Dr Rachel Killean is a senior lecturer at the University of Sydney School of Law. Dr Killean's multidisciplinary research centres on responses to violence. She has a particular focus on transitional justice, victims’ rights, and legal innovations that seek to prevent or repair environmental harms. Dr Killean is the co-convener of the ANZSOC Green Criminology thematic group and the deputy director of the Australian Centre for Climate and Environmental Law. She sits on the editorial board for the Journal of Genocide Research, Current Issues in Criminal Justice, and the Sydney Law Review. She also directs the Sydney Law School's social justice podcast, 'Just Cause'.

Dr Killean will be presenting some of her research in a public talk on April 7 in a lecture titled "Should Destroying the Planet Be a Crime?"  She will be in residence at Green College for the first half of April 2026.