Appointment at the University of Sydney Law School

I am pleased to have been appointed to a Research Affiliate position at the University of Sydney Law School, in the Ross Parsons Centre for Commercial, Corporate and Taxation Law, working with Professor Jason Harris and others. 

Professor Ross Parsons taught me income tax law, as a 4th year elective, in my LLB at Sydney Law School.   I taught insolvency law at the Law School at a masters level from 2000-2002 [approx]. 

My research interests include personal and corporate insolvency, competition law and regulation, tax, and crime and criminology. 

My Law School contact details are:

• e michaelhugh.murray@sydney.edu.au 
• m 0402 248 353
• The University of Sydney Law School Level 4, The New Law Building F10 | The University of Sydney | NSW | 2006.

My main publications are:

• Keay’s Insolvency (with Professor Jason Harris), Thomson Reuters, 11th ed, 2022
• Annotated Bankruptcy Act, 10th ed, LexisNexis, 2024
• Ford’s Corporations Law (with Professor Ian Ramsay AO), LexisNexis online
• Australian Business Law (with the Hon Kevin Lindgren KC), LexisNexis online
• Bankruptcy Law and Practice, LexisNexis online.

Apart from Australia, I have presented at or attended insolvency conferences or meetings in England, Brussels, San Francisco, Vietnam, China, India, New Zealand, Japan and San Diego, and, in May 2025, Barcelona.

I am an elected fellow and former director of the Australian Academy of Law. 

Michael Murray LLB Dip Crim (Syd) FAAL