Ms Gabrielle Appleby
Biography/ Background
I have taught previously in the public law field at the University of Melbourne and the University of Queensland. I am currently a PhD candidate 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.
I have been involved in a number of important pieces of High Court constitutional litigation representing the State of Queensland, including Fardon v AG (Qld), APLA v Legal Services Commissioner (NSW) and Coleman v Power.
Qualifications
Legal Practitioner, High Court of Australia
Legal Practitioner, Supreme Court of Queensland
LLB (Hons, University of Queensland)
LLM (minor thesis, University of Melbourne)
Awards & Achievements
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
Constitutional Law
Administrative Law
Comparative Public Law
Federalism
Publications
'The Evolution of a Public Sentinel: Australia's Solicitor-General' Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly (Special Edition: Bench and Bar: The (Dis)Appearance of Britain) (2012, forthcoming)
‘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, forthcoming)
The Future of Australian
Federalism (with Nicholas Aroney and Thomas John, eds) (Cambridge University Press,
2012, forthcoming)
Australian Public Law (with Alexander Reilly, Laura
Grenfell and Wendy Lacey) (Oxford University Press, 2011, forthcoming)
‘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
2009
Committee Member, Law Society of South Australia, Public Sector Lawyers
Committee
2008
Committee Member, Australian Association of Constitutional Law, SA Branch
2007
Member, Australian Association of Constitutional Law
2006
Committee member, Intellectual Property Society of Australia and New Zealand
Entry last updated: Thursday, 2 Feb 2012
