Julius Grower
Associate Professor of Law
Biography
Julius is an equity lawyer, with a specific interest in equity’s role within the law of obligations. His research usually focuses on the interaction between the law of fiduciaries and the laws of contract, tort, and unjust enrichment. He has published papers on agency, fiduciary misfeasance, and constructive trusts. His ongoing research relates to the maxim that “equity will not perfect an imperfect gift” (and several of the exceptions to it) and, more widely, to the nature of equity as a distinct part of our legal system.
Publications
GROWER J and Day W, ‘Credit Brokers and Fiduciaries, and Consequences for Lenders - Part 2’ (2025) 2 Butterworths Journal of International Banking and Financial Law 80
GROWER J and Day W, ‘Credit Brokers and Fiduciaries, and Consequences for Lenders - Part 1’ (2025) 2 Butterworths Journal of International Banking and Financial Law 75
GROWER J, ‘Imperfect Gifts and Two Separate Doctrines’ [2024] Private Client Business 1
GROWER J, ‘Time to Call Time on the Quistclose Trust’ (2023) 87 Conveyancer and Property Lawyer 109
GROWER J, ‘Explaining Informal Trusts of Land’ (2021) 85 Conveyancer and Property Lawyer 322
GROWER J, ‘Explaining the “Pallant v Morgan Equity”’ (2016) 80 Conveyancer and Property Lawyer 434
GROWER J, ‘Constructive Fraud in the Time of Hardwicke and Thurlow’ in D Foster and C Mitchell (eds.), Essays on the History of Equity (Hart Publishing 2026)
GROWER J, ‘Trusts’ in L Merrett, W Day and J O’Sullivan (eds.), The Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 at 25 (Bloomsbury Publishing 2026)
GROWER J, ‘Contract | Equity’ in W Day and J GROWER (eds.), Borderlines in Private Law (Oxford University Press 2024)
GROWER J, ‘Better Left to the Legislature? Notes on a Nagging Doubt over the Legal Recognition of Cryptoassets’ in S Agnew and M Smith (eds.), Law at the Cutting Edge: Essays in Honour of Sarah Worthington (Hart Publishing 2024)
GROWER J, ‘Equity and Administration’ [2018] Lloyd’s Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly 185 (review)
GROWER J, ‘Causation, Accounts of Profit, and the Content of the Fiduciary Duty of Loyalty’ (2025) 141 Law Quarterly Review 499 (case-note)
GROWER J, ‘The Tort of Bribery Bares its Teeth’ (2022) 138 Law Quarterly Review 15 (case-note)
Grower J, ‘A Gain Is As Good As A Loss ... To A Bound Fiduciary’ (2022) 81 Cambridge Law Journal 235 (case-note)
Grower J, ‘What Does It Mean To Be a Fiduciary?’ (2021) 80 Cambridge Law Journal 21 (case-note)
GROWER J, ‘The Overlap of Equity and Contract’ (2021) 137 Law Quarterly Review 573 (case-note)
GROWER J and Sherman O, ‘Equivalent to Contract? Confronting the Nature of the Duty Arising under Hedley Byrne v Heller’ (2019) 135 Law Quarterly Review 177 (case-note)
Grower J, ‘On the Relations between Agent and Principal: Angove’s Pty Ltd v Bailey’ (2018) 81 Modern Law Review 141 (case-note)