Professor Jodi Gardner 

DPhil

Consumer Protection

Oxford

United Kingdom

Law

Private Law, Vulnerability, Inequality, Social Policy

Professor Jodi Gardner is the Brian Coote Chair in Private Law at the University of Auckland. She studied a Bachelor of Laws and Bachelor of international relations at Griffith University before using her John Monash scholarship to complete a DPhil in Consumer Protection at the University of Oxford. Prior to her studies and academic positions, Jodi's qualified as a solicitor specialising in consumer protection. She has held positions at the University of Cambridge, and a College Lecturer at St John's College, Columbia Law School and the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, and is currently a Senior Research Fellow at the National University of Singapore. Jodi's research investigates policy development towards a fair and transparent lending environment, and suitable regulatory responses to irresponsible lending. She specifically focuses on the relationship with social policy and the private law relating to banking and finance