Professor Susan Breau

Susan Carolyn Breau is a Professor of Law specialising in international law. She is also a Senior Associate Research Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies and their Director of Research Students. From 2018-2021 she was Dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of Victoria Canada.  

Previously she was Head of the School of Law at the University of Reading. In her academic career she has also taught at Queen’s University Belfast, the University of Surrey and Flinders University in Australia.  She was also the Dorset Fellow in International Law at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law from 2003-2006. Her research primarily focuses on international law on the use of force, international humanitarian law, international human rights law and disaster law. She has acted as a consultant to international organisations including the Commonwealth Secretariat and the International Commission on Missing Persons. She is a member of the steering committee of the International Disaster and Emergency Law Network (IDEAL NET). Her most recent publication is the 2nd edition of the Research Handbook on Disasters and International Law (Elgar 2004) which she co-edited with Dr Marie Aronsson-Storrier. She obtained her LLM in 1999 and her PhD in 2003 from the London School of Economics. 

Prior to her academic life, she practiced law for 18 years in Kingston, Ontario Canada.