Associate Professor Laura Grenfell

• Appointments

  Date	Position	Institution name
  2015 - ongoing	Associate Professor in Law	University of Adelaide, Adelaide
  2014 - ongoing	Associate Dean of Diversity and Inclusion, Faculty of the Professions	University of Adelaide, Adelaide
  2009 - 2014	Senior Lecturer in Law	University of Adelaide, Adelaide
  2004 - 2008	Lecturer in Law	University of Adelaide, Adelaide
  2002 - 2003	Associate Lecturer in Law	University of Adelaide, Adelaide
  2000 - 2000	Solicitor	Crown Solicitor's Office of South Australia
  1999 - 1999	Solicitor	Office of the Solicitor-General for South Australia
  1998 - 1998	Judge's Associate to Justice Margaret Nyland	Supreme Court of South Australia, Adelaide

• Education

  Date	Institution name	Country	Title
  	Australian National University, Canberra	Australia	PhD in Law
  	University of Toronto, Toronto	Canada	Masters in Law
  	University of Adelaide, Adelaide	Australia	Bachelor of Laws (Hons)
  	University of Adelaide, Adelaide	Australia	Bachelor of Arts (Hons)

• Certifications

  Date	Title	Institution name	Country
  —	Graduate Certificate of Legal Practice	University of South Australia, Adelaide	Australia

