Professor Daintith, who received his law degree from Oxford University in 1963, specialises in public law and hasparticular interests in the relations between law and the economy, in regulation, and in oil and gas law.
He has held posts at the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Edinburgh, the University of Dundee (where he held the Chair of Public Law and founded the Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy), the European University Institute in Florence, and the University of London (where he was Director of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies and Dean of the University's School of Advanced Study). In addition to his appointment in Melbourne, he currently holds a professorial fellowhip at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies and visiting professorial appointments at the University of Western Australia and Sydney University.
His recent research has covered topics such as constitutional protection of economic rights, judicial review of contractual and administrative discretion, and discretion in the administration of offshore oil and gas law. His latest book is Finders Keepers? How the Law of Capture Shaped the World Oil Industry (RFF Press, Washington DC, 2010).
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