Biographical entry

Ford, Harold (1920 - 2012)

Order of Australia

Born
14 -10-1920
Coburg, Victoria, Australia
Died
27-9-2012
Victoria, Australia
Occupation
Lecturer and Professor and Dean of Melbourne Law School

Summary

7th Dean of the University of Melbourne, Faculty of Law, 1964 and 1967-73.

Chronology

1949 - 1960
Period of employment at Melbourne Law School
1962 - 1984

Additional Notes

Emeritus Professor Harold Arthur John Ford AM joined MLS as a Senior Lecturer in 1949, the fifth member of the Law School's full-time academic staff. In 1960 Professor Ford was appointed Robert Garran Professor of Law in the Australian National University and Foundation Dean of the Faculty of Law. He returned to Melbourne in 1962 on appointment as Professor of Commercial Law. His main teaching contributions were in trusts and legal persons/company law. Professor Ford became Dean in 1964 (in Sir Zelman Cowen's absence) and again from 1967 to 1973.

Publications

Books

  • Baxt, R; H.A.J. Ford [and] G.J. Samuel, An introduction to the securities industry acts, Butterworths, Sydney, 1977, 232 pp. Details
  • Ford, H.A.J., Unincorporated non-profit associations : their property and their liability, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1959, 151 pp. Details
  • Ford, H.A.J., Principles of the law of death duty with special reference to the law of Commonwealth estate duty, New South Wales death duty and Victorian probate duty, Law Book Co., Sydney, 1971. Details
  • Ford, H.A.J., Principles of company law, 2nd edn, Butterworths, Sydney, 1974, 552 pp. Details
  • Ford, H.A.J., Principles of company law, Butterworths, Sydney, 1974, 503 pp. Details
  • Ford, H.A.J., A guide to the national scheme and revised Companies Bill, 1980, Butterworths, Sydney, 1980. Details
  • Ford, H.A.J., Principles of company law, 3rd edn, Butterworths, Sydney, 1982, 650 pp. Details
  • Ford, H.A.J., Guide to the national companies and securities scheme, Butterworths, Sydney, 1982, 406 pp. Details
  • Ford, H.A.J., Principles of the law of trusts, Law Book Co., Sydney, 1983, 1055 pp. Details
  • Ford, H.A.J., Guide to the national companies and securities scheme, 2nd edn, Butterworths, Sydney, 1984. Details
  • Ford, H.A.J., Australian business dictionary, Butterworths, Sydney, 1985, 209 pp. Details
  • Ford, H; Hardingham, I; Neave, M, The law of wills , Law Book Company, Sydney, 1977, 295 pp. Details
  • Ford, H; Hardingham, I; Neave, M, Wills and intestacy in Australia and New Zealand, M.A. Neave, H.A.J. Ford, Law Book Company, Sydney, 1983, 518 pp. Details
  • Hardingham, I, Cases on trusts, 5th edn, Law Book Company, Sydney, 1984, 925 pp. Details

Book Sections

  • Ford, H.A.J., 'L'imposition du transfert des entreprises familiales par succession ou par donation = The taxation of transfers of family-held enterprises on death or inter vivos.', in Cahiers de droit fiscal international, vol. 44a, Kluwer Law Internaional, Netherlands, 1979, pp. 173-187. Details

Edited Books

  • Ford, H.A.J. (ed.), Cases on trusts, Law Book Co., Sydney, 1959, 794 pp. Details
  • Ford, H.A.J. (ed.), Cases on trusts, 2nd edn, Law Book Co., Sydney, 1966. Details
  • Ford, H.A.J. (ed.), Cases on trusts, 3rd edn, Law Book Co., Sydney, 1974, 824 pp. Details
  • Ford, H.A.J. (ed.), Cases on trusts, 4th edn, Law Book Co., Sydney, 1979, 789 pp. Details

Journal Articles

  • Ford, H.A.J., 'Dispositions of Property to Unincorporated Non-Profit Associations', Michigan Law Review, vol. 55, no. 2, 1956, p. 235. Details
  • Ford, H.A.J., 'Dispositions of Property to Unincorporated Non-Profit Associations', Michigan Law Review, vol. 55, no. 1, 1956, p. 67. Details
  • Ford, H.A.J., 'Taxation affecting trusts', Melbourne University Law Review, vol. 1, 1959. Details