• Research Interests

  Gender Studies Human Rights Law International Law Law Public Policy

• Journals

  Year	Citation
  2024	Grenfell, L., Carter, A., & Olijnyk, A. (2024). Scrutinising the Scrutiny Process in the Courts. Sydney Law Review, 46(3), 267-292. DOI
  2024	Olijnyk, A., & Grenfell, L. (2024). A Breath of Fresh Air? Rights Oversight by the Ombudsman During the Pandemic. Melbourne University Law Review, 47(3), 583.
  2023	Grenfell, L., Mackay, A., & Rose, M. (2023). A human right to daily access to fresh air beyond prisons in Australia?. Australian Journal of Human Rights, 29(2), 1-18. DOI Scopus1
  2023	Mackay, A., Grenfell, L., & Debeljak, J. (2023). A New Aged Care Act for Australia? Examining the Royal Commission’s Proposal for Human Rights Inclusive Legislation. University of New South Wales Law Journal, 46(3), 836-871. DOI Scopus2
  2022	Hewitt, A., & Grenfell, L. (2022). A call for regulatory reform to make work experience accessible rather than an obstacle. Alternative Law Journal, 47(4), 301-307. DOI Scopus2
  2022	Grenfell, L., & Caruana, S. (2022). Are we OPCAT ready? So far, bare bones. Alternative Law Journal, 47(1), 1-10. DOI Scopus3 WoS2
  2022	Grenfell, L. (2022). Towards human rights compliance in Australian prisons. Australian Journal of Human Rights, 28(1), 194-198. DOI
  2022	Hewitt, A., Grenfell, L., Abiyat, H., Hendry, M., Howe, J., & Whittaker, S. (2022). Weighing the Cost of Expectations that Students Complete Legal Work Experience. Legal Education Review, 32(1), 109-128. DOI Scopus3 WoS2
  2021	Grenfell, L., Mackay, A., & Debeljak, J. (2021). Human Rights Accountability and Redress for Systems of Ill treatment in Residential Aged-Care. Monash University Law Review. DOI
  2020	Grenfell, L. (2020). SA's Proposed Scheme to Monitor Places of Detention Needs to be Improved. Law Society Bulletin, 42(10), 38-41.
  2020	Debeljak, J., & Grenfell, L. (2020). Diverse Australian Landscapes of Law Making and Human Rights.
  2020	Grenfell, L. A. (2020). OPCAT is coming - and now is the time for SA to set up its monitoring system for all places of detention. Law Society Bulletin, 42(1), 38-39.
  2020	Grenfell, L., & Moulds, S. (2020). Youth Treatment Orders Bill Highlights Ad Hoc Approach to Rights Scrutiny of Bills. Law Society Bulletin, 41.
  2019	Grenfell, L., & Koch, C. (2019). Internship courses for all? Supporting students undertaking unpaid university-run legal internships. Alternative Law Journal, 44(3), 226-231. DOI Scopus3 WoS2
  2019	Moulds, S., & Grenfell, L. (2019). Youth Treatment Orders Bill Highlights Ad Hoc Approach to Rights-Scrutiny of Bills.
  2019	Grenfell, L., & Koch, C. (2019). Getting A Foot in the Door: Internships & the Legal Profession Authors: Associate Professor Laura Grenfell and Cornelia Koch.
  2019	Grenfell, L. (2019). Aged care, detention and OPCAT. Australian Journal of Human Rights, 25(2), 248-262. DOI Scopus9
  2018	Grenfell, L. A., & Moulds, S. (2018). The role of committees in rights protection in federal and state Parliaments in Australia. University of New South Wales Law Journal, 41(1), 40-79. DOI Scopus11 WoS20
  2018	Grenfell, L. A. (2018). Getting a Foot in the Door: Internships and the Legal Profession. Law Society of SA Bulletin, 40(7), 28-30.
  2016	Grenfell, L. (2016). Rights scrutiny cultures and anti-bike bills in Australian state parliaments: “a bill of rights for the Hell’s Angels". Federal Law Review, 44(3), 363-399.
  2016	Grenfell, L. (2016). Parliaments’ reputation as the ‘pre-eminent’ institution for defending rights: do Parliamentary Committees always enhance this reputation?. Australasian Parliamentary Review, 31(2), 34-45. WoS2
  2015	Grenfell, L. (2015). Realising rights in Timor-Leste. Asian Studies Review, 39(2), 266-283. DOI Scopus6 WoS2
  2015	Grenfell, L. (2015). An Australian spectrum of political rights review: 'continuing to lead by example?'. Public Law Review, 26(1), 19-38. WoS9
  2014	Grenfell, L., & Hewitt, A. (2014). Supporting breastfeeding mothers. Bulletin, 36(7), 24-25.
  2012	Grenfell, L., & Hewitt, A. (2012). Gender regulation: Restrictive, facilitative or transformative laws?. The Sydney Law Review, 34(4), 761-783. WoS13
  2012	Dolgopol, T., & Grenfell, L. (2012). 'Law Students, Internships and A Commitment to Justice'.
  2009	Grenfell, L. (2009). Promoting the rule of law in Timor-Leste. Conflict, Security & Development, 9(2), 213-238. DOI WoS19
  2006	Grenfell, L. (2006). Legal pluralism and the rule of law in Timor Leste. Leiden Journal of International Law, 19(2), 305-337. DOI Scopus33
  2006	Grenfell, L. (2006). Legal Pluralism and the Rule of Law in East Timor.
  2004	Grenfell, L. (2004). The hidden gender of law. Australian Feminist Studies, 19(44), 253-255. DOI
  2004	Grenfell, L. (2004). Paths to transitional justice for Afghan women. Nordic Journal of International Law, 73(4), 505-534. DOI
  2004	Grenfell, L., LaForgia, R., & Bleby, C. (2004). Citizens initiated referendums and parliamentary supremacy. Law Society of South Australia. Bulletin, 26(5), 32-34.
  2004	Grenfell, L. (2004). Feminist Legal Academics Workshop, 19–21 June 2003, Flinders University of South Australia, Adelaide. Australian Feminist Studies, 19(43), 117-123. DOI
  2004	Grenfell, L. (2004). The Participation of Afghan Women in the Reconstruction Process. Human Rights Brief, 12(1), 22-25.
  2003	Grenfell, L. (2003). Embracing Law's Categories: Anti-Discrimination Laws and Transgenderism. Yale Journal of Law and Feminism, 15(1), 51-98.
  2003	Grenfell, L. (2003). Making sex: law's narratives of sex, gender and identity. Legal Studies, 23(1), 66-102. DOI Scopus6
  2003	Grenfell, L. (2003). Carmilla: the "red flag" of late nineteenth-century vampire narratives?. Tessera, 33/34, 152-167.
  2003	Brown, A., & Grenfell, L. (2003). The international crime of gender-based persecution and the Taliban. Melbourne Journal of International Law, 4(2), 347-375.
  2003	Brown, W., & Grenfell, L. (2003). The International Crime of Gender-Based Persecution and the Taliban.

