
BA, LLB (Hons), Melbourne
LLM, SJD, Harvard
Fleur Johns is Professor in the Faculty of Law & Justice at UNSW Sydney. Fleur works in international law, legal theory and law and technology. Her latest research focuses on the implications of digital technology for international law and politics, and how diplomats deal with disaster. Fleur is an Australian Research Council Future Fellow (2021-2025) and a Visiting Professor at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden (2021-2024). She has published five books, the most recent of which is #Help: Digital Humanitarianism and the Remaking of International Order (Oxford University Press). Fleur has held visiting appointments in Canada, Europe, the UK, and the US and currently serves on the editorial boards of the American Journal of International Law and the journals Technology and Regulation, the Journal of Cross-disciplinary Research in Computational Law, and Science, Technology & Human Values, as well as being an Advisory Editor for the London Review of International Law, the Australian Feminist Law Journal and several scholarly book series. Fleur is a graduate of Melbourne University (BA, LLB(Hons)) and Harvard University (LLM, SJD; Menzies Scholar; Laylin Prize). Prior to entering academia, Fleur practised law in New York. Fleur was elected to Fellowship of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia in 2020 and currently serves on its Executive Committee as International Secretary. Within UNSW, Fleur is affiliated with the Allens Hub for Technology, Law and Innovation and the Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law and is an associate of the Australian Human Rights Institute. Fleur was Associate Dean (Research) for the Faculty of Law at UNSW Sydney between 2016 and 2019 and currently serves on UNSW's Academic Board.
Fleur has three school-aged children and worked part-time (approximately half-time) between 2005 and 2013.
Fleur's full CV may be downloaded here.
Fellow, Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia since 2020
Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton 2019-2020
Fulbright Scholar Award (declined) 2019-2020
Robert Gordon Menzies Scholarship, Harvard University 1995-1996
Robert Laylin Prize, Harvard University 1996
Elected LLM class speaker, Harvard University Commencement 1996
Robert Craig Exhibition for Current International Legal Problems, University of Melbourne, 1994
Schutt Trust Fellowship, Trinity College, University of Melbourne, 1991
Price Waterhouse Prize for Contracts, University of Melbourne, 1990
Appointments (selected)
Executive Committee, The Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, International Secretary, Chair of International Committee, since end of 2021.
Board of Trustees, Association of Members of the Institute for Advanced Study (AMIAS), Princeton, elected 2021
Core Ideas Group, Meridian 180 (https://meridian.northwestern.edu), member 2012-2020
Elected Member of the Coordinating Committee of the European Society of International Law International Legal Theory Interest Group 2007-2009; 2009-2012
Management Committee Member, Refugee Advice and Casework Service, Ltd., 2003-2005; 2009-2010
Management Committee Member, International Law Association (Australian branch), 2005
Rapporteur, Inter-agency Consultation on Protected Areas, UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs & Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies (1999)
Non-Executive Director, Environment Defenders Office (Victoria), 1993-1995
Advisory Board Member, Esprit Cares Trust Fund, Esprit (Australia) Pty Ltd, 1992-1994
Editorial roles (selected)
Editorial Board, American Journal of International Law, since 2018; re-elected 2022
Editorial Board, Science, Technology & Human Values, since 2022
Editorial Board, North South Journal of Peace and Global Studies, since 2022
International Advisory Board, Hart/Bloomsbury Book Series: Shaping Law: Aesthetics, Value, History, since 2022
Editorial Board, Technology and Regulation, since 2019
Editorial Board, Routledge Book Series: Politics of Transnational Law, since 2015
Editorial Advisory Board, London Review of International Law, since 2013
Editorial Board, Leiden Journal of International Law, 2005-2013 (Articles Editor 2005-2010 with Wouter Werner)
Editorial Board, Australian Journal of Human Rights, 2005-2015
Editorial Advisory Board, Australian Feminist Law Journal, since 2008
Editorial Board, Global Change, Peace & Security, 2008-2021
Editorial Board, Australian International Law Journal, 2008-2013
Editorial Board, Sydney Law Review, 2004 (Book Review Editor) & 2007
Primary Editor, Harvard Human Rights Journal, 1996
My Teaching
Fleur has taught LLB, JD and Masters courses in the following areas: