David Frydrych joined the MSU College of Law as an associate professor in 2025. He teaches Trusts & Estates and Property. Previously, he was a senior lecturer (associate professor) at Monash University’s Faculty of Law in Melbourne Australia, teaching Trusts, Property, and Legal Philosophy.

David’s research is in rights, jurisprudence, and trusts. The jurisprudential scholarship focuses mostly on rights and legal realism. Palgrave published his first monograph, The Architecture of Rights: Models and Theories, in 2021. His articles have been published in top peer-reviewed journals across the Anglophonic world, including Law Quarterly Review, Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, Legal Theory, and The Canadian Journal of Law & Jurisprudence.

David’s trusts law research concerns trustees’ rights, commercial/business trusts, and international discretionary trust structures. LexisNexis Butterworths will be publishing his second monograph, Trustees’ Rights of Indemnity and Their Creditors’ Right of Subrogation, in 2025. He is also a full and academic (“TEP”) member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (“STEP”).

David was a postdoctoral fellow at both the National University of Singapore’s Faculty of Law and New York University’s School of Law. He earned a BA (Hons) and LLM from the University of Toronto, a J.D. from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York, and a DPhil (PhD) in Law from the University of Oxford (Somerville College). A Canadian, David is admitted to practice in New York and Victoria, Australia.

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DPhil. University of Oxford (Somerville College).
LLM. University of Toronto Faculty of Law.
J.D. Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law.
BA (Hons). University of Toronto (University College).