Eu-Jin Teo

Senior Lecturer, The University of Melbourne
Eu-Jin is a prize-winning researcher and an academic lawyer with practical experience in the areas of taxation law, commercial law and the law as it relates to government. He has practised at what is now a 'Silver Circle' firm, and has been consulted by members of the Bar (including His Majesty’s Counsel for the State of Victoria) in relation to various matters, in addition to having addressed the Full Court of the Supreme Court of Victoria as Counsel.

Eu-Jin is a leader in the legal profession as a former Chair of the Administrative Review and Constitutional Law Committee at the Law Institute of Victoria, and as a member of the Administrative Law Specialist Accreditation Advisory Committee, Technology and Innovation Section Executive Committee, Taxation and Revenue Committee, State Taxes Committee and Executive Committee of the Administrative Law and Human Rights Section at the Institute, the peak professional body for Victorian lawyers which provides input to the Federal and Victorian governments on the initiation, design and implementation of various policies.

A Fellow of the Taxation Institute of Australia, Chartered Tax Adviser and an Accredited Specialist in Administrative Law, Eu-Jin is a former Editor of one of Australia’s leading refereed tax journals (the Journal of Australian Taxation, which appears to have been cited by courts in Australia more than any other Australian tax journal) and he has sat on the Editorial Board of the Melbourne University Law Review, Australia’s most cited law journal and the world’s second most cited general law journal published outside the United States of America. Eu-Jin has also been an external editor for the Law Institute Journal (the Victorian legal profession’s journal of record), and was commissioned by publisher LexisNexis Butterworths to update the ‘Income and Assessable Income’ chapter in the Taxation and Revenue title of the encyclopaedia Halsbury’s Laws of Australia, one of the two foremost legal encyclopaedias in Australia.

With formal qualifications in university teaching, Eu-Jin has taught in Australia and overseas and at the undergraduate and postgraduate level. He created and coordinated the Australian Constitutional Law course that was offered by the College of Law of England and Wales to overseas lawyers seeking admission in Australia, and is an Associate External Academic Advisor to the School of Law at the City University of Hong Kong and an Adjunct Lecturer in Business Law and Taxation at Monash University. In addition to being a multiple recipient of the Dean's Certificate for Excellence in Graduate Teaching (or its equivalent), Eu-Jin was the first to introduce the Research Skill Development framework to teaching at The University of Melbourne, a framework that describes and informs the coherent, explicit and efficient development of student research skills. He has been described by students as ‘a great teacher’ and ‘one of the best lecturers in the faculty’.

Eu-Jin has published widely in peer-reviewed journals (a number of which are A*-ranked), and has had papers presented at numerous refereed academic conferences domestically and overseas. He has also been successful in obtaining faculty and nationally competitive research funds, and has appeared on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Radio Melbourne and Lateline programmes. Eu-Jin's research has been cited during proceedings in Parliament, by the highest court in Australia, by other academics (locally and overseas, including in The Routledge Companion to Financial Accounting Theory and The Routledge Companion to Accounting History), by The Australian Financial Review, and by the late Justice Graham Hill, who was widely regarded as the leading tax judge in Australia before his Honour's passing.