Professor Fleur Johns

Professor Fleur Johns

Professor

BA, LLB (Hons), Melbourne

LLM, SJD, Harvard

Law & Justice
School of Global & Public Law

Fleur Johns is Professor in the Faculty of Law & Justice at UNSW Sydney. Fleur works in international law, legal theory, law and development, and law and technology. Her latest research has focused on the implications of digital technology for international law and politics, and on the international law of diplomacy. Fleur is an Australian Research Council Future Fellow (2021-2025). 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, Cambridge 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 and she remains a member of the New York Bar. 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 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 served on UNSW's Academic Board between 2021 and 2024.

Fleur has three children and worked part-time (approximately half-time) between 2005 and 2013.

Fleur's full CV may be downloaded here.

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  • Books | 2024
    Johns F, 2024, Connection in a Divided World: Rethinking ‘Community’ in International Law, T.M.C. Asser Press, The Hague, The Netherlands, https://www.asser.nl/upload/documents/20240821T155258-AL9_Johns_webversie.pdf
    Books | 2023
    Johns F, 2023, #Help: Digital Humanitarianism and the Remaking of International Order, Oxford University PressNew York, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197648872.001.0001
    Books | 2016
    Boer B; Johns F; Saul B; Scurrah N, 2016, The Mekong: A Socio-Legal Approach to River Basin Development, Taylor & Francis Group, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315765556
    Books | 2013
    Johns FE, 2013, Non-Legality in International Law: Unruly Law, Cambridge University Press, UK
  • Book Chapters | 2024
    Johns F, 2024, 'Hope: An Epilogue', in Hope in the Anthropocene Agency, Governance and Negation, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh
    Book Chapters | 2022
    Johns F; Grolman L; Gorur E, 2022, 'Big Data and International Law (Revised and Updated)', in Oxford Bibliographies of International Law, Oxford University Press, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/OBO/9780199796953-0176
    Book Chapters | 2022
    Johns F, 2022, 'Critical International Legal Theory', in Dunoff J; Pollack M (ed.), International Legal Theory: Foundations and Frontiers, Cambridge University Press, New York, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781108551878.006
    Book Chapters | 2022
    Johns F, 2022, 'Modeling Pandemic', in Fassin D; Fourcade M (ed.), Pandemic Exposures Economy and Society in the Time of Coronavirus, Hau Books, Chicago, pp. 385 - 403, https://haubooks.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Fassin-Fourcade-PANDEMIC-EXPOSURES-2021.pdf
    Book Chapters | 2022
    Johns F, 2022, 'Norms', in More Posthuman Glossary, pp. 87 - 88
    Book Chapters | 2021
    Johns F, 2021, 'On Dead Circuits and Non-Events', in Venzke I; Heller KJ (ed.), Contingency in International Law: On the Possibility of a Different Law, Oxford University Press, Oxford, https://global.oup.com/academic/product/contingency-in-international-law-9780192898036?cc=au&lang=en&#
    Book Chapters | 2020
    Johns F, 2020, 'Counting, countering and claiming the pandemic: digital practices, players, policies', in Taylor L; Sharma G; Martin A; Jameson S (ed.), Data Justice and COVID-19: Global Perspectives, Meatspace Press, Oxford, pp. 90 - 99, https://meatspacepress.com/
    Book Chapters | 2020
    Johns F, 2020, 'Shadowboxing: the Data Shadows of Cold War International Law', in Craven M; Pahuja S; Simpson G (ed.), International Law and the Cold War, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 137 - 158, http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3043627
    Book Chapters | 2019
    Johns F, 2019, 'Legality', in d'Aspremont J; Singh S (ed.), Concepts for International Law: Contributions to Disciplinary Thought, Edward Elgar, pp. 636 - 649, http://dx.doi.org/10.4337/9781783474684.00046
    Book Chapters | 2018
    Chan J; Johns F; Bennett Moses L, 2018, 'Academic Metrics and Positioning Strategies', in Ajana B (ed.), Metric Culture Ontologies of Self-Tracking Practices, Emerald Group Publishing, Bingley UK, pp. 177 - 195, http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/978-1-78743-289-520181010
    Book Chapters | 2018
    Johns F, 2018, 'Things to Make and Do', in Hohmann J; Joyce D (ed.), International Law's Objects, Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 47 - 56
    Book Chapters | 2017
    Johns FE, 2017, 'Data Mining as Global Governance', in Brownsword R; Scotford E; Yeung K (ed.), Oxford Handbook on the Law and Regulation of Technology, Oxford University Press, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199680832.013.56
    Book Chapters | 2016
