Professor, Griffith Law School
Professor Susan Harris Rimmer focuses on international human rights law, climate justice and gender equality in the Griffith Law School in Brisbane (Meanjin), Australia.
She led the independent review of the Queensland Human Rights Act 2019 in 2024, and the report was tabled in March 2025. Sue leads the Climate Justice theme of the Griffith Climate Action Beacon. She is the founder of the EveryGen coalition which seeks to amplify the voices of current and future generations and highlight the long-term impacts of today’s policy decisions.
Susan provided the independent Human Rights Assessment for the successful FIFA Women’s World Cup Australia and New Zealand 2032 Bid in 2020 and was the Human Rights Adviser to GOLDOC for the 2018 Commonwealth Games.
Susan is the editor of Climate Politics in Oceania (MUP 2024 with Caitlin Byrne and Wes Morgan), Futures of International Criminal Justice (Routledge 2022, with Emma Palmer, Edwin Bikundo and Martin Clark), the Research Handbook for Feminist Engagement with International Law (Edward Elgar 2019, with Kate Ogg); and author of Gender and Transitional Justice: The Women of Timor Leste (Routledge, 2010) and over 46 refereed academic works in leading journals.
Prior to joining Griffith, Susan was the Director of Studies at the ANU Asia-Pacific College of Diplomacy and a Non-resident Fellow at Chatham House. Prior to academia, Sue was the Advocacy lead at the Australian Council for International Development (ACFID) and has also worked for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, the National Council of Churches and the Australian Parliament.