• Books

  Year	Citation
  2020	Grenfell, L., & Debeljak, J. (Eds.) (2020). Law Making and Human Rights: Executive and Parliamentary Scrutiny Across Australian Jurisdictions. Lawbook Co.
  2020	Grenfell, L., & Debeljak, J. (Eds.) (2020). Law Making and Human Rights: Executive and Parliamentary Scrutiny Across Australian Jurisdictions. Lawbook Co.
  2018	Appleby, G., Reilly, A., & Grenfell, L. (2018). Australian Public Law (3 ed.). Docklands, Victoria: Oxford University Press.
  2014	Appleby, G., Reilly, A., & Grenfell, L. (2014). Australian Public Law (2 ed.). Australia: Oxford University Press.
  2013	Grenfell, L. (2013). Promoting the rule of law in post-conflict states. United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. DOI Scopus40
  2011	Reilly, A., Appleby, G., Grenfell, L., & Lacey, W. (2011). Australian public law. Australia: Oxford University Press.

• Book Chapters

  Year	Citation
  2020	Grenfell, L., & Debeljak, J. (2020). Diverse Australian Landscapes of Law Making and Human Rights: Contextualising Law-Making and Human Rights. In J. Debeljak, & L. Grenfell (Eds.), Law Making and Human Rights: Executive and Parliamentary Scrutiny Across Australian Jurisdictions (pp. 1-28). Pyrmont, Sydney; Australia: Thomson Reuters.
  2020	Grenfell, L., & Debeljak, J. (2020). Diverse Australian Landscapes of Law Making and Human Rights: Contextualising Law-Making and Human Rights. In J. Debeljak, & L. Grenfell (Eds.), Law Making and Human Rights: Executive and Parliamentary Scrutiny Across Australian Jurisdictions (pp. 1-28). Pyrmont, Sydney; Australia: Thomson Reuters.
  2020	Grenfell, L. A. (2020). South Australia: Ad hoc and unsystematic rights protection in law making. In J. Debeljak, & L. Grenfell (Eds.), Law Making and Human Rights: Executive and Parliamentary Scrutiny Across Australian Jurisdictions (pp. 499-528). Pyrmont, Sydney, Australia: Thomson Reuters.
  2020	Grenfell, L. A. (2020). Northern Territory: Taking a rights-scrutiny leap forward and then sliding backwards. In J. Debeljak, & L. Grenfell (Eds.), Law Making and Human Rights: Executive and Parliamentary Scrutiny Across Australian Jurisdictions (pp. 561-596). Pyrmont, Sydney, Australia: Thomson Reuters.
  2020	Grenfell, L. A., & Debeljak, J. (2020). Future directions for engaging with human rights in law making. In J. Debeljak, & L. Grenfell (Eds.), Law Making and Human Rights: Executive and Parliamentary Scrutiny Across Australian Jurisdictions (pp. 789-819). Pyrmont, NSW, Australia: Thomson Reuters.
  2020	Grenfell, L. A. (2020). The need to strengthen the monitoring of residential aged care facilities in Australia using a human rights-based approach. In L. Steele (Ed.), Human Rights for People Living with Dementia An Australian Anthology (pp. 32-33). Sydney.
  2017	Grenfell, L. (2017). Legal Pluralism and the Rule of Law in Timor Leste. In Public Law in East Asia (pp. 391-423). Routledge. DOI
  2016	Grenfell, L. A. (2016). Women's role in reconstituting the post-conflict state. In P. Babie, & D. Stephens (Eds.), Imagining Law: Essays in Conversation with Judith Gardam (1 ed., pp. 219-242). Adelaide, South Australia: University of Adelaide Press. DOI
  2016	Grenfell, L. (2016). The UN and 'rule-of-law constitutions'. In J. Farrall, & H. Charlesworth (Eds.), Strengthening the Rule of Law through the UN Security Council (pp. 120-134). New York: Routledge. DOI Scopus3
  2016	Grenfell, L. (2016). Customising equality in post-conflict constitutions. In K. Rubenstein, & G. Young (Eds.), The Public Law of Gender: From the Local to the Global (pp. 147-169). United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. DOI Scopus2
  2011	Grenfell, L. (2011). Promoting the rule of law in Timor-Leste. In Security, Development and Nation-Building in Timor-Leste: A Cross-Sectoral Assessment (pp. 125-147). Great Britain: Routledge. DOI Scopus1
  2009	Grenfell, L. (2009). Legal pluralism and the challenge of building the rule of law in post-conflict states: A case study of Timor-Leste. In B. Bowden, H. Charlesworth, & J. Farrall (Eds.), The Role of International Law in Rebuilding Societies after Conflict: Great Expectations (pp. 157-176). United States of America: Cambridge University Press.
  2009	Grenfell, L. (2009). Harnessing local law in the post-conflict state: The case of Timor-Leste. In William Binchy (Ed.), Timor-Leste. Challenges for justice and human rights in the shadow of the past (pp. 81-110). Dublin: Clarus Press Ltd.

