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Professor Sue Farran

Professor of Comparative and Plural Laws

Background

Sue joined 缅北禁地 Law School from the University of Northumbria in 2019 having previously held posts at the University of Dundee, the University of the South Pacific (based in the Republic of Vanuatu), the University of the West of England and the University of KwaZulu Natal in South Africa.

Sue's research interest lie in the field of human rights and property, encompassing in particular the rights of women, children and indigenous people, and land, natural resources and intellectual property. Many of her publications use case studies from the Pacific island states to explore larger themes. Much of her work adopts a comparative focus and she is interested in legal pluralism and the interface of traditional and modern systems of law.

In 2021 Sue was appointed at one of six Research Fellows funded by the AHRC/ESRC?FCDO seconded to the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office of the UK government to provide research analysis within the Asia Pacific Research Group of the South East Asia and Pacific Directorate. Her geographical area of focus is the Pacific Island States. Initially for two years, this was extended by the FCDO for a further two years, ending in December 2024.

Research

I currently hold an ESRC IAA grant focussed on advancing the Pacific as an Ocean of Peace following the adoption of a Declaration to that effect at the Pacific Islands Leaders's meeting in Solomon Islands in 2024. This grant facilitated field work in Fiji working with academic partners and the Pacific Centre for Peace-building, a civl society based in Fiji with regional reach.In 2025 I was appointed a Sir Percy Spender Research Fellow at the University of Sydney. I am a research affiliate of RESI (Resilient and Sustainable Islands)


Between 2021 and 2024 I held an ESRC/AHRC FCO funded Research Fellowship under which I was seconded to work for the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development office of Her Majesty's Government in Whitehall. I was attached to the Asia Pacific Research Group focussing on the regional area of the Pacific, preparing research papers, briefs and minutes for policy makers, diplomats and ministers. This role draws on my many years of research a range of issues relevant to Pacific Island States but also stretches me to consider many others. In 2024 I led a team of UK academics to Fiji to engage with and listen to stakeholders to determine understandings of the concept of the Pacific as an Ocean of Peace, using arts-based methodologies to capture the voices of Pacific people. This was funded by the FCDO via the British High Commission in Fiji. This work led to being shortlisted for an Engagement and Place award.


I also received university and faculty funding to take forward the impact dimension of research undertaken in 2020-21 under a GCRF funded project looking at the experiences of women in the management of marine resources in the plural legal systems of Fiji, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu.

I have published widely both as a single author and co-author as well as editing collections of papers both in special journal issues and monographs. I also act as a reviewer for various journals and welcome working with researchers from other disciplines.

Teaching

I currently teach Land Law at undergraduate level and Legal Research Methodology and theory at post graduate level.

