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: Masters; PhD;

Current projects under supervision

Honours:

No current projects

Masters:

One LLM Graduate Research Paper

Doctoral:

The role of human rights to protect children on the move to Thailand

Trafficking in women and children in Vietnam: Reinforcing the legal system on criminalizing human trafficking

Hannah Arendt's contribution to thinking about non-citizens in law and politics (co-supervisor: Michael Janover, School of Political and Social Enquiry)

The 'ceased circumstances' clause under Article 1C(5) of the 1951 Refugees Convention

HIV positive refugee resettlement in Australia
(Co-supervisor: Samantha Thomas, School of Primary Health Care)

Domestic fulfillment of international legal obligations under the UN trafficking protocol
(Co-supervisor: Heli Askola)

A study of US asylum law

Human trafficking in Ethiopia - Institutional and legal frameworks to combat human trafficking and forced labour in Ethiopia

Editorial Boards

AIAL Forum
Around the Globe

Grants and Commissions

2009: ARC Linkage Grant. Delivering effective protection to victims and prevention of human trafficking in the Greater Mekong Sub-Region.

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

2012

Book

J. Debeljak & S. Kneebone, ‘Transnational Crime and Human Rights: Responses to Human Trafficking in the Greater Mekong Subregion' (Routledge, April 2012).

Journal Article

F McKay, S Thomas, S Kneebone, 'It would be okay if they came through the proper channels': community perceptions and attitudes toward asylum seekers in Australia', (2012) 25(1) Journal of Refugee Studies 113-133.

2011

Book chapters

S Kneebone, 'ASEAN: setting the agenda for the rights of migrant workers?', in Hitoshi Nasu and Ben Saul (eds), Human Rights in the Asia-Pacific Region. Towards Institution Building, (Routledge, New York USA, 2011)  144-164.

S Kneebone, M  O'Sullivan, 'Article 1 C 1951 Convention', in Andreas Zimmermann, Jonas Dorschner and Felix Machts (eds), The 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees and its 1967 Protocol: A Commentary, (Oxford University Press, New York USA, 2011) 481-535.

Journal article

Fiona McCleod, Samantha Thomas, Kate Holland, Warrick Blood, Susan Kneebone‘"AIDS Assassins": Australian media's portrayal of HIV-positive refugees who deliberately infect others' (2011) 9(1) Journal of Immigration and Refugee Studies 20-37.

Selected list of publications, including those prior to 2011