• Conference Items

  Year	Citation
  2022	Olijnyk, A., & Grenfell, L. (2022). Safeguarding Human Rights in the Context of National/State Emergencies. Poster session presented at the meeting of National Meeting of Parliamentary Ombudsmen. Adelaide.
  2022	Olijnyk, A., & Grenfell, L. (2022). Safeguarding Human Rights in the Context of National/State Emergencies. Poster session presented at the meeting of Presentation to staff of Australasian Ombudsman's Offices.

• Report for External Bodies

  Year	Citation
  2024	Koch, C., Grenfell, L., Spyrou, P., Hill, L., & Owens, R. (2024). Submission on the Inquiry into the potential for a Human Rights Act for South Australia.
  2023	Koch, C., Grenfell, L., Hill, L., Louth, J., Olijnyk, A., Stubbs, M., & Sumner AM, U. M. M. (2023). Submission on the draft Bill for a First Nations Voice to South Australia’s Parliament.
  2023	Koch, C., Carter, A., Grenfell, L., Lindell, G., Olijnyk, A., Owens, R., . . . Williams, J. (2023). Submission to the Joint Select Committee on the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice Referendum.
  2023	Grenfell, L., & Moulds, S. (2023). Inquiry into Australia's Human Rights Framework. Australian Parliament House.
  2023	Hewitt, A., Cameron, C., Grant-Smith, D., & Grenfell, L. (2023). Submission to the Department of Education on the Universities Accord Interim Report - Equitable Access to Work-Integrated Learning.
  2021	Hewitt, A., & Grenfell, L. (2021). Submission to TEQSA on Compliance Guide: Work Integrated Learning.
  2020	Grenfell, L., Hill, L., Koch, C., McIntyre, J., Neudorf, L., Olijnyk, A., . . . Spyrou, P. (2020). Submission to the Select Committee on COVID-19.
  2020	Grenfell, L., Hill, L., Koch, C., McIntyre, J., Neudorf, L., Olijnyk, A., . . . Spyrou, P. (2020). Submission to the COVID-19 Response Committee. Adelaide.
  2020	Caruana, S., Phillips, E., Grenfell, L., Naylor, B., & Jones, J. (2020). The implementation of OPCAT in Australia: Submission by the Australia OPCAT Network.
  2020	Caruana, S., Phillips, E., Grenfell, L., Naylor, B., & Jones, J. (2020). The implementation of OPCAT in Australia: Submission by the Australia OPCAT Network.

