Fran Humphries is an Associate Professor in environmental law at Griffith University Law School, Australia and is the Director of the Griffith BioLawHub. She has a background in government where she worked in fisheries and biosecurity law and policy. She received her Bachelor of Laws with Honours and her Bachelor of Arts from the University of Queensland in 1998, earned her Master of Laws from Dalhousie University in 2000 and her Doctor of Philosophy from Griffith University in 2016. Her research focuses on a range of marine and environmental legal issues and she has led large research projects for the United Nations, WorldFish, governments and other organisations.