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Associate Professor Emma Palmer is a Senior Lecturer and Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Researcher Award Fellow at Griffith Law School, Griffith University. She obtained her PhD in 2017 and LLM in 2011 from UNSW Law, as well as an LLB (Hons) and BCom from the Australian National University (2001-2006). Admitted as a solicitor in New South Wales, Palmer previously worked as an investment analyst and Research Assistant at UNSW. She is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, a member of the Griffith Asia Institute, Secretary of the Association of Mainland Southeast Asia Scholars, and has served as a Director for Women's Legal Service NSW.

Palmer's academic interests encompass international criminal law, international humanitarian law, human rights law, public international law, and comparative law, with emphasis on Southeast Asia and the Asia-Pacific region. Her current ARC DECRA-funded project (DE250100597) examines universal jurisdiction for prosecuting international crimes in the Asia-Pacific. Key publications include her monograph Adapting International Criminal Justice in Southeast Asia: Beyond the International Criminal Court (Cambridge University Press, 2020); co-authored book The Amicus Curiae in International Criminal Justice (Hart Publishing, 2020); and co-edited volume Futures of International Criminal Justice (Routledge, 2022). Prominent articles feature "Roads and Rules: What Does Infrastructure Reveal about International Law?" (Asian Journal of International Law, 2024), "Regulating Infrastructure: Human Rights and the Sustainable Development Goals in Myanmar" (Human Rights Law Review, 2021), "Transformative Reparations for Women and Girls at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia" (International Journal of Transitional Justice, 2016), and "A shift in attitude?: Institutional change and sexual and gender-based crimes at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia" (Leiden Journal of International Law, 2017). Through her research, Palmer influences discourse on international accountability, gender justice, and norm contestation by civil society actors.