Sue Milne

Teaching Strengths

Blended learning
Legal research
Public law

Ms Sue Milne

Lecturer, Law

School of Law

College of Business and Law

Sue is a Lecturer in Law at Adelaide University specialising in public law, migration and refugee law, human rights, legal research and legal method, with a strong interest in Australian legal history.  Sue is currently a PhD candidate researching the constitutional validity of citizenship stripping. Sue holds an LLB from the Australian National University, and a BA (Library Studies) from the South Australian Institute of Technology.  
Sue has enaged in course development, coordination and lectures in Migratrion & Refugee Law, Foundations of Law, Principles of Public Law and Constitutional Law.  Sue's research interests and publications are in the fields of Public law, Constitutional law, Legal method & legal research; and Legal History. 

Sue is currently undertaking PhD research into the constitutional validity of government actions to remove (revoke) Australian citizenship.   This research seeks to identify the core nature of Australian citizenship and the lawful grounds by which this connection to the state might be broken.  

Year Citation
2024 McKay, J., Milne, S., Shameen, S., & Shivani. (2024). 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, (13), 158-172.
2021 Milne, S. (2021). The exercise of emergency powers by the executive in COID-19 times: what recent cases say about constitutional protection of our freedoms. Bulletin: the Law Society of South Australia Journal, 43(8), 16-18.
2020 Eamonn, K., Felicity, G. Q. C., Milne, S., & Read, C. (2020). As lockdown lifts, it is time to repatriate women and children held in Syrian camps. ANZIL Perspective, (14), 3-8.
2020 Milne, S., Read, C., Kelly, E., & Gerry, F. (2020). Allegiance is a bond of protection not a means through which to deliver a punitive moral judgement. ANZSIL Perspective, (16), 16-20.
2019 Plater, D., & Milne, S. (2019). ”Assuredly there never was murder more foul and more unnatural”? Poisoning, women and murder in 19th Century Australia. Canterbury Law Review, 25, 53-94.
2015 Milne, S. (2015). The second or subsequent criminal appeal, the prerogative of mercy and the judicial inquiry: the continuing advance of post-conviction review. Adelaide law review, 36(1), 211-240.
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2014 Plater, D., & Milne, S. (2014). ‘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, 33(1), 83-140.
2013 Plater, D., Duncan, J., & Milne, S. (2013). 'Innocent victim of circumstance' or 'a very devil incarnate'?: the trial and execution of Elizabeth Woolcock in South Australia in 1873. Flinders Law Journal, 15(2), 315-380.
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2012 Plater, D., & Milne, S. (2012). '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(article no. 1), 1-43.
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2011 Milne, S. (2011). The bottom line for review of an assessment - a case note on Commissioner of Taxation v Futuris Corporation Ltd. Monash University law review, 36(2), 181-206.
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2010 Churches, S. C., & Milne, S. J. (2010). Kable, K-Generation, Kirk and totani : validation of criminal intelligence at the expense of natural justice in Ch III courts. Australian journal of administrative law, 18(1), 29-43.
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2009 Milne, S. J. (2009). Legal Research Methods in the US and Europe. Australian Law Librarian, 17(1), 61-63.

Year Citation
2012 Plater, D., & Milne, S. (2012). The Capital Case of Sarah Mcgregor and Mary Maloney in New South Wales in 1834: 'Justice is Due Even to Them'. In Legal Histories of the British Empires (pp. 1-51). Singapore: National University of Singapore.
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Year Citation
2025 Milne, S., & Gerry, F. (2025). Taking responsibility for those who belong to Australia including women and children from Syrian camps. Melbourne Law School, The University of Melbourne.
2024 Milne, S. (2024). Constitutional challenges to the stripping of Australian citizenship: an update. EUI Global Citizenship Observatory.
2021 Milne, S., Gerry, F., Kelly, E., & Read, C. (2021). Like David Hicks, the Australian ‘Shamima Begum’ Should Issue a Writ for Habeas Corpus. International Commission of Jurists.
2020 Milne, S., & McIntyre, J. (2020). The Alien and the Constitution: the Legal History of the 'Alien' Power of the Australian Commonwealth. SSRN.
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2017 Milne, S. (2017). Aliens, executive power and the rule of law. AusPub Law) Australian Public Law blog.

Courses I teach

  • LAWS 1020 Legal Policy, Lawmaking and Justice (2025)
  • LAWS 2008 Constitutional Law (2025)
  • SOCU 2022 Justice & Society Study Tour (2025)
  • LAWS 1020 Legal Policy, Lawmaking and Justice (2024)
  • LAWS 3088 Migration Law (2024)

Programs I'm associated with

  • DBLD - Laws Double Degree (5 years)
  • DBLS - Bachelor of Business (Legal Studies)

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