Jodi Gardner

Jodi Gardner is an Australian–New Zealand legal academic, and is a full professor at the University of Auckland, and is the inaugural Brian Coote Chair in Private Law. She has previously lectured at the universities of Oxford and Cambridge.

Academic career

Gardner was born in Darwin, and holds a Bachelor of Laws and Bachelor of International Relations from Griffith University. She worked as a consumer advocate at a community law centre in Australia, and as a solicitor in litigation and banking. She lectured in law at Oxford at Corpus Christi College, and at the University of Cambridge, where she is a Fellow of St John's College. Gardner joined the faculty of the University of Auckland in April 2023, relocating her family of seven from the UK.

Gardner has been a visiting fellow at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of International and Public Policy, Columbia Law School, the Max Planck institute for Comparative and International Private Law, and at the University of Birmingham. She holds a position as an adjunct research fellow at the National University of Singapore.

Selected works