Brief Bio

Gabrielle Appleby is a professor in the Faculty of Law & Justice at UNSW Sydney, where she researches and teaches in public law, with particular expertise in constitutional law, executive power and accountability, parliamentary law and practice, and the judiciary. Her scholarship examines the institutions and practices that sustain constitutional government, including courts, parliaments, and the executive.

Gabrielle is Director of The Judiciary Project at the Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law, and a Series Editor of Hart Publishing’s Rule of Law in Context series. She is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law and the founding editor of the public law blog AUSPUBLAW. She regularly advises governments, parliaments and civil society organisations on constitutional issues and contributes to public debates on law and democracy.

Her recent books include The Failure of the Voice Referendum and the Future of Australian Democracy (with Megan Davis, Anthem Press, 2026) and The Judge, The Judiciary and the Court: Individual, Collegial and Institutional Judicial Dynamics in Australia (with Andrew Lynch, Cambridge University Press, 2021). She is the lead author of Australian Public Law (4th edition, Oxford University Press). She is currently editing a volume in the Edward Elgar Research Agenda series on Judges and the Judiciary (with David Kosař). Gabrielle’s work has been published widely in Australia and internationally, including in the Yale Law Journal, the International Journal of Constitutional Law (ICON), the International & Comparative Law Quarterly, Public Law, Federal Law Review, and Public Law Review.

Gabrielle holds a PhD from the University of Adelaide, where she was awarded the University Medal and the Bonython Prize. She has been a visiting scholar at the University of Edinburgh (as a MacCormick Fellow), the University of Cambridge, and the University of Colorado (as a Byron White Fellow).