Jeremy Gans is an Associate Professor in Melbourne Law School, where he researches and teaches across all aspects of the criminal justice system. He holds higher degrees in both law and criminology. In 2007, he was appointed as the Human Rights Adviser to the Victorian Parliament's Scrutiny of Acts and Regulations Committee.
His early research focused on fact-finding in sexual assault trials, the subject of his doctoral thesis and a number of published articles, and criminal investigation, especially the technique of DNA identification. He is the co-author of an evidence law text and a forthcoming human rights text, and is currently working on a criminal law treatise. He has contributed to public debate on criminal justice in a number of forums. He publishes a running commentary on Victoria's Charter of Human Rights and Responsbilities at charterblog.wordpress.com.
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