Rate My Professor Jennifer Morgan

Professor Jenny Morgan has been a faculty member at Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne, since 1988, where she has taught Criminal Law, Anti-Discrimination Law, Feminist Legal Theory, and the introductory law course in the JD program entitled Legal Method and Reasoning. She holds a BA (Hons) from the University of Sydney, an LLB from the University of New South Wales, and an LLM from Yale University. Morgan served as Dean of Melbourne Law School from July 2017 until January 2018 and as Deputy Dean between 2003 and 2007. Her research specializations include criminal law, violence against women, homicide law, feminist legal theory, and law reform, with focused work on homicide law reform—particularly the reform of the law of provocation—and media reporting of violence against women. She is affiliated with the Health Law and Ethics Unit at Melbourne Law School, contributing to research in public and global health.

Morgan has held prominent appointments such as a member of the Social Security Appeals Tribunal, a Commissioner with the Australian Law Reform Commission on their Equality Before the Law inquiry, and a Hearing Commissioner with the Australian Law Reform Commission. She was a founding Director of the Victorian Sentencing Advisory Council and a consultant to the Victorian Law Reform Commission on their Homicide Law Reform reference. She has served on the management committees of community organizations including Women’s Legal Service, CASA House, and Women’s Domestic Violence Crisis Service, as well as numerous university committees. In 2018, she received the Patricia Grimshaw Award for Mentor Excellence. Key publications include the book The Hidden Gender of Law, co-authored with Reg Graycar (Federation Press, 1990; second edition 2002); ‘Changing Media Coverage of Violence Against Women: Changing Sourcing Practices’, Journalism Studies (2017); ‘Law Reform and the Media: (Re)figuring Responsibility’ in Homicide Law Reform in Victoria: Retrospect and Prospect (Federation Press, 2015); ‘Homicide Law Reform and Gender: Configuring Violence’, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology (2012); and ‘On the Hidden Gender of Law: A Public Talk’, Australian Feminist Law Journal (2015).