    Johns FE, 2016, 'Theorizing the Corporation in International Law', in Orford A; Hoffmann F (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of the Theory of International Law, Oxford University Press, online
    Book Chapters | 2012
    Johns F, 2012, 'Living in international law', in Reading Modern Law: Critical Methodologies and Sovereign Formations, pp. 74 - 86, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203119457-11
    Book Chapters | 2012
    Johns FE, 2012, 'Living in International Law', in Buchanan R; Motha S; Pahuja S (ed.), Reading Modern Law, Routledge, pp. 74 - 86
    Book Chapters | 2011
    Johns F; Joyce R; Pahuja S, 2011, 'Introduction', in Events: The Force of International Law, Routledge, UK, pp. 1 - 17, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203844465
    Book Chapters | 2011
    Johns F, 2011, 'The torture memos', in Johns F; Joyce R; Pahuja S (ed.), Events: The force of International Law, Taylor & Francis, pp. 260 - 278, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203844465
    Book Chapters | 2010
    Johns F; Joyce R; Pahuja S, 2010, 'Introduction', in Events: The Force of International Law, pp. 1 - 17
    Book Chapters | 2010
    Johns F, 2010, 'The torture memos', in Events: The Force of International Law, pp. 260 - 278
    Book Chapters | 2010
    Johns FE, 2010, 'Introduction', in Johns FE (ed.), International Legal Personality, Ashgate Publishing, pp. i - xxix
    Book Chapters | 2010
    Johns FE, 2010, 'The Gift of Realism: Julius Stone and the International Legal Academy in Australia, 1954-1994', in Irving H; Walton K; Mowbray J (ed.), Julius Stone: A Study in Influence, pp. 21 - 37
    Book Chapters | 2007
    Johns FE, 2007, 'Performing Power: The Deal, Corporate Rule, and the Constitution of Global Legal Order', in Motha S (ed.), Democracy's Empire Sovereignty, Law, and Violence, Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, pp. 116 - 138
    Book Chapters | 2005
    Johns FE, 2005, 'International Law-National Law: Thinking through the Hyphen', in Charlesworth H; Chiam M; Hovell D; Williams G (ed.), The Fluid State International Law and National Legal Systems, Federation Press, pp. 188 - 209
    Book Chapters | 2005
    Johns FE, 2005, 'The Globe and the Ghetto', in Lederer M; Muller P (ed.), Criticizing Global Governance, Springer, ebook, pp. 69 - 102
  • Edited Books | 2010
    Johns F, (ed.), 2010, International Legal Personality., Routledge (formerly Ashgate), UK, https://www.routledge.com/International-Legal-Personality/Johns/p/book/9780754628286
    Edited Books | 2010
    Johns FE; Pahuja S; Joyce R, (eds.), 2010, Events: The Force of International Law, Routledge, Abingdon, New York, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203844465
  • Journal articles | 2024
    Engle K; Johns F; Riles A, 2024, 'INTRODUCTION TO THE SYMPOSIUM ON INTERNATIONAL LAWS PUBLIC AND PRIVATE', AJIL Unbound, 118, pp. 1 - 6, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/aju.2023.54
    Journal articles | 2024
    Johns F, 2024, 'REHOMING DIPLOMACY: PRIVILEGE AND POSSIBILITY IN THE INTERNATIONAL LAW OF DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS', University of Toronto Law Journal, 74, pp. 69 - 93, http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/utlj-2023-0143
    Journal articles | 2023
    Johns F; Noll G, 2023, 'Introduction to the Symposium on Critical International Law and Technology.', AJIL Unbound, 117, pp. 128 - 133, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/aju.2023.24
    Journal articles | 2023
    Johns F, 2023, 'Digital Humanitarian Mapping and the Limits of Imagination in International Law', Law and Critique, 34, pp. 341 - 361, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10978-023-09361-6
    Journal articles | 2023
    Johns F, 2023, 'Disastrous Law: International Law and the Shock-absorption of Disaster', American Journal of International Law, 117, pp. 151 - 171, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ajil.2022.79
    Journal articles | 2023
    Johns F, 2023, 'Encuentros con seres notables, Comentario desde el derecho', Naturaleza y Sociedad. Desafíos Medioambientales, 4, https://openscience.uniandes.edu.co/nys4-10/
    Journal articles | 2023
    Johns F, 2023, 'Reading and writing at the interface', London Review of International Law, 11, pp. 547 - 561, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/lril/lrae001
    Journal articles | 2022
    Johns F, 2022, 'International Law and the Provocations of the Digital: The 2021 Annual Kirby Lecture in International Law', Australian Year Book of International Law, 40, pp. 3 - 22, http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/26660229-04001002
    Journal articles | 2022
    Johns F, 2022, 'State changes: Prototypical governance figured and prefigured', Law and Critique: journal of critical legal studies, 33, pp. 251 - 271, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10978-022-09329-y
    Journal articles | 2022
