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School leadership

Professor Fleur Johns

Head of School and Dean

Professor Fleur Johns is a leading scholar of international law, responsible for field-shaping contributions to scholarship in international law and technology, law and development, and international legal theory.

She has published six books the most recent of which are #Help: Digital Humanitarianism and the Remaking of International Order (Oxford University Press, 2023) and Connection in a Divided World: Rethinking 'Community' in International Law (T.M.C. Asser Press, 2024). She also has a seventh book forthcoming entitled Global Governance by Data: Infrastructures of Algorithmic Rule (co-edited with Gavin Sullivan and Dimitri van den Meerssche, to be published by Cambridge University Press).

Read the Welcome from the Dean.

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Professor Emily Crawford

Deputy Head of School and Dean

Professor Emily Crawford teaches and researches in international law, international humanitarian law, and international criminal law.

She has published widely in the field of international humanitarian law, including three monographs (The Treatment of Combatants and Insurgents under the Law of Armed Conflict (OUP 2010), Identifying the Enemy: Civilian Participation in Hostilities (OUP 2015) and Non-Binding Norms in International Humanitarian Law: Efficacy, Legitimacy and Legality (OUP 2021)) and two textbooks (International Humanitarian Law (with Alison Pert, 3rd edition, CUP 2024) and Public International Law (co-edited with Alison Pert and Ben Saul, CUP 2023).

In recognition of her outstanding contribution to international law research, she was awarded the Max Planck-Cambridge Prize for International Law in 2023.

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Associate Deans and Program Directors

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Louisa Johnson
School General Manager

Jane Kelly
Law Dean’s Executive Assistant

Peter Finneran
Head of External Engagement

Natasha de Zilva
Education Manager

Anna Slowiak
Senior Finance Manager

Lotus Lui
Associate Finance Manager

Lana Kolta
Education Support Manager

Shazly Sayed
Senior Administrative Officer

Jacky Feng
Senior Operations Officer

Ivana Glavas
Professional Law Programs Manager

Sue Ng
Postgraduate Law Programs Manager (Masters, Graduate Diplomas & HDR)

