Susan Breau is Legal Consultant to Oxford Research Group's (ORG) Every Casualty rogramme. She has been Professor of International Law at Flinders University, Australia, since July 2010. Her research interests are public international law and the international protection of human rights, particularly those issues relating to the use of force.

She was awarded her PhD in 2003 at LSE for her research into Humanitarian Intervention under the supervision of Professor Christopher Greenwood. She was the Dorset Fellow in Public International Law at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law for three years. Prior to that appointment, she was a lecturer in international law and human rights at Queen's University Belfast where she assisted in the administration of their LLM in Human Rights Programmes and she has also lectured on the law of armed conflict in the LLM programme at the London School of Economics.