Rate My Professor Sue Milne

Sue Milne is a Lecturer in Law at Adelaide University, within the College of Business and Law. She holds a Bachelor of Laws (LLB) from the Australian National University and a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Library Studies from the South Australian Institute of Technology. Currently, she is a PhD candidate at Adelaide University, researching the constitutional validity of government actions to revoke Australian citizenship, aiming to define the core nature of citizenship and the lawful grounds for severing this state connection. Milne's research specializations and academic interests include public law, migration and refugee law, human rights, legal research and legal method, constitutional law, and Australian legal history. She has contributed to legal education through course development, coordination, and lecturing in Migration & Refugee Law, Foundations of Law, Principles of Public Law, and Constitutional Law.

Milne has produced a substantial body of scholarly work. She authored A Practical Guide to Legal Research (Thomson Reuters, 2012) and co-authored its second edition with Kay Tucker (Thomson Reuters, 2010). In 2018, she co-authored the chapter 'The Executive Power' with The Hon Justice M. Hinton in The Crown: Essays on its Manifestation, Power and Accountability (University of Adelaide Press). Key journal articles include 'Lessons in legal pedagogy, student reflection, emotion and cultural awareness of Talanoa in an environmental law student study tour to Fiji' (ICUN AEL Journal of Environmental Law, 2024, with J. McKay, S. Shameen, and Shivani); 'The exercise of emergency powers by the executive in COVID-19 times: what recent cases say about constitutional protection of our freedoms' (Bulletin: the Law Society of South Australia Journal, 2021); 'Allegiance is a bond of protection not a means through which to deliver a punitive moral judgement' (ANZSIL Perspective, 2020, with C. Read, E. Kelly, and F. Gerry); and 'As lockdown lifts, it is time to repatriate women and children held in Syrian camps' (ANZIL Perspective, 2020, with J. Eamonn, F. Gerry QC, and C. Read). Collaborations with David Plater explore Australian legal history, such as '"Assuredly there never was murder more foul and more unnatural"? Poisoning, women and murder in 19th Century Australia' (Canterbury Law Review, 2019); '"All that's good and virtuous or depraved and abandoned in the extreme"? Capital punishment and mercy for female offenders in colonial Australia, 1824 to 1865' (University of Tasmania Law Review, 2014); '"Innocent victim of circumstance" or "a very devil incarnate"?: the trial and execution of Elizabeth Woolcock in South Australia in 1873' (Flinders Law Journal, 2013); and '"The quality of mercy is not strained": the Norfolk Island mutineers and the exercise of the death penalty in colonial Australia 1824-1860' (Australian and New Zealand Law and History Society e-Journal, 2012). Additional publications cover post-conviction review ('The second or subsequent criminal appeal, the prerogative of mercy and the judicial inquiry', Adelaide Law Review, 2015) and tax disputes ('The bottom line for review of an assessment - a case note on Commissioner of Taxation v Futuris Corporation Ltd', Monash University Law Review, 2011). She has submitted reports to parliamentary inquiries on the Australian Government's COVID-19 response (2020) and Section 44 of the Constitution (2018).