Dr Gabrielle Appleby is an Associate Professor at the University of New South Wales. She is the Co-director of The Judiciary Project at the Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law. Gabrielle researches in public and constitutional law, and is particularly interested in the constitutional integrity of the exercise of public power and the regulation of the judicial branch. She has published widely in leading national and international journals. She has published a number of books, including The Tim Carmody Affair: Australia’s Greatest Judicial Crisis (NewSouth Publishing, 2016); The Role of the Solicitor-General: Negotiating Law, Politics and the Public Interest (Hart Publishing, 2016), Government Accountability (Cambridge University Press, 2015), Australian Public Law (2nd ed, Oxford University Press, 2014) and Public Sentinels: A Comparative Study of Australian Solicitors-General (Ashgate Publishing, 2014). She is the Chief Investigator on the Australian Research Council Discovery Project, Law, Order and Federalism. Gabrielle has previously worked in the Queensland Crown Law office and the Victorian Government Solicitor’s Office.
Rosalind Dixon is a Professor of Law at the University of New South Wales. She is Director of the Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law Comparative Constitutional Law Project, and Deputy Director of the Herbert Smith Freehills Initiative on Law and Economics. Her work focuses on comparative constitutional law and constitutional design, theories of constitutional dialogue and amendment, socio-economic rights and constitutional law and gender, and has been published in leading journals in the US, Canada, the UK and Australia, including the Cornell Law Review, University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law, International Journal of Constitutional Law, American Journal of Comparative Law, Osgoode Hall Law Journal, Oxford Journal of Legal Studies and Sydney Law Review. She is Co-editor, with Tom Ginsburg, of a leading handbook on comparative constitutional law, Comparative Constitutional Law (Edward Elgar, 2011), and a related volume, Comparative Constitutional Law in Asia (Edward Elgar, 2014), Co-editor (with Mark Tushnet and Susan Rose-Ackermann) of the Edward Elgar series on Constitutional and Administrative Law, on the editorial board of the Public Law Review, Journal of Institutional Studies, and Associate Editor of the Constitutions of the World series for Hart publishing. She previously served as an Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago Law School.