Professor Susan Kneebone

Research Interests

Administrative Law and Regulation
Constitutional Law
Equity
Legal and Moral Philosophy
Refugee Law
Torts
Trusts and Trustees

Supervisor Profile

Qualified to supervise: Honours; Masters; PhD;

Current projects under supervision

Honours:

No current projects

Masters:

No current projects

PhD:

PhD - Comparative Study of Tort Liability for Harms Suffered in Immigration Detention and Prisons: The Australian and UK Experience

PhD - The Cessation Clause in Article 1C 5) of the Refugees Convention

PhD - Sexual and Gender Based Persecution and the International Normative Structure

SJD - Administrative Justice for Asylum Seekers in the Australian
Legal System

Editorial Boards

AIAL Forum
Around the Globe

Grants and Commissions

2005: ARC Discovery Grant, $75,000 for 'The Asylum Seeker in the Legal System: A Comparative and Theoretical Study'

2005: ARC Linkage Grant for 'Australia's Response to Trafficking in Women: Towards a Model for Regulation of Forced Migration in the Asia-Pacific Region' (with Professor B McSherry and Dr Julie Debeljak) Other participants included the Commonwealth Attorney-General, HREOC and World Vision

2005: ARC Small Grant, $6,220 for project entitled ‘The removal of “undesirable” non-citizens from Australia: the scope and application of the character test in s501 of the Migration Act 1958 (Cth)’

2005: Monash Institute for the Study of Global Movements $37,000 for project entitled ‘The Right to Seek and Enjoy Asylum? the Pacific, Mediterranean and Caribbean Plans Compared’

2003: $43,000 from Monash Institute for the Study of Global Movements for project entitled 'Regionalism and Forced Migration: The Effect on Asylum Procedures and Policies'

2002: awarded $50,000 as Chief Investigator for project entitled 'Fair Procedures for Refugee Status Determinations' (with Professor S Legomsky of Washington University, St Louis, Missouri, USA). This project undertakes a comparative evaluation of the standards and procedures of 6 countries to determine the features of fair models for justice in this context.

2001: ARC Small Grant Awarded $4,500 for project entitled Nationality, Alienage and Non-refoulement of Refugees.

2000: ARC Small Grant Awarded $9,673 for project title: The Refugees Convention 50 Years On: Globalisation and International Law.

1998: ARC Small Grant Awarded $10,400 for project title: Natural Justice and Refugee Status Determinations - a Comparative Study.

1996: ARC Small Grant Awarded $7,488 for project title: Natural Justice and Refugee Status Determinations - a Comparative Study.

Publications

2008

Kneebone, S. (Ed) Refugees, Asylum Seekers and the Rule of Law. Cambridge University Press. (2008)

Kneebone, S., with McSherry, B. ‘Trafficking in Women and Forced Migration: Moving Victims Across the Border of Crime into the Domain of Human Rights'. (2008) 12(2) International Journal of Human Rights 67-87

Kneebone, S.  and Debeljak, J. ‘Combating transnational crime in the Greater Mekong Sub-Region – the cases of Laos PDR and Cambodia’ in Holmes, L. (Ed) Trafficking and Forced Migration: Australian, European and Global Perspectives. Edward Elgar (2008)

Kneebone, S. ‘The trafficking dialogue: women as agents, victims and refugees’ to be included in Crepeau, F., et al (Eds) La Dynamique Complexe des Migrations Internationals. Published by Presses de l’Universite de Montreal (2008) (Forthcoming)

2007

Kneebone, S.,  and  Rawlings-Sanaei, F. (Eds) New Regionalism and Asylum Seekers: Challenges Ahead. Berghahn Books, Oxford. (2007)

Kneebone, S., and Rawlings-Sanaei, F. (Eds) ‘Old and New Regionalism’. Introduction to New Regionalism and Asylum Seekers: Challenges Ahead. Berghahn Books (2007) 1-24.

Kneebone, S., and Pickering, S. ‘Australia and the Pacific Region’. In Kneebone, S.,  and  Rawlings-Sanaei, F. (Eds) New Regionalism and Asylum Seekers: Challenges Ahead. Berghahn Books, Oxford. (2007)167-187.

Kneebone, S. ‘Conclusion: Challenges Ahead’ in Kneebone, S.,  and  Rawlings-Sanaei, F. (Eds) New Regionalism and Asylum Seekers: Challenges Ahead. Berghahn Books, Oxford. (2007) 221-229.

Kneebone, S. Review of  Beeks, K., and Amir, D. (Eds) 'Trafficking and the Global Sex Industry' in Journal of Refugee Studies (2007) 539-542

Complete listing of publications, including those prior to 2007