Rate My Professor Sally Wheeler

Professor Sally Wheeler joined the Australian National University in early 2018 as Dean of the College of Law. During her time at ANU she also held the positions of Deputy Vice-Chancellor (International Strategy) and Deputy Vice-Chancellor (International and Corporate). She holds a BA from Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, an MA from Pembroke College, Oxford, and a DPhil from Pembroke College and the Oxford Centre for Socio-Legal Studies. Prior to ANU, Wheeler held a Chair in Corporate Law at Queen’s University Belfast, where she served as Head of the School of Law, Interim Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, Dean of Internationalisation, and Interim Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research and Enterprise. She previously held positions at the University of Nottingham, Brunel University, Keele University, the University of Manchester, Birkbeck, and the University of Leeds, where she was appointed to her first chair in 1994.

Wheeler’s research focuses on socio-legal studies, particularly in business and contract law, corporate governance, and pensions governance. She is the author of Reservation of Title Clauses (1991) and Corporations and the Third Way (2002), co-author of several works including Contract Law: Cases, Materials and Commentary (1994) and Disqualification of Directors (1996), and has edited or co-edited nine additional books. She has published over seventy articles and book chapters and co-edits the Socio-Legal and Corporate and Financial Law series for Palgrave Macmillan. Wheeler was awarded an OBE in 2017 for services to higher education in Northern Ireland. She is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (elected 2011), the Royal Irish Academy (elected 2013), and the Australian Academy of Law (elected 2018). She has served on editorial boards including the Journal of Law and Society and Law and Critique, and held leadership roles such as Chair of the Socio-Legal Studies Association. Wheeler left ANU in late 2023.