Leanne Weber is an Adjunct Professor in the Canberra Law School with a multi-disciplinary background in the social sciences. She researches policing and border control using criminological and human rights frameworks. Leanne holds an MA in the theory and practice of human rights from the University of Essex, and an MPhil and PhD in criminology from the University of Cambridge.
Leanne held a Research Professor post in the CLS from February 2021 to December 2024, having previously been a Future Fellow in the School of Social Sciences and Director of the Border Crossing Observatory at Monash University. Prior to that she was a Larkins Research Fellow at the same institution. 
Leanne has produced, or co-produced, eleven academic books and published more than 50 book chapters and journal articles. She has twice been awarded the Christine M Alder Book Prize by the ANZ Society of Criminology; in 2013 for Globalization and Borders: Death at the Global Frontier (2011, Palgrave, with Sharon Pickering) and in 2024 for Place, Race and Politics: The Anatomy of a Law and Order Crisis (2021, Emerald, with Blaustein, Benier, Wickes and Johns). 

She received a lifetime achievement award from the ANZ Society of Criminology in 2024 for her contribution to the development of border criminology and promotion of human rights perspectives within the discipline.

Latest book  A research agenda for a human rights  centred criminology

Latest article How automated is automatic visa cancellation in Australia?

Current projects:

Analysing interactions within the criminal deportation system (DP210100931 with M Marmo, A Gerard, F Gordon, M Bosworth)

Previous ARC-funded projects:

Globalisation and the policing of internal borders (FT140101044)

Policing Migration in Australia: an analysis of onshore migration policing networks (DP0774554)

Exploring the experience of security in the Vietnamese Australian Community: practical implications for policing (LPO776899,with DL Meredyth,TN Thomas,MD Gilding,NL Cherry; Industry Partner Victoria Police). 

Fluid Security in the Asia Pacific (DP1093107, with S Pickering, C Tazreiter and M Segrave)

Exporting Risk: The Australian Deportation Project (DP110102453, with S Pickering, M Grewcock and M  Segrave).