    Wobcke W; Compton C; Johns F; Lamchek J; Mariyah S, 2022, 'Nowcasting for Hunger Relief: A Study of Promise and Perils', Information Technology for Development, 29, pp. 27 - 47, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02681102.2022.2092438
    Journal articles | 2022
    2022, 'Big Data and International Law (Revised and Updated)', Oxford Bibliographies of International Law, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/OBO/9780199796953-0176
    Journal articles | 2021
    Golder B; Hush A; Jefferies R; Johns F; Nolan J, 2021, 'Foreword', Australian Journal of Human Rights, 27, pp. 399 - 401, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1323238X.2022.2039056
    Journal articles | 2021
    Johns F, 2021, 'Afterword: The Sovereignty Deficit', International Journal Of Constitutional Law, 19, pp. 1 - 7, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/icon/moab004
    Journal articles | 2021
    Johns F, 2021, 'Centers and peripheries in a world of blockchain: An introduction to the symposium', AJIL Unbound, 115, pp. 404 - 407, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/aju.2021.67
    Journal articles | 2021
    Johns F, 2021, 'Disciplinary Privilege and the Promise of Decampment: A Response to James Thuo Gathii's 'The Promise of International Law: A Third World View'', Proceedings of the American Society of International Law at its annual meeting, 114, pp. 23 - 27, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/amp.2021.88
    Journal articles | 2021
    Johns F, 2021, 'Drowning, Rescuing and the Law in Between', European Journal of Sociology, 61, pp. 455 - 460, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0003975620000284
    Journal articles | 2021
    Johns F, 2021, 'Governance by Data', Annual Review of Law and Social Science, 17, pp. 53 - 71, http://dx.doi.org/10.1146/annurev-lawsocsci-120920-085138
    Journal articles | 2020
    Fourcade M; Johns F, 2020, 'Loops, ladders and links: the recursivity of social and machine learning', Theory and Society, 49, pp. 803 - 832, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11186-020-09409-x
    Journal articles | 2020
    Johns F; Compton C, 2020, 'Data Jurisdictions and Rival Regimes of Algorithmic Regulation', Regulation and Governance, 16, pp. 1 - 22, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/rego.12296
    Journal articles | 2020
    Johns F, 2020, '“Surveillance Capitalism” and the Angst of the Petit Sovereign', British Journal of Sociology, 71, pp. 1049 - 1051, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1468-4446.12784
    Journal articles | 2019
    Johns F, 2019, 'From Planning to Prototypes: New Ways of Seeing Like a State', The Modern Law Review, 82, pp. 833 - 863, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1468-2230.12442
    Journal articles | 2019
    Johns F, 2019, 'War Without Words', AJIL Unbound, 113, pp. 67 - 70, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/aju.2019.7
    Journal articles | 2018
    Bennett Moses L; Johns F; Joyce D, 2018, 'Introduction: Data Associations in Global Law & Policy', Big Data and Society, 5, pp. 2053951718783438, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2053951718783438
    Journal articles | 2018
    Valverde M; Johns F; Raso J, 2018, 'Governing Infrastructure in the Age of the "Art of the Deal"', PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review, 41, pp. 118 - 132, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/plar.12257
    Journal articles | 2017
    Johns F, 2017, 'Data, detection, and the redistribution of the sensible in international law', American Journal of International Law, 111, pp. 57 - 103, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ajil.2016.4
    Journal articles | 2017
    Johns FE; Riles A, 2017, 'Beyond Bunker and Vaccine: The DNC Hack as a Conflict of Laws Issue', AJIL Unbound, 110, pp. 347 - 351, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/aju.2017.7
    Journal articles | 2017
    Johns FE, 2017, 'Data Territories: Changing Architectures of Association in International Law', Netherlands Yearbook of International Law, 47, https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers2.cfm?abstract_id=2810897
    Journal articles | 2016
    Boer B; Hirsch P; Johns F; Saul B; Scurrah N; P Cronin R, 2016, 'he Mekong: A Socio-Legal Approach to River Basin Development.', Contemporary Southeast Asia, 38, pp. 333 - 336, http://dx.doi.org/10.1355/cs38-2n
    Journal articles | 2016
    Johns F, 2016, 'The temporal rivalries of human rights', Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies, 23, pp. 39 - 60
    Journal articles | 2015
    Johns F, 2015, 'Global governance through the pairing of list and algorithm', Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 33, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0263775815599307
    Journal articles | 2015
    Johns FE, 2015, 'On Failing Forward: Neoliberal Legality in the Mekong River Basin', Cornell International Law Journal, 48, pp. 347 - 383
