Dr Gabrielle Appleby is a Professor at the Law Faculty of University of New South Wales (Sydney) and the Research Director at the Centre for Public Integrity. Gabrielle’s areas of expertise include 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). Her books include The Failure of the Voice Referendum and the Future of Australian Democracy (Anthem Press, 2026), Australian Public Law (4th ed, Oxford University Press, 2023), The Judge, The Judiciary and the Court: Individual, Collegial and Institutional Judicial Dynamics in Australia (Cambridge University Press, 2021), Judicial Federalism in Australia (Federation Press, 2021), The Role of the Solicitor-General: Negotiating Law, Politics and the Public Interest (Hart Publishing, 2016); The Critical Judgments Project: Re-reading Monis v The Queen (Federation Press, 2016) and The Tim Carmody Affair (NewSouth Publishing, 2016).
Posts by Gabrielle:
Criminal Law as Public Law – Public Law and Criminal Law in Australia book forum
Nothing to fear and much to be gained from a federal judicial commission
Workplace Reforms in Courts and Parliaments: Some Guiding Principles
A principled approach to key reforms of Australia’s administrative review system
Judicial Federalism in Australia book forum: Authors’ Response
Launch of the Feminist Judgments and Critical Judgments Projects website!
Constitutional conversation, institutional listening and the First Nations Voice
Another Stop on the Road to Meaningful Constitutional Recognition
The Parliament, the Court of Disputed Returns, and the Solicitor-General