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Dr Bant graduated from The University of Western Australia in 1992 with joint Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws (hons) degrees. She joined Freehills, Perth, as a solicitor and specialised in Commercial Litigation for a number of years, before accepting a place at The University of Oxford reading for a Bachelor of Civil Laws degree in 1996. She was awarded a Rotary Foundation Ambassadorial Scholarship for that year. She graduated from Oxford with distinction in 1997 and returned to Freehills, before joining The University of Western Australia Law School as a Lecturer in 1998. She taught and published in the areas of Unjust Enrichment and Restitution law, Equity, Trusts, and Property and was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2001. She then returned to Oxford in 2005 as a Clarendon Scholar to read for a D Phil (law). She successfully defended her thesis entitled The Change of Position Defence in early 2008 and returned to Melbourne in June of that year to take up an appointment as Associate Professor with the Melbourne Law School.

Associate Professor Bant teaches Remedies (LLB) and Equity and Commerce (Melbourne Law Masters) at the Melbourne Law School. Her other teaching and research interests include Unjust Enrichment and Restitution Law, Equity, Trusts, Property, Contract and Tort.

Associate Professor Bant is currently writing in the fields of the principles of proprietary remedies, in particular the interaction between, criteria for the award of, and operation of imposed trusts, proprietary powers and liens.