    Journal articles | 2015
    Johns FE, 2015, 'Starting and Stopping Points: A Response to Gadinis', AJIL Unbound, 109, pp. 39 - 43
    Journal articles | 2014
    Johns F, 2014, 'Author's Response', Leiden Journal of International Law, 27, pp. 966 - 970
    Journal articles | 2013
    Johns F, 2013, 'The deluge', London Review of International Law, 1, pp. 9 - 34, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/lril/lrt002
    Journal articles | 2011
    Johns F, 2011, 'Financing as governance', Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, 31, pp. 391 - 415, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ojls/gqr005
    Journal articles | 2010
    Johns FE; Saul B; Hirsch P; Stephens T; Boer B, 2010, 'Law And The Mekong River Basin: A Socio-Legal Research Agenda On The Role Of Hard And Soft Law In Regulating Transboundary Water Resources', Melbourne Journal of International Law, 11, pp. 154 - 174
    Journal articles | 2009
    Johns FE, 2009, 'International Legal Theory: Snapshots from a Decade of International Legal Life', Melbourne Journal of International Law, 10, pp. 1 - 10
    Journal articles | 2008
    Johns FE, 2008, 'Performing Party Autonomy', Law and Contemporary Problems, 71, pp. 243 - 271
    Journal articles | 2007
    Johns F; Freeland S, 2007, 'Teaching international law across an urban divide: Reflections on an improvisation', Journal of Legal Education, 57, pp. 539 - 561
    Journal articles | 2007
    Johns F, 2007, 'Performing power: The deal, corporate rule, and the constitution of global legal order', Journal of Law and Society, 34, pp. 116 - 138, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-6478.2007.00385.x
    Journal articles | 2005
    Johns F, 2005, 'Guantánamo Bay and the annihilation of the exception', European Journal of International Law, 16, pp. 613 - 635, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ejil/chi135
    Journal articles | 2005
    Johns F, 2005, 'Private Law, public landscape: troubling the grid', Law Text Culture, 9, pp. 60 - 90
    Journal articles | 2005
    Johns FE, 2005, 'Human Rights in the High Court of Australia, 1976-2003', Federal Law Review, 33, pp. 287 - 331
    Journal articles | 2005
    Johns FE, 2005, 'Human Rights in the High Court of Australia, 1976-2003: The Righting of Australian Law?', Federal Law Review, 33, pp. 287 - 331, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0067205x0503300204
    Journal articles | 2005
    Johns FE, 2005, 'Human Rights in the High Court of Australia, 1976-2003: The Righting of Australian Law?', Federal Law Review, 33, pp. 287 - 331, http://dx.doi.org/10.22145/flr.33.2.4
    Journal articles | 2004
    Johns FE, 2004, 'Address: On Writing Dangerously', The Sydney Law Review, 26, pp. 473 - 480
    Journal articles | 2004
    Johns FE, 2004, 'Global governance: An heretical history play', Global Jurist Advances, 4, pp. 1 - 49, http://dx.doi.org/10.2202/1535-1661.1125
    Journal articles | 2004
    Johns FE, 2004, 'The madness of migration: Disquiet in the international law relating to refugees', International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, 27, pp. 587 - 607, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijlp.2004.08.003
    Journal articles | 2003
    Johns F, 2003, 'Karen Knop, Diversity and Self-determination in International Law, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2002, ISBN 0521781787, 456 pp., £55.00', Leiden Journal of International Law, 16, pp. 656 - 669, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0922156503241388
    Journal articles | 1995
    Johns FE, 1995, 'Portrait of the Artist as a White Man: The International Law of Human Rights and Aboriginal Culture', Australian Yearbook of International Law, 16, pp. 175 - 197
    Journal articles | 1994
    Johns FE, 1994, 'The Invisibility of the Transnational Corporation: An Analysis of International Law and Legal Theory', Melbourne University Law Review, 19, pp. 893 - 923
  • Other | 2023
    Johns F, 2023, More-than-human Diplomacy in the Indo-Pacific, , https://www.9dashline.com/article/forum-the-rules-based-international-order-in-the-indo-pacific
    Other | 2023
    2023, Encuentros con seres notables, Comentario desde el derecho, Universidad de los Andes, Bogota, Colombia, , https://openscience.uniandes.edu.co/nys4-10/
    Other | 2022
    Johns F; Kotova A, 2022, Ukraine: Don’t Write Off the International Order, Read and Rewrite it, Lowy Institute for International Policy, Sydney, , https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/ukraine-don-t-write-international-order-read-rewrite
    Reports | 2021
    Bennett Moses L; Johns F; Land L; Vaile D; Zalnieriute M; Yastreboff M; Zhao S; De Sousa T; Whitty M, 2021, Submission to Inquiry into Data Availability and Transparency (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2020, https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3807026
    Reports | 2021
