Jennifer Moore

Biography

 Dr Jennifer Moore is an Affiliate Senior Research Fellow in Law and a Senior Lecturer in Preventive and Social Medicine. Dr Moore recently completed the ground-breaking empirical project about New Zealand coroners' recommendations. The report can be downloaded from the New Zealand Law Foundation website. Dr Moore is the 2015-2016 NZ Harkness Fellow in Health Care Policy and Practice. She is undertaking empirical health law research at Stanford Law School from August 2015-September 2016. Dr Moore teaches Research Methods and Health Policy in the Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, the Faculty of Medicine, the University of Otago. She was admitted as a barrister and solicitor of the New Zealand High Court in December 2010. She serves on the NZ Law Society Health Law and Wellington Medico-legal Society Committees. Jennifer previously served as a legal and policy advisor to the NZ Law Commissioners and worked as a Research Fellow in Otago University’s Centre for Law and Policy in Emerging Technologies. Prior to joining Otago University’s Law Faculty, she was a Lecturer in the Public Health Department, Faculty of Medicine, University of Otago.Jennifer has been an academic researcher and lecturer in New Zealand, Australia and Israel (Hebrew University). She was a Lecturer in the Health Sciences Department, Faculty of Medicine, Monash University, Australia. Jennifer graduated as the top ranked student in law (LLB) in 2010 & arts in 1999. She won 17 academic scholarships and prizes from 1999-2010 including the Brookers Prize in Jurisprudence, the Ryoichi Sasakawa Young Leader's Scholarship and a Melbourne Research Scholarship for her PhD in Public Health at the University of Melbourne.

Research Interest

  Health law and policy, Coronial law, Torts (particularly medical malpractice & the privacy tort), Public health law, Law science and technology, Empirical and socio-legal research.