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Professor Gabrielle Appleby
PhD, University of Adelaide, 2012
LLM, University of Melbourne, 2009
LLB, University of Queensland, 2005
Dr Gabrielle Appleby is a Professor at the Law Faculty of University of New South Wales (Sydney). She researches and teaches in public law, with her areas of expertise including the role, powers and accountability of the Executive; parliamentary law and practice; the role of government lawyers; the integrity of the judicial branch and First Nations constitutional recognition. She is the Director of The Judiciary Project at the Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law, the constitutional consultant to the Clerk of the Australian House of Representatives and a member of the Indigenous Law Centre. Gabrielle was the founding editor of Australia’s national public law blog, AUSPUBLAW (www.auspublaw.org).ÌýIn 2015-2018, Gabrielle was a Chief Investigator on the ARC Discovery Project, Law, Order and Federalism, looking at the effects of the High Court’s chapter III jurisprudence on State government law and order policy development. In 2016-2017, she worked as a pro bono constitutional adviser to the Regional Dialogues and the First Nations Constitutional Convention that led to the Uluru Statement from the Heart. Her books includeÌýThe Judge, The Judiciary and the Court: Individual, Collegial and Institutional Judicial Dynamics in AustraliaÌý(Cambridge University Press, 2021),ÌýJudicial Federalism in AustraliaÌý(Federation Press, 2021),ÌýAustralian Public LawÌý(3rd ed, Oxford University Press, 2018),ÌýThe Role of the Solicitor-General: Negotiating Law, Politics and the Public InterestÌý(Hart Publishing, 2016);ÌýThe Critical Judgments Project: Re-reading Monis v The QueenÌý(Federation Press, 2016) andÌýThe Tim Carmody AffairÌý(NewSouth Publishing, 2016). Gabrielle has also spent time working for the Queensland Crown Solicitor and the Victorian Government Solicitor’s Office.
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- Publications
- Media
- Grants
- Awards
- Research Activities
- Engagement
- Teaching and Supervision
2017 |
ÁñÁ«¹ÙÍø Research Infrastructure Fund Ìý |
Edited Collections (Law): Metadata Repository & Research Metrics Scoping Study Ìý |
$122, 452 |
Gabrielle Appleby (Project Leader) Simone Degeling, Philip Chung, Kathy Bowrey |
2014-17 |
Australian Research Council |
Law, Order and Federalism DP 140101218 |
$328,000 |
James Stellios (ANU) John Williams (UA) Gabrielle Appleby (UA) Ìý |
Ìý 2015-18 |
Australian Research Council and 15 partner universities |
The Australasian legal history libraries stage II LE150100051 Ìý |
$800,000 Ìý Ìý |
Lead Chief Investigator: Graham Greenleaf (ÁñÁ«¹ÙÍø) Personnel from 15 Universities, including: Gabrielle Appleby (UA) |
2018 |
Fellow |
Australian Academy of Law |
2017 |
Highly Commended, Academic of the Year |
NSW Women Lawyers Assn |
2017 |
Shortlisted, History Prize for The Tim Carmody Affair: Australia’s greatest judicial crisis Ìý |
Queensland Literary Awards |
2015 |
Shortlisted, Zines Prize for best law review article |
Federal Law Review |
2014 |
Dean’s Commendation for Excellence in Research |
University of Adelaide |
2012 |
University Medal (PhD) |
University of Adelaide |
2012 |
Dean’s Commendation for Doctoral Thesis Excellence Ìý |
University of Adelaide |
2012 |
Bonython Prize for best original thesis Ìý |
Law School University of Adelaide |
2010 |
Australian Postgraduate Award (PhD) |
Commonwealth Government University of Adelaide Ìý |
2010 |
Zelling-Gray Scholarship (PhD) |
Law School University of Adelaide Ìý |
2007 |
Betty Patterson Commemorative Award (to undertake LLM at the University of Melbourne) Ìý |
Australian Federation of University Women (Queensland Branch) Fellowship |
I am committed to engagement with the broader community, and regularly disseminate my research to the public through leading media forums, including opinion pieces in The New York Times, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Australian, the Australian Financial Review, and The Conversation. I have appeared as a commentator onÌýnational and international media (eg, BBC World Service, 7:30, The Project, Lateline, The Drum, Radio National Breakfast, Radio National’s Drive, and Sky News). I am the co-editor of Australia's leading public law blogging platform, AUSPUBLAW.org, and the www.Indigconlaw.org blog.ÌýÌý
I am the constitutional consultant to the Clerk of the Commonwealth House of Representatives and regularly undertake consultancy work on constitutional issues for governments, parliaments and NGOs.
My Research Supervision
Genna Churches, ÁñÁ«¹ÙÍø, ''Mass Surveillance and Data Retention in Australia' (with Paul Kildea)
Jemimah Roberts, ÁñÁ«¹ÙÍø, "Constitutional Interpretation in the High Court: Revisiting Genealogical, Genetic and Functional Comparison" (with Rosalind Dixon)
Joshua Gibson, ÁñÁ«¹ÙÍø, "Public law amicus and rights-based change: assessing the Australian experience' (with Sean Brennan)
Shakhawat Hossain, ÁñÁ«¹ÙÍø, "Judges social media use and its impact on the integrity of the judicial process in South Asia" (with Janina Boughey)
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