Nicole Moreham

Nicole Anna Moreham is a professor of law at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. Her research focuses on media law and tort law, and she has a particular interest in privacy. She clerked at the New Zealand Court of Appeal and has taught at the University of Cambridge and Victoria University of Wellington. She was the first legal scholar in New Zealand to be awarded a Rutherford Discovery Fellowship. In 2025 Moreham was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi.

Academic career

Moreham completed a Bachelor of Laws at the University of Canterbury, and clerked for the New Zealand Court of Appeal.

Moreham has a Master of Laws and a PhD from the University of Cambridge. Moreham co-authored the third edition of The Law of Privacy and The Media with Mark Warby.

In 2025 Moreham was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi "for being a leading commentator on the law of privacy".

Selected works