Jessica Palmer

Jessica Palmer is a New Zealand academic lawyer, as of 2019 is a full professor and dean of law at the University of Otago. She is also Pro-Vice-Chancellor of the Division of Humanities.

Academic career After an undergraduate degree at the University of Auckland Palmer completed LLM's at the University of Cambridge and the University of Auckland, before rising to professor and dean of law at the University of Otago, replacing Mark Henaghan. In 2020 Palmer was appointed Pro-Vice-Chancellor of the Humanities Division.

Palmer is a Chartered Member of the Institute of Directors.

Awards In 2004, Palmer received the Ethel Benjamin Prize.

Selected works Law and Policy in Modern Family Finance: Property Division in the 21st Century Civil Remedies in New Zealand – 2nd edition