Fleur Johns

Fleur Johns is Professor at UNSW's Faculty of Law and Justice working in the areas of international law, legal theory, and law and technology. In 2021-24, Fleur is also Visiting Professor at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden. Fleur studies practices of governance on the global plane. In recent years, her work has focused on the role of automation and digital technology in global legal relations, especially in development, humanitarian aid and disaster relief. She has published four books and will shortly be releasing her fifth, entitled '#Help: Digital Humanitarianism and the Remaking of International Order'.

Before joining UNSW, Fleur was Co-Director of the Sydney Centre for International Law at the University of Sydney and she has also held visiting appointments in Canada, Europe, the UK and the US. Prior to entering academia, Fleur practised corporate law in New York, specialising in international project finance in Latin America. She has served on a range of not-for-profit boards and management committees and currently serves on the Editorial Boards of the American Journal of International Law, and the journals Technology & Regulation, and Science, Technology & Human Values, as well as an Advisory Editor for the London Review of International Law and the Australian Feminist Law Journal.

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.