Dr David Frydrych is a senior lecturer at Monash University's Faculty of Law, researching in jurisprudence and trusts law. The jurisprudential scholarship to date mostly focuses upon rights and legal realism. Palgrave published his first monograph, The Architecture of Rights: Models and Theories, in 2021. David also analyses international discretionary trust and company structures.

Before joining Monash, David was a postdoctoral fellow at both the National University of Singapore’s Faculty of Law and the New York University School of Law. A Canadian, he is admitted to practice in Victoria and New York.