Dr. Joshua Getzler, is working as a Reader in Legal History at St. Hugh’s College, University of Oxford since 1993. He is currently working on the duties of investment agents in financial markets, on the legal and economic structure of debt and equity, on the tortious and contractual liability of entities, and on theories of co-ownership and fiduciary duty.

His first degrees in law and history were taken in Australia, and his doctorate in Oxford. He was appointed Conjoint Professor of Law at the University of New South Wales in 2007.
 
His publications include J S Getzler, A History of Water Rights at Common Law (OUP 2004), Duty of Care' in P Birks and A Pretto (eds), J S Getzler, Breach of Trust (Hart Publishing 2002), J S Getzler, 'Law, history and the social sciences: intellectual traditions of late 19th and early 20th century Europe' in A Lewis and M Lobban (eds), Law and History: Current Legal Issues(OUP 2003), J S Getzler, 'Am I My Beneficiary's Keeper? Fusion and Loss-Based Fiduciary Remedies' in S Degeling and J Edelman (eds), Equity in Commercial Law (Thomson (LBC), Sydney 2005).