Rate My Professor Jeremy Gans

Professor Jeremy Gans is a Professor in Melbourne Law School at the University of Melbourne, where he researches and teaches across all aspects of the criminal justice system. He holds higher degrees in both law and criminology. His early research examined fact-finding in sexual assault trials, which was the subject of his doctoral thesis and a number of published articles, and criminal investigation, particularly the technique of DNA identification. Gans is the author of the leading criminal law treatise Modern Criminal Law of Australia, published by Cambridge University Press in 2012 with a second edition in 2016. He is also a co-author of key texts on evidence law, including Uniform Evidence (Oxford University Press, multiple editions with Andrew Palmer and Andrew Roberts, latest fourth edition) and on criminal process rights, Criminal Process and Human Rights (Federation Press, 2011, with Terese Henning, Jill Hunter, and Kate Warner). More recently, he has authored accessible books on intriguing legal cases, such as The Ouija Board Jurors (2020), exploring juror misconduct, and Guilty Pigs: The Weird and Wonderful History of Animal Law (La Trobe University Press, 2021, with Katy Barnett).