Julia Robertson
Research Manager

Cate Stewart
Publishing Manager

Carla Viola
External Engagement Manager

Emeritus professors
  • Patricia Apps MED (Yale) PhD (Camb)
  • Hilary Astor BTech (Law) PhD Brunel
  • Ben Boer LLB BA (Hons) LLM Melbourne
  • Peter Butt BA LLM LLD Sydney
  • Terry Carney AO LLB (Hons) Dip Crim Melbourne PhD Monash
  • John Carter BA LLB Sydney PhD Camb
  • Graeme Cooper BA LLB LLM DipJur (Sydney) LLM (Ill) LLM JSD (Col)
  • Reg Graycar LLB (Hons) Adelaide LLM Harvard
  • Jennifer Hill BA LLB (Hons) Sydney BCL Oxford
  • Helen Irving BA (Hons) Melbourne MPhil Camb LLB (Hons) PhD Sydney 
  • Gail Mason LLB (UQ) DipCrim (Melbourne) MA (SUNJ) PhD (La Trobe)
  • Ron McCallum AO, BJuris LLB (Hons) Monash LLM UQ
  • Barbara McDonald, BA LLB Sydney LLM Lond
  • Colin Phegan BA LLB LLM Sydney LLM Mich
  • Joellen Riley Munton BA MA LLB  Sydney BCL Oxford PhD Sydney
  • The Hon Justice Elisabeth Peden BA (first class Hons) LLB (first class Hons and University Medal) (Sydney) PhD (Cantab)
  • Simon Rice, BA (UNSW) LLB (UNSW) MEd (UNSW) OAM
  • Gillian Triggs LLB Melbourne LLM SMU PhD Melbourne
  • Anne Twomey BA LLB (Hons) Melbourne LLM ANU PhD UNSW
  • Richard Vann BA (Hons) LLB (Hons) (UQ) BCL (Oxf)
  • David Weisbrot AM, BA (Hons) Queens NY JD UCLA
Challis lecturers
  • The Hon Chief Justice James Allsop AO, BA LLB Sydney, Challis Lecturer in Maritime Law
  • The Hon Robert Austin BA LLM Sydney DPhil Oxon, Challis Lecturer in Corporate Law
  • The Hon Justice Mark Leeming SC, BA LLB PhD Sydney, Challis Lecturer in Equity
Honorary titles
  • Ross Anderson, LLB (Hons) (Sydney) LLM (Lond), Honorary Senior Lecturer
  • Her Excellency The Honourable Justice Margaret Beazley AC KC
  • Peter Cane, Honorary Professor
  • Duncan Chappell BA LLB (Hons) UTAS PhD Camb, Honorary Professor
  • Jennifer Corrin, Honorary Professor
  • Brent Fisse, Honorary Professor
  • Kate Harrison Brennan, Honorary Associate
  • Richard Johnstone, Honorary Professor
  • Jane Stapleton, Honorary Professor
Adjuncts
  • The Honourable Chief Justice Andrew Bell SC, BA LLB Sydney PhD, Adjunct Professor
  • Christopher Birch, Adjunct Professor
  • The Honourable Justice Ashley Black, Adjunct Professor
  • Andrew Byrnes, Adjunct Professor
  • The Hon Joseph C Campbell KC, FAAL, BA (Hons) LLB (Hons) Sydney, Adjunct Professor
  • Peter Chiam, Adjunct Lecturer
  • Rebecca Connolly LLB (Hons) LLM PhD Syd., Adjunct Senior Lecturer
  • Nicholas Cowdery, Adjunct Professor
  • Thomas Crofts, Adjunct Professor
  • Michael Davis, Adjunct Associate Professor
  • Richard Fisher, Adjunct Professor
  • Stefan Gruber, Adjunct Professor
  • Michael Gvozdenovic, BEc Sydney LLB (Hons) Sydney LLM (Columbia), Adjunct Senior Lecturer
  • Nicholas Lennings, Adjunct Senior Lecturer
  • Diccon John Robertson Loxton, Adjunct Professor
  • Jack Pembroke-Birss, BSc LLB Macquarie, Adjunct Associate Professor
  • Alison Pert, LLB Manc LLM Lond PhD Sydney, Adjunct Associate Professor
  • Lindsay Powers, Adjunct Professor
  • Donald Robertson, Adjunct Professor
  • Tony Ryan, Adjunct Professor
  • Amelia Simpson, BA ANU, LLB ANU, LLM Columbia, JSD Columbia, Adjunct Associate Professor
  • Roy Williams, Adjunct Senior Lecturer
  • Leon Wolff, Adjunct Associate Professor
Research Affiliates
  • Ali Akbari, Research Affiliate
  • Tony Bogdanoski, Research Affiliate
  • Katherine Bones, Research Affiliate
  • Timothy Bowley, Research Affiliate
  • Liam Carroll, Research Affiliate
  • Frank Decker, MSc PhD in Physics Berlin MAppFin Macquarie PhD Bremen, Research Affiliate
  • Justin Ellis, Research Affiliate
  • Neil Francey, Research Affiliate
  • Ian Kerridge, Research Affiliate
  • Yaya Lu, Research Affiliate
  • Michael Murray, Research Affiliate
  • Belinda Jane Newton, Research Affiliate
  • Simon O'Callaghan, Research Affiliate
  • Peter Prince, Research Affiliate
  • Alistair Reid, Research Affiliate
  • Andrew Schmulow, Research Affiliate
  • Nobumichi Teramura, Research Affiliate
  • Catherine Waldby, Research Affiliate

Australian Centre for Climate & Environmental Law

Centre for Asian and Pacific Law

Julius Stone Institute of Jurisprudence

Ross Parsons Centre for Commercial, Corporate and Taxation Law

Sydney Centre for International Law

Sydney Health Law

Sydney Institute of Criminology

University of Sydney Justice Collaboration

ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S)

Australian Network for Japanese Law

 

 

 

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