Jane Nielsen

Jane Nielsen is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Law at the University of Tasmania. She currently teaches Torts, a second year Law unit and Competition Law, a final year Law elective. She also supervises a number of PhD students in topics related to her research focus.

As a member of the Centre for Law and Genetics, Jane has a strong research interest in the legal and regulatory aspects of health technologies, particularly in the intellectual property, competition law and consumer law areas. She is a Chief Investigator on two ARC Discovery projects, both of which commenced in 2018. The first project will investigate genomic data sharing practices in research and clinical practice, while the second will evaluate the regulation of innovative health technologies and provide recommendations for regulatory reform