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.

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. Her thesis was on privacy and common law, and was supervised by Tony Weir. She lectured in contract and administrative law at Cambridge, and was a Fellow of Gonville and Caius College. Moreham joined the faculty of Victoria University of Wellington in 2006, rising to full professor.

Moreham was awarded a Rutherford Discovery Fellowship in 2011, the first fellowship to be awarded to a legal scholar. Her proposal was to write a book with a "coherent theory of privacy law". Moreham co-authored the third edition of The Law of Privacy and The Media with Mark Warby.