Douglas and Jones's Administrative Law

Fully revised and updated to include the latest administrative law decisions, Douglas and Jones is a leading text on administrative law. Already notable for its accessibility and background material, the authorship of the 9th edition has been extended to a new generation of administrative law educators, who have helped trim and modernise the material. Professor Michael Head and Associate Professor Yee-Fui Ng are joined by two younger accomplished educators, Dr Jason Donnelly and Michael Morgan.

Key Features of the new edition:

• Updated to include every major High Court administrative law case since the 8th edition.
• Full outline and discussion of the proposed Administrative Review Tribunal.
• Discussion and details of the new National Anti-Corruption Commission.
• Important extracts and analysis of the High Court’s most significant recent decisions, including on procedural fairness, unreasonableness, judicial review and jurisdictional error.

About the Authors

Dr. Jason Donnelly is a prominent Australian immigration and public law scholar and barrister. He earned a Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Laws with First Class Honours and a University Medal, a Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice, and a PhD. Dr. Donnelly has worked for Justice Michael Kirby AC CMG and Justice Peter McClellan AM KC of the High Court of Australia and NSW Supreme Court, respectively.

Michael Morgan is a barrister based at 13th Floor St James Hall in Sydney, NSW. Having been called to the Bar in May 2022, Michael’s practice includes administrative law where he has appeared in the Administrative Appeals Tribunal in migration matters seeking merits review of ministerial decisions.

Dr Michael Head is a Professor of Law at Western Sydney University, having previously taught law at La Trobe, Adelaide and the Australian National University. He holds a master’s degree in law from New York’s Columbia University, and became Western Sydney University’s first PhD graduate in law in 2004.

Dr Ng is an Associate Professor at Monash University. She researches in the areas of political integrity and the law, as well as the interaction between public law and politics.