Jenny Buchan
School of Management and Governance - PhD, Queensland University of Technology | LLM, Melbourne University | LLB, Otago University, New Zealand | Admitted to practice as a barrister and solicitor in New Zealand, Victoria and New South Wales
Jenny joined the School of Taxation and Business Law in 2002. Prior to becoming an academic she worked as a commercial lawyer in private practice in New Zealand, Melbourne and Sydney, and as a compliance consultant.
Jenny's expertise in franchising law led to her appointment as a panel member of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission's Franchising Consultative Committee 2010 - 2015, and her appointment in 2016 to its successor the Small Business and Franchising Consultative Committee. She chaired the UNSW Human Research Ethics Committee.
Jenny was appointed professor emeritus effective end of 2020. She is available as an expert witness, to examine dissertations in franchise law, for teaching commercial law and for consumer protection projects.
From This Author
Why the franchise system is broken (and how to fix it)
The franchise system places franchisees between a rock and a hard place when it comes to legal and financial responsibilities – but new research has found that there is a simple fix for the problem
How franchisees get blinded by unrealistic optimism
Disclosure regimes don’t stop people from hoping for the best