Ursula Jan Cheer is a New Zealand law academic. As of 2018, she is a full professor at the

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Academic career

After growing up in

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, New Zealand and doing an undergraduate at

and practising privately, Cheer worked in government in

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, first at the

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and then the Office of the Prime Minister. She then moved to London to work at the

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, before returning to the

as a full professor, and later Dean. Cheer's research interests focus on media law and chilling effects. She appears frequently in the media on these topics. In 1990, Cheer was awarded the

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Selected works

* Burrows, John Frederick, and Ursula Cheer. Media Law in New Zealand.

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, 2005. * Cheer, Ursula. "Myths and Realities about the Chilling Effect: The New Zealand Media’s Experience of Defamation Law’(2005)." Torts Law Journal 13: 259. * Cheer, Ursula "New Zealand media law update. Recent developments–defamation, censorship and contempt." Media and Arts Law Review 9, no. 3 (2004): 237–246. * Taylor, Lynne, Ursula Cheer, Debra Wilson, Elizabeth Toomey, and Sascha Mueller. "Improving the Effectiveness of Large Class Teaching in Law Degrees." New Zealand Law Review 2013, no. 1 (2013): 100–135. * Cheer, Ursula. "Defamation in New Zealand and Its Effects on the Media-Self-Censorship or Occupational Hazard." New Zealand Law Review (2006): 467.

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