• Internet Publications

  Year	Citation
  2023	Hewitt, A., Grenfell, L., Grant-Smith, D., & Cameron, C. (2023). Equitable access to work-integrated learning is finally on the agenda in Australia. THE Campus.

Course co-ordinator of Undergraduate courses

• Aboriginal Peoples and the Law (2016-2023)
• International Study Tour: World Indigenous Law Conference (2016)
• Principles of Public Law (large compulsory first-year course) (2009-2010, 2022)
• Human Rights Law: International & National Perspectives (2003-2024)
• Comparative Constitutional Law (2003-2007)
• International Justice and the Rule of Law (Summer intensive 2003/2004)
• Human Rights Internship Programme (2003-2023)
• Law and Justice Internship Programme (2009-2024)
• Native Title Internship (2016) 
   

Course Co-ordinator of Postgraduate courses

• Transitional Justice (2012)
• Comparative Constitutional Law (2003-2007, 2009)
• Human Rights Law (2003-2007, 2017, 2020, 2022)
• Government, Law and Policy (2021, 2023) 

Co-teaching of compulsory subjects including Principles of Public Law (2012, 2018-2023); Australian Constitutional Law (2004), Legal Research and Writing (2002-2003), Introduction to Australian Legal Systems (2002).

• Current Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)

  Date	Role	Research Topic	Program	Degree Type	Student Load	Student Name
  2025	Co-Supervisor	The Resistance to Eradicate: Influence of Culture in Implementing the Absolute Prohibition of Torture in Sri Lanka	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Mrs Thivanka Ratnayake
  2020	Principal Supervisor	The extent of and motivations for post-legislative scrutiny in Australia.	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Part Time	Mr Samuel John Hastings-Fernance

• Past Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)

  Date	Role	Research Topic	Program	Degree Type	Student Load	Student Name
  2021 - 2024	Co-Supervisor	The International Refugee Regime, UNHCR and States: An Analysis of Australia and Pakistan	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Mr Umar Rashid
  2020 - 2024	Co-Supervisor	Non-Judicial Constitutional Review and the Rule of Law: The Case of Ethiopia	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Mr Legesse Tigabu Mengie
  2015 - 2018	Principal Supervisor	The Rights-Protecting Role and Impact of Commonwealth Parliamentary Committees: The Case of Australia's Counter-Terrorism Laws	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Sarah Moulds
  2014 - 2017	Co-Supervisor	African States and the Universal Periodic Review Mechanism: A Study of Effectiveness and the Potential for Acculturation	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Mr . Etone Damian
  2004 - 2011	Co-Supervisor	Healing the Blind Eye? Using the United Nations Protect, Respect, Remedy Framework to Achieve Accountability for Corporate Complicity in Human Rights Abuse	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Ms Catherine Brooks

• Other Supervision Activities

  Date	Role	Research Topic	Location	Program	Supervision Type	Student Load	Student Name
  2010 - 2012	Co-Supervisor	‘A Proposal for the Implementation of Human Rights Treaty Obligations in Armed Conflict	University of Adelaide	PhLaw	Doctorate	Full Time	Samaneh Hassanli

• Committee Memberships

  Date	Role	Committee	Institution	Country
  2018 - ongoing	Member	Gender, Equity and Diversity Committee	University of Adelaide	Australia
  2015 - ongoing	Chair	Faculty of the Professions Diversity and Inclusion Committee	University of Adelaide	Australia

• Position: Associate Professor
• Phone: 83135777
• Email: laura.grenfell@adelaide.edu.au
• Fax: 83134344
• Campus: North Terrace
• Building: Ligertwood, floor 3
• Org Unit: Adelaide Law School