Jenny Morgan is a professor at Melbourne Law School, the University of Melbourne, where she was Deputy Dean for four years. She is the co-author (with Reg Graycar) of The Hidden Gender of Law, the first edition of which was published in 1990 (and the second in 2002). She has published work on sexual harassment, homicide law, reproduction issues, understandings of equality, law reform, sexual assault and domestic violence, most recently on the representation of violence against women in the print media. 

She has been a part-time member of the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, the Social Security Appeals Tribunal and a commissioner with the Australian Law Reform Commission. She was a member of the Victorian Government’s Sentencing Advisory Council from 2003 until the middle of 2013, and is currently a member of the Police Registration and Services Board.