    Bennett Moses L; Johns F; Land L; Vaile D; Zalnieriute M; Yastreboff M; Zhao S; de Sousa T; Whitty M, 2021, Submission into Inquiry into Data Availability and Transparency (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2020, http://dx.doi.org/10.26190/unsworks/28189, https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3807026
    Other | 2021
    Johns F; Compton C; Lamchek J; Nicholls R, 2021, ‘Fibre in the Coral Sea or Message in a Bottle?’, John Menadue, Sydney, , https://johnmenadue.com/fibre-in-the-coral-sea-or-message-in-a-bottle-whos-interests-are-we-serving/
    Reports | 2020
    Bennett Moses L; Churches G; Johns F; Parnaby L; Zalnieriute M, 2020, Submission to National Data Commissioner, Data Availability and Transparency Bill 2020, https://www.allenshub.unsw.edu.au/sites/default/files/inline-files/20201106%20Submission%20to%20PMC%20re%20Data%20Availability%20and%20Transparency%20Bill.pdf
    Conference Papers | 2020
    Johns F, 2020, 'Disciplinary Privilege and the Promise of Decampment: A Response to James Thuo Gathii's “The Promise of International Law: A Third World View”', in Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the American Society of International Law, American Society of International Law, Washington, D.C., presented at Annual Meeting of the American Society of International Law, Washington, D.C., 25 June 2020 - 26 June 2020, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/amp.2021.88
    Other | 2020
    Reports | 2019
    Johns F; Compton C; Zalnieriute M; Bennett Moses L; McAdam J; Goodwin-Gill G, 2019, Submission to the UNHCR’s Global Virtual Summit on Digital Identity for Refugees ‘Envisioning a digital identity ecosystem in support of the Global Compact on Refugees’, https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3380116
    Other | 2019
    Johns F; Compton C, 2019, Submission for the Thematic Report to the UN General Assembly on Digital Technology, Social Protection and Human Rights, , https://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Issues/Poverty/DigitalTechnology/UNSW_Law.pdf
    Other | 2019
    Johns F; Grolman L; Gorur E, 2019, Big Data and International Law, Oxford University Press, Oxford, , http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/OBO/9780199796953-0176
    Other | 2018
    Bennett Moses L; Buckley R; Johns F; Greenleaf G; Kemp K; De Leeuw M; Manwaring K; Maurushat A; Zalnieriute M, 2018, Response to Issues Paper on Data Sharing and Release, https://www.pmc.gov.au/sites/default/files/public-submissions/data-sharing-2018/20684.pdf
    Preprints | 2018
    Johns FE, 2018, Critical International Legal Theory, http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3224013
    Other | 2017
    Johns FE; Riles A, 2017, Introduction to Symposium on Cybersecurity and the Changing International Law of Data, Cambridge University Press, , http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/aju.2017.2
    Preprints | 2017
    Johns FE, 2017, Shadowboxing: The Data Shadows of Cold War International Law, http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3043627
    Other | 2015
    Johns F, 2015, Book Review: Competing Sovereignties, CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS, , http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0020589315000226
    Other | 2014
    Johns FE; Joyce D, 2014, Beyond Privacy: Is Prevailing Legal Debate too Analog for a Digital Age?,
    Other | 2014
    Johns FE, 2014, 'International Law 1914/2014', Critical Legal Thinking: Law & The Political, , http://criticallegalthinking.com/2014/07/30/international-law-19142014/
    Preprints | 2014
    Johns FE, 2014, Legality, , http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2520002
    Other | 2014
    Johns FE, 2014, The Turn to Data Analytics and International Law, , http://www.esil-sedi.eu/node/587
    Other | 2013
    Johns F, 2013, Book Review: 'The International Law of Human Rights’ by Justine Nolan, Adam McBeth and Simon Rice, OXFORD UNIV PRESS, , http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/hrlr/ngt023
    Reports | 2013
    Johns FE; Gardoll A; Gruber S, 2013, Submission to the Senate Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs Inquiry into the Impact of Federal Court fee increases since 2010 on Access to Justice in Australia, 12 April 2013, Senate Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs Inquiry into the Impact of Federal Cou
    Reports | 2013
    Johns FE; Hertzberg D, 2013, Submission to the NSW Law Reform Commission Reference on Parole, 7 November 2013, NSW Law Reform Commission
    Other | 2013
    Johns FE, 2013, Encyclopaedia Entries: ‘Economic, social and cultural rights’, ‘Extraterritoriality’ and ‘International Bill of Rights’, Australian Law Dictionary, Australian Law Dictionary, Oxford University Press: Australia,
    Other | 2012
    Johns FE, 2012, Book Review: 'Collateral Knowledge: Legal Reasoning in the Global Financial Markets’ by Annelise Riles,
    Other | 2011
