Su Htun
Su Yin Htun, Ph.D. is an adjunct instructor with the Human Rights Practice Program and formerly a Professor of Law at the University of Mandalay in Myanmar. She is currently also a research associate at the College of Law affiliated with the School of Cultural and Social Transformation at the University of Utah.
Dr. Su has been a Fulbright scholar in the US-ASEAN program and is now a Scholar Rescue Fund winner from the Institute of International Education (IIE). She was awarded as an exile scholar by the Reconceptualizing Exile Programme from the Global Campus Human Rights, which is a network of 100 universities worldwide, the largest globally, that focuses on human rights education in higher education. She is one of the initiators of human rights education at formal degree programs in the universities in Myanmar.
Dr. Su has organized numerous training programs for human rights law teaching, collaborating with institutions such as Columbia University in the USA, Australian National University in Australia, Raoul Wallenberg Institute (RWI) in Sweden, Denmark Institute of Human Rights in Denmark, and Chaing Mai University and Mahidol University, both in Thailand. Past affiliations include serving as a research fellow at RWI in Sweden, the Central European University in Hungary, and the Asian Law Institute at the National University of Singapore, besides participating in the Fulbright Program.
Dr. Su's specialization is in human rights law, and she teaches constitutional law and human rights law. Her research focuses on the human rights of vulnerable individuals in political, criminal, and migration contexts from a legal perspective. She offers intellectual support to victims of human rights violations through research writing, policy recommendations to the government, pro bono legal services to marginalized individuals, and advocacy training for youths. Dr. Su has multiple international publications of her research work in which citizenship and stateless issues were the most prominent themes.
Dr. Su fled from Burma to USA in 2024 with refugee status as she was wanted by military junta due to her voluntary taking part in the Civil Disobedience Movement (CDM). She is still voluntarily working at the International Affairs Department of the Ministry of Education under the National Unity Government, Myanmar. Moreover, she keeps promoting human rights education for university students and youths in Myanmar at the formal, non-formal and informal education settings.