Jill Hunter

Professor

BA LLB UNSW, PhD Lond

Contact details

Room:

320 Law Building

Phone:

9385 2261

E-mail:

j.hunter@unsw.edu.au

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Brief overview

Jill Hunter has published widely on Australian evidence and procedural law, and also on human rights in the criminal process.

Jill Hunter's areas of teaching and research include police investigations, prosecutorial practice and the criminal trial, with a particular focus on comparative and socio-legal perspectives.She supervises post-graduate research students, teaches in the LLB and LLM programs and in the Criminology program in the Faculty of Arts and Social Science.

Courses taught

Areas of expertise

Jill Hunter's research and teaching interests centre on the law and practice relating to evidence and procedure, with a particular focus on criminal justice processes, especially from sociological, historical and comparative perspective.

Professional memberships and affiliations

Editorial Committee, International Journal Evidence & Proof (UK)

Member, Australian Law Reform Commission, Advisory Committee (Uniform Evidence Act) (2004-2005)

Jill is a reviewer for numerous academic journals and publishers. In 2011 she became an external examiner for the University of Hong Kong (Law of Evidence).

Grants

Jill Hunter's projects on juries and refugees are supported by grants from the Law & Justice Foundation of NSW.

P Roberts and JB Hunter, Society of Legal Scholars (2009), £10,000 grant for the SLS Annual Seminar (Nottingham, 2010)