Dr Amelia Simpson is one of Australia’s leading scholars of discrimination and equality principles in constitutional law. Her published research on interstate free trade doctrine has been cited and quoted with approval by pluralities in Australia’s High Court and Federal Court.
Amelia’s wider body of research has been cited extensively within the writings of other leading public law scholars and she was ranked in the top 20 most prolific publishers in Australia’s highest quality law journals over the period 2000-2010.
Amelia is an author of Hanks Australian Constitutional Law: Materials and Commentary (2016, LexisNexis), an invited contributor to the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of the Australian Constitution, edited by Cheryl Saunders and Adrienne Stone, and is also contributing to the forthcoming Australian Constitutional Values collection edited by Rosalind Dixon.
Significant research publications
- 'Parliaments' in Cheryl Saunders and Adrienne Stone (eds) Oxford Handbook of Australian Constitutional Law (OUP, 2018).
- 'Equal Treatment and Non-discrimination through the Functionalist Lens' in Rosalind Dixon (ed) Australian Constitutional Values (2018, Hart-Bloomsbury).
- 'Social Equality in Australia: the Constitution that Time Forgot', (2017) 4(1) Journal of Constitutional Justice 153-185.
- Dan Meagher, Amelia Simpson, James Stellios and Fiona Wheeler Hanks Australian Constitutional Law and Theory (2016, 10th ed, LexisNexis).
- 'Treachery of Heroism? The Judgment of Justices Deane and Toohey in Leeth v Commonwealth' in Andrew Lynch (ed) Great Australian Dissents (2016, CUP).
- ‘Fortescue Metals Group Ltd v Commonwealth: Discrimination and Fiscal Federalism’ (2014) 25(2) Public Law Review 93-98.
- ‘The (Limited) Significance of the Individual in Section 117 State Residence Discrimination’ (2008) 32(2) Melbourne University Law Review 639-71.
- ‘The High Court’s conception of discrimination: origins, applications and implications’, (2007) 29(2) Sydney Law Review 263-95.
- ‘Sweedman v Transport Accident Commission: State Residence Discrimination and the High Court’s Retreat into Characterisation’ (2006) 34(2) Federal Law Review 363-376
- ‘Grounding the High Court’s Modern Section 92 Jurisprudence: the Case for Improper Purpose as the Touchstone’ (2005) 33(3) Federal Law Review 445-84.
- ‘State Immunity from Commonwealth Laws: Austin v Commonwealth and Dilemmas of Doctrinal Design’ (2004) 32(1) UWA Law Review 44-62.
