Rate My Professor Danielle Ireland-Piper

Associate Professor Danielle Ireland-Piper serves as Academic Director and Associate Professor at the National Security College, Australian National University. She earned a PhD from the University of Queensland and a Master of Laws from the University of Cambridge as a Chevening Scholar. Her academic career includes twelve years at Bond University Law Faculty, where she taught and researched human rights and national security law. Prior professional experience encompasses roles in the Australian, Queensland, and New South Wales governments addressing law and policy in human rights, health, community services, anti-corruption, and international crime cooperation. She practiced law privately, served as an Associate to the Hon. Chief Justice Susan Kiefel in the Federal Court of Australia from 2002 to 2003, and held visiting scholar positions at University College Dublin, Utrecht University, Jindal Global University, the University of the South Pacific, and the University of Basel. Ireland-Piper also holds an Honorary Adjunct Associate Professor position at Bond University.

Her research focuses on national security law, constitutional law, transnational crime, and international law, including space law and human rights, with particular attention to extraterritoriality. Key publications include National Security Law in Australia (editor, Federation Press, 2024), an interdisciplinary volume covering judicial power, federalism, counter-terrorism, foreign interference, cyberspace, biosecurity, and space law; Extraterritoriality in East Asia: Extraterritorial Criminal Jurisdiction in China, Japan, and South Korea (Edward Elgar, 2021); and Accountability in Extraterritoriality: An International and Comparative Constitutional Law Perspective (Edward Elgar, 2017). In 2025, she was appointed a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law for significant contributions to the discipline. Ireland-Piper supervises doctoral and masters students on public and international law topics and hosts the National Security Podcast.