Researcher

Keywords

Fields of Research (FoR)

Administrative law, Comparative law, Constitutional law, Domestic human rights law, Legal institutions (incl. courts and justice systems)

Biography

Janina is an Associate Professor in the UNSW Faculty of Law, an ARC DECRA fellow, and the Director of the Administrative Law and Justice Project and the Public Law and Technology Project in the Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law. Janina teaches and researches in Australian, Canadian and UK public law. Her work focusses on whether administrative law principles and institutions are fit for purpose in light of the way modern governments...view more

Janina is an Associate Professor in the UNSW Faculty of Law, an ARC DECRA fellow, and the Director of the Administrative Law and Justice Project and the Public Law and Technology Project in the Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law. Janina teaches and researches in Australian, Canadian and UK public law. Her work focusses on whether administrative law principles and institutions are fit for purpose in light of the way modern governments function. Janina is the author, co-author and editor of several books, the most recent of which include: The Automated State: Implications, Challenges and Opportunities for Public Law (Federation Press, 2021) (edited with Katie Miller); Government Liability: Principles and Remedies (LexisNexis, 2019) (with Ellen Rock and Greg Weeks); and Interpreting Executive Power (Federation Press, 2020) (edited with Lisa Burton Crawford).

Janina holds a PhD from Monash University (for which she received the university medal), undergraduate degrees in Law and Economics (social science) from Sydney University (both with first class honours), and an LLM in government law from the Australian National University. She has previously worked in a number legal, policy and research positions including in the Administrative Law section of the Commonwealth Attorney-General's Department, as a researcher in the Department of the Senate, and as Chair of Social Security Rights Victoria.

 


My Grants

DECRA, 2021-2025


My Qualifications

B Ec (soc sci) (Hons I)/LLB (Hons I) (USYD)

LLM (government and commercial law) (ANU)

PhD (Monash)


My Research Supervision


Supervision keywords


Areas of supervision

Administrative law, comparative public law, human rights law, parliamentary procedure, access to information, statutory interpretation

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