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Rate My Professor Ying Liew

University of Melbourne

#4,749 worldwide#4,637 in Australia

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4.08/20/2025

Inspires students to aim high and excel.

4.05/21/2025

A master at fostering understanding.

5.03/31/2025

Helps students see the value in learning.

4.02/27/2025

Makes even dry topics interesting.

5.02/4/2025

Great Professor!

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About Ying

Professor Ying Liew teaches and researches private law at Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne, specialising in the law of equity and trusts, the law of assignment, contracts, and remedies. His research has been published in leading international journals, including the Cambridge Law Journal, Law Quarterly Review, Modern Law Review, Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, Sydney Law Review, UNSW Law Journal, and Melbourne University Law Review, and in several major edited collections. His work has been cited in the UK Supreme Court, the Federal Court of Australia, the Supreme Courts of India and Sri Lanka, and by various courts in New Zealand, Hong Kong, Singapore, Ireland, Malaysia, and the Cayman Islands. Ying Liew is the author of the monograph Rationalising Constructive Trusts (Hart Publishing 2017), and co-author of the treatise Guest and Liew on the Law of Assignment (fifth edition, Sweet & Maxwell 2024). He is the founder and General Editor of the Asia-Pacific Trusts Law, Asia-Pacific Contracts Law, and Asia-Pacific Property Law book series (Hart Publishing). Three volumes in the Trusts series have been published: Theory and Practice in Context (2021, with Matthew Harding); Adaptation in Context (2022, with Ying-Chieh Wu); Boundaries in Context (2024, with Masayuki Tamaruya). The first volumes of the Contracts series (The Digital World in Context, 2026, with Lusina Ho) and the Property series (Intangibles in Context, 2026, with Kelvin Low) are forthcoming.