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Professor Ross Grantham is Professor of Commercial Law at the TC Beirne School of Law, University of Queensland. He joined the university in 2004 as Professor of Commercial Law, subsequently serving as Deputy Head of School and Head of the TC Beirne School of Law from 2008. Prior to his appointment at Queensland, Grantham held the position of Professor of Commercial Law and Head of Department at the University of Auckland, along with serving as Deputy Director of the Research Centre for Business Law. He holds a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Auckland (1984), a Master of Laws with Honours from the same institution (1987), a Bachelor of Civil Law from Oxford University (1994), and was awarded a Doctor of Laws by the University of Queensland in 2007 for his outstanding contributions to the law of restitution and corporate law. Grantham is admitted as a Barrister and Solicitor of the High Court of New Zealand (1985) and is an affiliate of the Australian Centre for Private Law.

Professor Grantham's principal research interests encompass corporate governance, the duties of company directors, the theoretical nature of the company and its integration into the general legal system, developments in the law of unjust enrichment and restitution—particularly the interface between restitution and property law—and the theoretical and philosophical foundations of private law. He has published extensively in leading international journals and authored key monographs including Unjust Enrichment (with Kit Barker; 2008, 2nd ed. 2017, 3rd ed. 2024), The Law and Practice of Corporate Governance (2nd ed. 2022), and People, Planet, and Profits: Re-purposing the Company (2021). Grantham has edited significant collections such as Charity Law and Governance: Private Purpose, Public Benefit and the Regulatory Strategy (with Kim D. Weinert; 2025), Private Law and Power (2017), and Private Law in the 21st Century (with Kit Barker and Karen Fairweather; 2017). As a member of the editorial boards of several leading international journals, his doctrinal scholarship pursues coherence in private law through integrative analysis of cases, statutes, historical development, and policy objectives, profoundly influencing judicial decisions, academic discourse, law reform, teaching, and professional practice across Commonwealth jurisdictions.