Dr Gabrielle Appleby

Biography/ Background

I teach and research in Australian constitutional law. My main interests are in the role of the executive and the nature and restraint of executive power. I also research the judiciary and judicial power, and the role of government lawyers in the state.

I currently coordinate the Public Law Research Community at the Law School. News about the Community's research and activities can be accessed here: http://blogs.adelaide.edu.au/public-law-rc/ I am also currently the Book Review Editor for the Adelaide Law Review (http://www.law.adelaide.edu.au/review/)

I have taught previously in the public law field at the University of Melbourne and the University of Queensland. I recently successfully completed my PhD at the University of Adelaide researching the constitutional role of the Solicitor-General in Australia.

My work in practice includes time with the Victorian Government Solicitor's Office as a Senior Solicitor and as a solicitor with Minter Ellison (Brisbane) in the competition and intellectual property team.  I spent a year as an associate to his Honour Justice PD McMurdo of the Supreme Court of Queensland.  I was an articled clerk to Mr Conrad Lohe, Crown Solicitor of Queensland.

Qualifications

Legal Practitioner, High Court of Australia

Legal Practitioner, Supreme Court of Queensland

LLB (Hons, University of Queensland)

LLM (minor thesis, University of Melbourne)

PhD (University of Adelaide) (with Dean's Commendation for Doctoral Thesis Excellence)

Awards & Achievements

2011

Teaching Excellence Award, University of Queensland Law School (Constitutional Law)

2010

Teaching Excellence Award, University of Queensland Law School (Constitutional Law)

Australian Postgraduate Award (Scholarship, PhD, University of Adelaide Law School)

Zelling-Gray Scholarship in Law (University of Adelaide Law School)

2007

Betty Patterson Commemorative Award, Australian Federation of University Women (Queensland Branch) Fellowship

2005

3rd place, Australian Legal Philosophy Students Association National Essay Competition: A Postcard from Papua: A 30 Year Check up on PNG Democracy

2000-2004

Dean's Commendation for High Achievement (University of Queensland)

Research Interests

Government Lawyers

Constitutional Law

The Executive and Executive Power

The Judiciary and Judicial Power

Administrative Law

Comparative Public Law

Federalism

Publications

‘A new coat of paint: law and order and the refurbishment of Kable’ (with John M Williams) (2012) 40 Federal Law Review 1

'The Evolution of a Public Sentinel: Australia's Solicitor-General' (2012) 63(3) Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly 397 (Special Edition: Bench and Bar: The (Dis)Appearance of Britain)

‘The Ramifications of Pape v Federal Commissioner of Taxation for the Spending Power and Legislative Powers of the Commonwealth’ (with Stephen McDonald) (2012, forthcoming) Monash Law Review

‘Australian Federalism: Present, Past and Future Tense (with Nicholas Aroney and Thomas John), in The Future of Australian Federalism (with Nicholas Aroney and Thomas John, eds) (Cambridge University Press, 2012)

The Future of Australian Federalism (with Nicholas Aroney and Thomas John, eds) (Cambridge University Press, 2012)

Australian Public Law (with Alexander Reilly, Laura Grenfell and Wendy Lacey) (Oxford University Press, 2011)

‘Tissue Transplantation from Children: Difficulties in Navigating State and Federal Systems’ (with Shih-Ning Then) (2010) 33(2) University of New South Wales Law Journal 305

‘The Anti-Terror-Creep: Has South Australia adopted a Culture of Control?’ (with John M Williams) in Andrew Lynch, Nicola McGarrity and George Williams (eds), Counter-Terrorism and Beyond: The Culture of Control of Law and Justice after 9/11 (Routledge-Cavendish, 2010)

 ‘Proportionality and Federalism: Can Australian Learn from the European Community, the US and Canada?’ in Proportionality and Federalism: State Reflections (Amicus Books, 2010)

‘There Must be Limits: The Commonwealth Spending Power’ (2009) 37 Federal Law Review 93

"Proportionality and Federalism: Can Australian Learn from the European Community, the US and Canada?" University of Tasmania Law Review (forthcoming)

"DISCRIMINATION: Above the Law" Alternative Law Journal (December 2008), vol 33(4), 235

"Leave your bike in the Shed" (with Associate Professor Alexander Reilly) Alternative Law Journal (June 2008), vol 33(2), 119

De Smith, Woolf, & Jowell's Principles of Judicial Review (6th edition, 2008), Australian consultant (with Laureate Professor Cheryl Saunders)

Queensland Lawyer (Feb 2006), review of Intellectual Property Text and Essential Cases (Reynolds and Stoianoff, 2005)

 

Professional Associations

2008 - ongoing

Committee Member, Australian Association of Constitutional Law, SA Branch

2009

Committee Member, Law Society of South Australia, Public Sector Lawyers Committee

2007 - ongoing

Member, Australian Association of Constitutional Law

2006

Committee member, Intellectual Property Society of Australia and New Zealand

Expertise for Media Contact

Categories	Law, crime and justice
Expertise	constitutional law, federalism, executive and executive power, judiciary and judicial power, government lawyers
Notes	Committee Member, Australian Association of Constitutional Law, SA Branch
Mobile	0401 325 505

Entry last updated: Friday, 4 Jan 2013