Professor Joanna Howe

Associate Dean (Research), Adelaide Law School

Dr Joanna Howe is a Professor in Law at the University of Adelaide and a consultant with Harmers Workplace Lawyers.

She holds a Doctorate of Philosophy in Law from the University of Oxford where she studied as a Rhodes Scholar. In 2021 Joanna was appointed by the Minister for Immigration to the Ministerial Advisory Council on Skilled Migration and in 2022 by the Minister for Home Affairs as part of an expert panel to review the Australian migration program. In 2019 Joanna was appointed as the Australian representative to an expert ILO working group on temporary labour migration.

Joanna is a leading expert on the legal regulation of temporary labour migration. She is project leader on a number of significant national research grants and the author of two books and her work is internationally recognised. Her edited collection Temporary Labour Migration in the Global Era (with Prof Rosemary Owens) is the seminal international work on the regulation of transnational migration flows between countries on a temporary basis, and her monograph Rethinking Job Security provides a three-country study of unfair dismissal law.

Joanna is the recipient of the SA InDaily 40 under 40 Award and the University of Adelaide's Women's Research Excellence Award.