Fleur Johns is Professor of Law and Associate Dean of Research at UNSW Law in Sydney, Australia. Fleur works in the areas of public international law and legal theory. Fleur's work has focused, in particular, on public-private assemblages of power and norms in cross-border finance, humanitarian aid, development, and military conflict. Currently, her primary area of research surrounds new modes of global association and governance emerging in the context of technological change. She is interested especially in the politico-legal implications of introducing data science to decision making in international humanitarian and development work. 

Before joining UNSW in 2014, Fleur was Co-Director of the Sydney Centre for International Law in the University of Sydney’s Faculty of Law. In 2005-2006, she was a Leverhulme Visiting Fellow at Birkbeck College, the University of London. In 2014, she was a member of the Distinguished Visiting Faculty at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Law and, in 2015, a Visiting Fellow at the European University Institute. In 2016-2017, she will be Shimizu Visiting Professor of Law at the London School of Economics. Outside the academy, Fleur practised as an attorney in the State of New York between 1996 and 2002, with Sullivan and Cromwell, specialising in international project finance in Latin America. Fleur is a graduate of the University of Melbourne (BA, LLB (Hons 1)) and Harvard University (LLM, SJD); she was awarded a doctorate from Harvard in 2003. While at Harvard Law School, Fleur was a Menzies Scholar and awarded the Laylin Prize. She was also elected to speak on behalf of her graduating LLM class at Harvard Commencement. Fleur has three young children and worked part-time (approximately half-time) between 2005 and 2013.

Location

Sydney

Disciplines

• Law

Affiliation

UNSW Australia

Website

http://www.law.unsw.edu.au/profile/fleur-johns