Gabrielle Appleby is a Professor at University of New South Wales Law in Sydney, Australia. She is the Director of The Judiciary Project at the Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law and her books include Judicial Federalism in Australia (2021), Australian Public Law (3rd ed, 2018), The Role of the Solicitor-General: Negotiating Law, Politics and the Public Interest (2016); and The Tim Carmody Affair (2016). Andrew Lynch is Acting Dean of University of New South Wales Law in Sydney, Australia. He researches constitutional law, judicial dissent and judicial appointments. A Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law, his books include Blackshield & Williams' Australian Constitutional Law and Theory (2014, 2018), Australia's Greatest Judicial Crisis: The Tim Carmody Affair (2016) and Great Australian Dissents (2016).
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