    Johns F; Skouteris T; Werner W, 2011, Introduction: The league of nations and the construction of the periphery, , http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0922156511000379
    Reports | 2011
    Johns FE; Saul B; Baghoomians I, 2011, Submission to the Senate Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs Inquiry into the National Security Legislation Amendment Bill 2010 and Parliamentary Joint Committee on Law Enforcement Bill 2010, Senate Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs Inquiry into the National Security Leg
    Reports | 2011
    Johns FE; Saul B; Burke C; MacPherson D, 2011, Submission to Inquiry into the Migration Amendment (Strengthening the Character Test and Other Provisions) Bill 2011, May 2011, Senate Legal and Constitutional Committees
    Other | 2010
    Johns FE; Werner W; Skouteris T, 2010, Introduction: ‘India and International Law', , http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0922156509990306
    Reports | 2009
    Johns FE, 2009, Submission to the Commonwealth Attorney-Generals Department Discussion Paper on proposed Amendments to the National Security Legislation, October 2009, Commonwealth Attorney-Generals Department
    Reports | 2009
    Johns FE, 2009, Submission to the Senate Legal and Constitutional Committee Inquiry into Marriage Equality Amendment Bill, September 2009, Senate Legal and Constitutional Committee Inquiry into Marriage Equality Amendment Bill,
    Other | 2008
    Johns F; Skouteris T; Werner W, 2008, Editors' Introduction: Taslim Olawale Elias in the Periphery Series, , http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0922156508004949
    Other | 2008
    Johns FE; Werner W, 2008, Introduction: ‘The Risks of International Law’,
    Other | 2008
    Johns F (ed.), 2008, Book Review: 'The Body and the State: Habeas Corpus and American Jurisprudence by Cary Federman'
    Other | 2007
    Johns F, 2007, INTERNATIONAL LAW AND ITS OTHERS, UNIV MELBOURNE, MELBOURNE LAW SCH,
    Other | 2006
    Johns FE; Werner W; Skouteris J, 2006, Introduction: ‘Alejandro Álvarez’,
    Other | 2005
    Johns FE, 2005, Book Review: 'Critical Beings: Law, Nation and the Global Subject edited by Peter Fitzpatrick and Patricia Tuitt’,
    Other | 2004
    Johns FE; Crock M; Freeman D, 2004, Editors' Introduction: Migration, Mental Health and Human Rights,
    Other | 2003
    Johns FE, 2003, Book Review: ‘Diversity and Self-Determination in International Law by Karen Knop’, Cambridge University Press (CUP): HSS Journals,
    Other | 2000
    Johns FE, 2000, Book Review: ‘Citymaking by Gerald Frug’,
    Reports | 1999
    Johns FE; Bruderlein C, 1999, Inter-Agency Expert Consultation on Protected Areas: Review of Literature
    Reports | 1999
    Johns FE, 1999, Report of the Inter-Agency Expert Consultation on Protected Areas, United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs & Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies
    Preprints |
    Bennett Moses L; Bowrey K; Delnawaz L; Hartridge S; Johns FE; Vaile D; Zhou W; Zhao S; Nicholson K, Submission to Digital Advertising Services (‘AdTech’) Inquiry, , http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4066181
    Other |
    Bennett Moses L; Buckley RP; Johns FE; Greenleaf G; Kemp K; De Leeuw M; Manwaring K; Maurushat A; Zalnieriute M, Response to Issues Paper on Data Sharing and Release, Elsevier BV, http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3348816
    Preprints |
    Bennett Moses L; Johns FE; Land LPW; Vaile D; Zalnieriute M; Yastreboff M; Zhao S; Nicholson K; de Sousa T; Whitty M, Inquiry into the Data Availability and Transparency Bill 2020 and the Data Availability and Transparency (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2020, http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3807026
    Preprints |
    Compton C; Johns FE; Bennett Moses L; Zalnieriute M; Goodwin-Gill GS; McAdam J, Submission to the UNHRC’s Global Virtual Summit on Digital Identity for Refugees ‘Envisioning a Digital Identity Ecosystem in Support of the Global Compact on Refugees’, http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3380116
    Preprints |
    Johns FE; Compton C, Data Jurisdictions and Rival Regimes of Algorithmic Regulation, , http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3505820
    Preprints |
    Johns FE; Compton C, Submission for the Thematic Report to the UN General Assembly on Digital Technology, Social Protection and Human Rights, , http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3376300
    Preprints |
    Johns FE, On Dead Circuits and Non-Events, , http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3469325
    Preprints |
    Johns FE, Songs and Static: Legalities of White Noise, , http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3738405
    Preprints |
    Johns FE, Theorizing the Corporation in International Law, , http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2437721

