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Dr Danielle Moon is a Lecturer at Macquarie Law School, Macquarie University, and member of the Ethics and Agency Research Centre. A former UK government solicitor with a decade of experience advising Central Government departments, she specializes in administrative law and transparency, examining how legal frameworks operate in real-world governance contexts.
Her academic qualifications include:
- PhD in Law, Macquarie Law School (awarded April 1, 2020)
- Masters of Research (High Distinction), Macquarie University (awarded December 16, 2015)
- Legal Practice Course, Oxford Institute of Legal Practice (awarded August 1, 2003)
- BA (Oxon) in Law, University of Oxford (awarded July 1, 2001)
Moon's research centers on freedom of information law, transparency mechanisms, and administrative decision-making. She investigates organizational barriers to governmental openness, public servant perspectives on disclosure, and the cultural 'myths' sustaining secrecy despite legal mandates for transparency, combining doctrinal analysis with empirical legal research methods.
Her publication trends reveal consistent focus on practical implementation gaps in transparency frameworks, notably critiquing fee structures in FOI requests (2018) and examining relational fairness dimensions in tribunal settings (2022). Her forthcoming book 'The myth of Freedom of Information' argues that organizational culture perpetuates secrecy beyond statutory requirements.
Recognition:
- Three Minute Thesis - Faculty Heat (2019)
Moon actively supervises graduate research in legal design for access to justice, administrative law, and government integrity. She contributes to policy through expert testimony, including evidence to the Victorian Integrity and Oversight Committee's FOI Act inquiry (2024), and serves as Sub Editor for the Australian Journal of Human Rights since August 2024.
As part of Macquarie's Ethics and Agency Research Centre, she collaborates on interdisciplinary projects examining ethical governance, exemplified by her 2022 tribunal fairness study with co-authors MacDermott, Meyerson, and Mackenzie.