Publications

  • Articles

    • Farran S. . The University of Queensland Law Journal 2023, 42(3), 411-432.
    • Farran S. . China Oceans Law Review 2022, 18, 1-46.
    • Farran S. The Search for an International Court of Justice Opinion on Climate Change. Environmental Rights Review 2022. Submitted.
    • Farran S. . Environmental Law Review 2022, 24(3), 173–190.
    • Corrin J, Farran S. . Comparative Law Journal of the Pacific 2022, 27, 33-56.
    • Farran S, Corrin J. . Child and Family Law Quarterly 2021, 33(1).
    • Farran S. . Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal 2021, 24, 1-32.
    • Farran S, Smith R. . The Round Table: The Commonwealth Journal of International Studies 2021, 110(2), 217-231.
    • Farran S, Smith R. . King's Law Journal 2021, 32(1), 84-95.
    • Farran S. . International Journal of Children's Rights 2021, 30(1), 72-97.
    • Farran S. . Journal of South Pacific Law 2021, 23, 11-20.
    • Farran S. . Environmental Law Review 2020, 22(4), 266-279.
    • Farran S. . Trusts and Trustees 2020, 26(2), 138-148.
    • Farran S, Hewitson R. . Trusts and Trustees 2020, 26(7), 613-619.
    • Farran S. . Revista General de Derecho Publico Comparado 2019.
    • Farran S. . Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law 2018, 50, 119-144.
    • Farran S. . Questions of International Law 2018, 71-84.
    • Smith R, Farran S. . The Round Table 2016, 105(4), 363-375.
    • Corrin J, Farran S, Paterson D. . Journal of South Pacific Law 2016, 2016(1), 1-4.
    • Farran S, Corrin J. . Law and Development Review 2016, 10(1), 1-27.
    • Farran S. . The Round Table 2016, 105(4), 401-414.
    • Farran S. . Journal of South Pacific Law 2015, 2015(2), A1-A23.
    • O'Brien D, Farran S. . Journal of International and Comparative Law 2015, 2(2), 326-559.
    • Farran S. . New Zealand Yearbook of International Law 2014, 12, 153-173.
    • Farran S. . Queen Mary Journal of Intellectual Property 2014, 4, 277-296.
    • Farran S. . Journal of South Pacific Law 2014, 2014(1), C14-C26.
    • Farran S. . Development Studies Research 2014, 1(1), 28-41.
    • Farran S. . Pólemos: Journal of Law, Literature and Culture 2014, 8(2), 235-251.
    • Farran S. . The Law Teacher 2013, 47(3), 345-367.
    • Forsyth M, Farran S. . Third World Quarterly 2013, 34(3), 516-533.
    • Farran S. . International Journal of Children's Rights 2012, 20(2), 199-223.
    • Farran S. . Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law 2011, 43(64), 65-90.
    • Farran S. . Liverpool Law Review 2010, 31(1), 13-28.
    • Farran S. . International Journal of Law in Context 2010, 6(1), 1-21.
    • Farran S. . International and Comparative Law Quarterly 2009, 58(1), 181-195.
    • Farran S. . Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law 2008, 40(58), 93-113.
    • Farran S. . International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law 2006, 21(4), 389-421.
    • Farran S. . Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law 2006, 38(52), 77-105.
    • Farran S, Cabrelli D. . Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law 2006, 13(4), 403-443.
    • Farran S, Su'a A. . Commonwealth Law Bulletin 2005, 31(1), 19-31.
    • Farran S, Hill ER. . Commonwealth Law Bulletin 2002, 28(2), 1108-1125.

  • Authored Books

    • Forsyth M, Farran S. . Cambridge: Intersentia, 2015.
    • Farran S, Gallen J, Hendry J, Rautenbach C. . Ashgate Publishing, 2015.
    • Farran S, Örücü E, Donlan SP. . Ashgate Publishing, 2014.
    • Farran S. . Routledge-Cavendish, 2009.
    • Farran S, Paterson D. . Routledge-Cavendish, 2004.