  • Australian Research Council Future Fellowship 2021-2024 (FT200100656), 'Diplomatic Knowledge, Disasters and the Future of International Legal Order' (AUD$951,471)
  • First-named Chief Investigator, Australian Research Council Discovery Project Grant 2018-2020 (DP18010090), 'Data Science in Humanitarianism: Confronting Novel Law and Policy Challenges' (with CI A/Professor Wayne Wobcke, UNSW Computer Science, and PI Professor David Nelken, Dickson Poon School of Law, King's College London) (AUD$511,496).
  • Chief Investigator, Australian Cyber Security Studies Centre Research Grant 2015 ‘Data Analytics, Decision Support and Changing Conditions of Global Governance: Human Dimensions of Cyber Security Regulation’ (AUD$30,000)
  • First-named Chief Investigator, Australian Research Council Discovery Grant 2011-2013 (DP110102978) ‘Mekong Laws: Scales, Sites and Impacts of 'hard' and 'soft' Law in Mekong River Basin Governance’ (with Prof. Philip Hirsch, Prof. Ben Boer and Prof. Ben Saul) (AUD$300,000)
  • Participating Investigator, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Insight Grant 2012-2015, ‘Planning by Contract: An Empirical Study of the Legal and Governance Dimensions of Public-Private Projects’ (Prof. Mariana Valverde and Dr. Susannah Bunce, University of Toronto are Chief Investigators) (CAD$94,275)
  • Grant-holder, Council for Australian-Arab Relations Grant 2012-2013, for ‘International Law & the Periphery’, a Conference Co-convened with the American University in Cairo, Egypt, Feb. 2012 (AUD $12,000)

 

  • 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:

  • Public International Law
  • Law in Global Context
  • Private International Law
  • International Human Rights Law
  • International Law & the Use of Armed Force
  • International Project Finance
  • Law, Lawyers & Justice (professional ethics) 
  • Legal Geographies
  • The State and Global Governance
  • Theories of International Law