Rebecca Ananian-Welsh

Associate Professor Rebecca Ananian-Welsh is a constitutional law scholar, Executive Director of Public Law with the Centre for Public International and Comparative Law (CPICL), and Chief Editor of the University of Queensland Law Journal. Her research focuses on courts, national security and press freedom and she has published widely in these fields, including more than 25 journal articles and 4 books. Her research interests focus on the separation of judicial power, the constitutional role and nature of courts, national security law and policy, and press freedom in security contexts. Rebecca is an Honorary Senior Fellow at Melbourne Law School and has been a visiting scholar at the National University of Singapore (NUS). Prior to joining UQ, She held positions at UNSW Law with the Laureate Fellowship Project 'Anti-Terror Laws and the Democratic Challenge' and the Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law's Terrorism & Law Project, as a litigation solicitor with global law firm DLA Piper, and as a legal officer with the Federal Attorney-General's Department Canberra. National Security Law and Policy, Courts and judges, Press freedom, Constitutional law, Criminology, Domestic human rights law, Human Society, Law and Legal Studies, Legal institutions (incl. courts and justice systems), Legal systems, Public law, Terrorism

[2026] The Experience of Australian Judges on International Courts. Castan Centre for Human Rights Annual Conference, Docklands, VIC Australia, 23 July 2026. [2026] History and values on the High Court of Australia. ICON-S International Society of Public Law Annual Conference: Reimagining Public Law for a Fractured World - Technology, Identity and Truth, Dublin, Ireland, 29 June - 1 July 2016. [2026] Lim after NZYQ: Delimiting constitutional constraints on state power to punish non-citizens. University of Western Australia Law Review, 54 (1), 1-51. doi: 10.2139/ssrn.6835278 [2026] Can pluralist justice thrive under a strict separation of judicial power?. ICON-S International Society of Public Law Annual Conference: Reimagining Public Law for a Fractured World - Technology, Identity and Tru