Danielle Ireland-Piper is the Academic Director and Associate Professor at the National Security College, Australian National University. Danielle’s expertise includes national security law, constitutional law, transnational crime, and international law. Her work is recognised internationally and she is the author of books, journal articles, and public commentary.  She has experience working in the Australian, Queensland, and New Wales governments across both law and policy roles, including on human rights, health, community services, anti-corruption, and international crime cooperation. She has also worked in private legal practice and was an Associate in the Federal Court of Australia.  Danielle has a PhD from the University of Queensland and a Master of Laws from the University of Cambridge, where she was a Chevening Scholar. She has been a visiting scholar at the University College Dublin in Ireland, Utrecht University in The Netherlands, Jindal Global University in India, the University of South Pacific in Fiji, and the University of Basel in Switzerland. Danielle is a sometimes hosts of the National Security Podcast and supervises doctoral and masters candidates on issues of public and international law.

Recent publications

• Danielle Ireland-Piper (Ed), National Security Law in Australia (Federation Press, In Press, 2024)
  Danielle Ireland-Piper, Extraterritoriality in East Asia: Extraterritorial Criminal Jurisdiction in China, Japan, and Korea (Edward Elgar, 2021)
• Danielle Ireland-Piper, Accountability in Extraterritoriality: An International and Comparative Constitutional Law Perspective (Edward Elgar, 2017)
• Danielle Ireland-Piper, Makaela Fehlhaber, and Alana Bonenfant, ‘State Responsibility for Corporate Actors in Outer Space’ Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Planetary Science, Oxford University Research Encyclopedias 2023
• Danielle Ireland-Piper, “Outer Space and the Indo-Pacific Region” in Foundations of Australian Space Policy, Regional Commentary, edited by Tristan Moss, pp. 13 – 24, Brisbane: Griffith Asia Institute, Griffith University, 2023
• Danielle Ireland-Piper, 'More Climate, more gender, more targets, same budget - how will this play out?' 14 March 2024, The Intel, Development Policy Lab
• Danielle Ireland-Piper and Sue Thomson, ‘Beyond the Brisbane Line: What Queensland is Crucial to Australia’s National Security’, Lowy Interpreter, 25 July 2023
• Danielle Ireland-Piper, ‘Extraterritoriality in the Commonwealth: Case Studies from Australia, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom’ in Austen Parrish and Cedric Ryngaert (Eds.) Extraterritoriality in International Law (Edward Elgar, 2023)