Lucas Clover Alcolea is a lecturer at the Monash University, Faculty of Law where he teaches remedies and trusts. He was previously a lecturer at the University of Otago, Faculty of Law, and a postdoctoral associate in the Scheinman Institute on Conflict Resolution at Cornell University.  Lucas completed his undergraduate law degree at Aberdeen, followed by an LLM at Edinburgh, and a DCL at McGill. As a result of having studied and worked in multiple jurisdictions his work also has an inherently comparative slant drawing upon legal sources from throughout the Commonwealth and beyond.

He has published articles in the McGill Journal of Dispute Resolution, the Australian Bar Review, the Australian Law Journal, the Common Law World Review, Trust Law International, the Journal of International Dispute Settlement, the ACTEC Law Journal, Arbitration International, the Chinese Journal of International Law, the Journal of Equity, the New Zealand Universities Law Review, and the Alberta Law Review among others. His doctoral thesis was published in Spring 2022 by Edward Elgar Publishing as ‘The Arbitration of Trust Disputes’. His main areas of interest are equity and trusts, property, dispute resolution, legal history (with a particular focus on the common law), international investment law, and legal theory. His work has been cited by the New Zealand Court of Appeal.