Adam Webster
Departmental Lecturer in Law and Public Policy, Blavatnik School of Government
Biography
Dr Adam Webster is a Departmental Lecturer in Law and Public Policy and Co-Director of the Master of Public Policy at the Blavatnik School of Government. Adam has a particular interest in how public law affects and shapes contemporary legal problems.
Prior to joining the Blavatnik School, Adam was a lecturer at the Law School at the University of Adelaide, Australia. He holds a Bachelor of Engineering, Bachelor of Laws and PhD in Law from the same institution. As part of his PhD, Adam was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship and completed a component of his doctoral research at the University of Colorado and the University of Arizona.
Publications
WEBSTER A, ‘REFERENDUMS IN THE UK AND PLEBISCITES IN AUSTRALIA: WHEN TO SEEK THE VIEWS OF THE PEOPLE?’ [2019] Public Law
WEBSTER A, ‘REFLECTING ON THE WATERS: PAST AND FUTURE CHALLENGES FOR THE REGULATION OF THE MURRAY-DARLING BASIN’ [2019] Adelaide Law Review
STUBBS M and WEBSTER A, ‘DISCLOSURE, NOT DISQUALIFICATION: A DEMOCRATIC PROPOSAL TO PROMOTE THE FIDELITY OF ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES TO THE PEOPLE’ [2019] Public Law Review
WEBSTER A, ‘History Repeating: The South Australian Royal Commission into the Murray-Darling Basin’ (2018) 33(7 & 8) Australian Environment Review 141
Webster A and others, ‘ENHANCING THE FIRST YEAR CURRICULUM AND EXPERIENCE: LAW SCHOOL ‘BOOT CAMP’’ (2018) 28 Legal Education Review
WEBSTER and Stubbs M, ‘Eligibility of Dual Citizens: The Coming-of-Age of Section 44’ (2018) 40(1) Bulletin (Law Society of South Australia) 6
WEBSTER, ‘A Colonial History of the River Murray Dispute’ (2017) 38(1) Adelaide Law Review
Webster A, ‘Sharing Water from Transboundary Rivers: Limits on State Power’ (2016) 44(1) Federal Law Review 25
Appleby G and Webster A, ‘Executive Power under the Constitution: A Presidential and Parliamentary System Compared’ (2016) 87(4) University of Colorado Law Review
WEBSTER A and Appleby G, ‘Cycling and the Law’ (2016) 39 University of New South Wales Law Journal 129
Burdon P and others, ‘Decolonising Indigenous water ‘rights’ in Australia: flow, difference, and the limits of law’ (2015) 5(4) Settler Colonial Studies 334
Webster A, ‘BLACKSTONE AND HIS COMMENTARIES - BIOGRAPHY, LAW, HISTORY’ (2015) 40(1) ALTERNATIVE LAW JOURNAL 69
Webster A, ‘SHARING WATER FROM TRANSBOUNDARY RIVERS IN AUSTRALIA - AN INTERSTATE COMMON LAW?’ (2015) 39(1) MELBOURNE UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW 263
Appleby G and Webster A, ‘PARLIAMENT’S ROLE IN CONSTITUTIONAL INTERPRETATION’ (2013) 37(2) MELBOURNE UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW 255
Webster A and Williams J, ‘Can the High Court save the Murray River?’ (2012) 29(4) Environmental and Planning Law Journal 281
Webster A, ‘Expanding the Role of Victims and the Community in Sentencing’ (2011) 35 Criminal Law Journal 21
Williams J and Webster A, ‘Section 100 and State Water Rights’ (2010) 21 Public Law Review 267
Webster A, ‘Horncastle v R: Statements from Witnesses Absent at Trial’ (2009) 13(4) The International Journal of Evidence & Proof 324
Webster A, ‘Recklessness: Awareness, Indifference or Belief’ (2007) 31 Criminal Law Journal 272
‘Executive Power under the Constitution: A Presidential and Parliamentary System Compared’ (2016) 87(4) University of Colorado Law Review
‘Eligibility of dual citizens: the coming-of-age of Section 44’ (2018) 40(1) Bulletin 6
Appleby G and WEBSTER A, ‘Federalism, public interest advocacy and marriage equality in Australia’ in M Groves, J Boughey and D Meagher (eds.), The Legal Protection of Rights in Australia (Hart Publishing 2019)