented his work at international workshops, such as the "Genealogies of Corporate Morality" at St Andrews Business School, and engaged in public discourse through pieces like "Is a Corporation a Slave? Many Philosophers Think So" (2025). As an established consultant on co-operatives law and policy, he has authored sector-leading reports and submissions.