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Rate My Professor Jennifer Beard

University of Melbourne

#4,462 worldwide#4,350 in Australia

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4.08/20/2025

Inspires students to reach new heights.

4.05/21/2025

Encourages students to think creatively.

5.03/31/2025

Creates a positive and motivating atmosphere.

4.02/27/2025

Challenges students to grow and excel.

5.02/4/2025

Great Professor!

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About Jennifer

Associate Professor Jennifer Beard is a scholar at Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne, specializing in philosophically oriented historical research within the field of law. She holds a BA (Hons) and LLB (Hons) from the Australian National University, an LLM from the London School of Economics, and a PhD from the University of Melbourne. Her research focuses on the public aspects of charity law over time, links between English charity law and political authority, political advocacy of charities, the relationship between law and charity, and the role of the not-for-profit sector in law and development. Additional interests include the relationship between public and private power, law and society, law, imperialism, and development, theories of the State, political authority, and the role of law in political power. She supervises doctoral candidates in public law, international law and development, and charity law, and teaches Administrative Law in the Melbourne JD program.