Professor Susan Kneebone

Professor
LLB, MA, DipEd, PhD,

Professional Profile

Dr Susan Kneebone is a Professor and a Deputy-Director of the Castan Centre for Human Rights Law in  the Faculty of Law, Monash University.  Her teaching and research interests are International Refugee Law, Forced Migration and Citizenship and Migration Law. 

She has published a number of books including S. Kneebone (ed), Refugees, Asylum Seekers and the Rule of Law: Comparative Perspectives (Cambridge University Press, 2009), S. Kneebone and F. Rawlings-Sanaei (eds),   New Regionalism and Asylum Seekers: Challenges Ahead (Berghahn Books, Oxford, 2007) and S. Kneebone (ed),  The Refugees Convention 50 Years On: Globalisation and International Law (Ashgate 2003).

She has received the following ARC Discovery Grants:
2008 - awarded $170,000 for three years: 'Law, Governance and Regulation of Intra-regional Labour Migration in South East Asia: An Agenda for Protection and Development'.
2005 - awarded $75,000 for 'The Asylum Seeker in the Legal System: A Comparative and Theoretical Study'.
2002 - awarded $50,000 for an innovation initiative with Professor Stephen Legomsky for the project: 'Fair Procedures for Refugee Status Determination'.

In 2005 she was a sucessful applicant, with Professor Bernadette McSherry and Dr Julie Debeljak, for an ARC Linkage Grant: 'Australia's Response to Trafficking in Women: Towards a Model for Regulation of Forced Migration in the Asia-Pacific Region'.

Areas of Expertise

International refugee law and forced migration
Tort liability of public authorities
Legal philosophy
Labour migration in South East Asia

Teaching Commitments

Citizenship and Migration Law (LAW4166)
Forced Migration and Human Rights (LAW7066)
International Refugee Law and Human Rights (LAW7425)
International Refugee Law and Practice (LAW4164)