  • Book Chapters

    • Farran S. . In: Matthew Flinders, Gergana Dimova, Chris Monaghan, ed. Understanding Accountability: New Perspectives on a Fractured World. Abingdon, Oxon; New York: Routledge, 2025, pp.103-122.
    • Farran S. . In: Burri, T; Trinidad, J, ed. The International Court of Justice and Chagos Islands. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020, pp.1-25. Submitted.
    • Farran S. . In: Donlan, SP and Mair, J, ed. Comparative Law: Mixes, Movments and Metaphors. London and New York: Routledge, 2020, pp.31-46.
    • Farran S. . In: Wewerinke-Singh, M; Hamman,E, ed. Environmental Law and Governance in the Pacific. Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 2020.
    • Farran S. . In: Ben McFarlane and Sinéad Agnew, ed. Modern Studies in Property Law, Volume 10. Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2019.
    • Farran S. . In: Allen S; Bankes N; Ravna O, ed. The Rights of Indigenous Peoples in Marine Areas. Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2019, pp.319-340.
    • Farran S, Corrin J. . In: Jennifer Corrin and Sue Farran, ed. The Plural Practice of Adoption in Pacific Island States. London: Springer, 2019, pp.1-13.
    • Corrin J, Farran S. . In: Jennifer Corrin and Sue Farran, ed. The Plural Practice of Adoption in Pacific Island States. London: Springer, 2018, pp.147-169.
    • Farran S. . In: Stephen Allen and Chris Monaghan, ed. Fifty Years of the British Indian Ocean Territory: Legal Perspectives. Cham: Springer, 2018, pp.293-317.
    • Farran S. . In: Petra Butler, Eva Lein and Rhonson Salim, ed. Integration and International Dispute Resultion in Small States. Cham: Springer, 2018, pp.141-163.
    • Tupou M, Farran S. . In: Jennifer Corrin and Sue Farran, ed. The Plural Practice of Adoption in Pacific Island States. London: Springer, 2018, pp.129-145.
    • Farran S, Smith R. . In: Stalford, H; Hollingsworth, K; Gilmore, S, ed. Rewriting Children's Rights Judgments: From Academic Vision to New Practice. Oxford, UK: Hart Publishing, 2017.
    • Farran S. . In: Ruth Thomas-Pellicer, Vito De Lucia and Sian Sullivan, ed. Contributions to Law, Philosophy and Ecology: Exploring Re-Embodiments. Abingdon: Routledge, 2016, pp.192-211.
    • Farran S. . In: Vernon Valentine, Mohamed Y. Mattar and Anna Koppel, ed. Mixed Legal Systems, East and West. Ashgate Publishing, 2015, pp.123-140.
    • Farran S, Rautenbach C. . In: Sue Farran, James Gallen, Jennifer Hendry and Christa Rautenbach, ed. The Diffusion of Law: The Movement of Laws and Norms Around the World. Ashgate Publishing, 2015, pp.1-6.
    • Farran S. . In: Christophe Geiger, ed. Research Handbook on Human Rights and Intellectual Property. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2015, pp.641-658.
    • Farran S. . In: Emma Gilberthorpe and Gavin Hilson, ed. Natural Resource Extraction and Indigenous Livelihoods: Development Challenges in an Era of Globalization. Ashgate Publishing, 2014, pp.179-200.
    • Farran S. . In: Sue Farran, Esin Örücü and Seán Patrick Donlan, ed. A Study of Mixed Legal Systems: Endangered, Entrenched or Blended. Ashgate Publishing, 2014, pp.13-34.
    • Farran S. . In: Niko Besnier and Kalissa Alexeyeff, ed. Gender on the Edge: Transgender, Gay, and Other Pacific Islanders. University of Hawaii Press, 2014, pp.347-370.

  • Conference Proceedings (inc. Abstracts)

    • Farran S. . In: Just Transition, Security and Law Conference 2023. 2023, Dundee: Dundee Just Transition Hub.
    • Farran S. . In: The Neglected Decade: legal issues of the 1950s. 2022, Online: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London.
    • Farran S. . In: Society of Legal Scholars Annual Conference. 2022, King's College, London: Society of Legal Scholars.
    • Farran S. . In: Commission on Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law: Legal Status and Identity Panel. 2018, Ottawa, Canada: Commission on Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law.
    • Farran S. . In: 12th Biennial MSPL Conference: Modern Studies in Property Law 2018. 2018, London.
    • Farran S. . In: Regional Identities & Coastal Communities of the Pacific. 2018, Aveiro, Portugal: New Zealand Studies Association.

  • Edited Book

    • Corrin J, Farran S, ed. . London: Springer, 2018.

  • Editorials

    • Farran S, Smith R. . Round Table 2016, 105(4), 351-354.
    • Farran S, Hultin N. . Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law 2016, 48(3), 347-353.

  • Note

    • Care JC, Farran S. . The Law Teacher 1997, 31(3), 283-309.

  • Report

    • Crook T, Farran S, Roell E. . Brussels: European Commission, 2016.