Rate My Professor Jennifer Negus

Jennifer Negus is a Senior Lecturer at Curtin Law School within the Faculty of Business and Law at Curtin University, where she has taught since 2013. She instructs in criminal law, professional responsibility, and forensic trial advocacy for the Bachelor of Laws and Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice programs. Her research interests focus on criminal law, evidence, constitutional law, and government. Negus possesses a Bachelor of Commerce, Bachelor of Laws from Murdoch University, and a Master of Laws from the University of Western Australia.

Prior to her academic appointment, Negus practiced as a State Prosecutor for the Director of Public Prosecutions for Western Australia, managing trials and appeals involving serious indictable offences. She also acted as Research Assistant to The Hon. Robert Cock KC, Director of Public Prosecutions for Western Australia, during 2005-2006. Admitted to practice in 2007 and elected to the Western Australian Bar Association in 2022, she currently serves as a barrister at Murray Chambers. Her practice encompasses white collar crime, corporate crime and misconduct, civil litigation, public prosecutions, commissions, inquests and inquiries, corporate and commercial disputes, criminal matters, employment law, breach of confidence, restraint of trade, taxation, professional negligence, vocational regulation, torts, wills and estates, and appeals. Negus has lectured in constitutional law at The University of Notre Dame Australia and delivers invited presentations on legal topics including settlement offers and cost considerations.

Negus has contributed peer-reviewed publications to legal scholarship. Key works include 'Admissibility of Confession Evidence: Principles of Hearsay and the Rule of Voluntariness' in The International Journal of Evidence & Proof (2021) and 'The Implications of Uncertainty in the Law of Criminal Causation for the One-Punch Homicide Offence in Western Australia' in Bond Law Review 27(1): 1-21 (2014). She supports experiential learning through involvement in Curtin Law School's legal clinics and internships.