Dr Adam Waldman
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Dr Adam Waldman

PhD LLB (Hons) BEc (Sydney)
Lecturer
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9351 0276
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F10 - Law School (Camperdown)
The University of Sydney
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Dr Adam Waldman

Adam Waldman is a Lecturer at the University of Sydney Law School. His field of research is private and commercial law. Much of his work to-date has focused on the Personal Property Securities Act 2009 (Cth), which was the subject of his doctoral thesis and remains an area of particular interest.

Adam has taught in Equity, Property and Commercial Law, Contracts, Torts and Contracts II, and Legal Reasoning. He is also a lecturer for the Legal Profession Admission Board's Diploma in Law, where he lectures in Commercial Transactions.

Prior to academia, Adam worked at a boutique law firm, as a research assistant to counsel in chambers and as a research assistant to a former Supreme Court judge.

  • Private law
  • Commercial law
  • The law of secured transactions
  • The relationship between statute and the common law
  • Equity
  • Property and Commercial Law
  • Contracts
  • Torts and Contracts II
  • Legal Reasoning
  • Solicitor, Supreme Court of New South Wales
  • Member, Commercial Law Association
  • Member, Banking and Financial Services Law Association
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Publications

Journals

  • Waldman, A. (2024). Unperfected PPSA Security Interests in Insolvency Part I: The Commercial Significance & Costs of the Vesting Provisions. Journal of Banking and Finance Law and Practice, 34(3), 195-207.
  • Waldman, A. (2024). Unperfected PPSA Security Interests in Insolvency Part II: The Policy Objectives of the Vesting Provisions. Journal of Banking and Finance Law and Practice, 34(4), 211-230.
  • Waldman, A., Gvozdenovic, M. (2023). Development of the Common Law by Analogy to Statute. Australian Law Journal, 97(12), 912-934.

Conferences

  • Waldman, A. (2023). Unperfected PPSA Security Interests in Insolvency: Why We Should Delete s 267. Banking and Financial Services Law Association Academic Committee Symposium, New Zealand: Presentation.
  • Waldman, A. (2022). The relationship between equity and statute. University of Western Australia Private and Commercial Law Annual Conference, Perth, WA: Presentation.

2024

  • Waldman, A. (2024). Unperfected PPSA Security Interests in Insolvency Part I: The Commercial Significance & Costs of the Vesting Provisions. Journal of Banking and Finance Law and Practice, 34(3), 195-207.
  • Waldman, A. (2024). Unperfected PPSA Security Interests in Insolvency Part II: The Policy Objectives of the Vesting Provisions. Journal of Banking and Finance Law and Practice, 34(4), 211-230.

2023

  • Waldman, A., Gvozdenovic, M. (2023). Development of the Common Law by Analogy to Statute. Australian Law Journal, 97(12), 912-934.
  • Waldman, A. (2023). Unperfected PPSA Security Interests in Insolvency: Why We Should Delete s 267. Banking and Financial Services Law Association Academic Committee Symposium, New Zealand: Presentation.

2022

  • Waldman, A. (2022). Commercial Landlords & Uncollected Goods. Australian Property Law Journal, 30(2), 86-107.
  • Waldman, A. (2022). The relationship between equity and statute. University of Western Australia Private and Commercial Law Annual Conference, Perth, WA: Presentation.

2021

  • Waldman, A. (2021). Resolving Priority Competitions between PPSA Security Interests and Non-PPS Interests. UNSW Law Journal, 44(2), 811-849. [More Information]

2020

  • Waldman, A. (2020). Conceptual Models of the PPSA Security Interest: Moving Beyond the Unitary/Minimalist Dichotomy. Journal of Banking and Finance Law and Practice, 31(3), 231-259.