Areas of expertise

• Constitutional Law 180108
• Legal Theory, Jurisprudence And Legal Interpretation 180122
• Administrative Law 180103
• Law 1801

Publications

• McDonald, L 2021, 'Thinking About Doctrine in Administrative Law', in James Goudkamp, Mark Lunney, Leighton McDonald (ed.), Taking Law Seriously: Essays in Honour of Peter Cane, Hart Publishing, UK, pp. 235-258.
• McDonald, L 2019, 'The Purpose of Administrative Law and the Legitimacy of Administrative Government', Public Law Review, vol. 30, no. 4, pp. 330-336.
• McDonald, L 2019, 'Jurisdictional Error as Conceptual Totem', University of New South Wales Law Journal, vol. 42, no. 3, pp. 1019-1038.
• McDonald, L 2018, 'Graham and the Constitutionalisation of Australian Administrative Law', Australian Institute of Administrative Law Forum, vol. 91, pp. 47-54.
• Bateman, W & McDonald, L 2017, 'The Normative Structure of Australian Administrative Law', Federal Law Review, vol. 54, no. 2, pp. 153-178.
• McDonald, L 2015, 'Reasons, reasonableness and intelligible justification in judicial review', Sydney Law Review, vol. 37, no. 4, pp. 467-488.
• McDonald, L 2014, 'Rethinking Unreasonableness Review', Public Law Review, vol. 25, no. 2, pp. 117-133.
• McDonald, L 2013, 'Comment on the Vantage of Law', Australian Journal of Legal Philosophy, vol. 38, pp. 166-170.
• Cane, P & McDonald, L 2013, Cases and Materials for Principles of Administrative Law, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, Victoria.
• Cane, P & McDonald, L 2012, Principles of Administrative Law: Legal Regulation of Governance (2nd ed), Oxford University Press, Melbourne, Victoria.
• McDonald, L 2010, 'The entrenched minimal provision of judicial review and the rule of law', Public Law Review, vol. 21, pp. 14-34.
• McDonald, L, ed., 2010, Federal Law Review.
• Cane, P & McDonald, L 2009, Case and Materials for Principles of Administrative Law: Legal Regulation of Governance, Oxford University Press, Melbourne Australia.
• Cane, P & McDonald, L 2008, Principles of Administrative Law: Legal Regulation of Governance, Oxford University Press, Australia & New Zealand.
• McDonald, L, Simpson, A, Stellios, J et al, eds, 2008, Federal Law Review.
• McDonald, L, Simpson, A, Stellios, J et al, eds, 2007, Federal Law Review.
• Mantziaris, C & McDonald, L 2006, 'Federal judicial review jurisdiction after Griffith University v Tang', Public Law Review, vol. 17, no. 22, pp. 22-48.
• McDonald, L 2004, 'The Rule of Law in the 'New Regulatory State'', Common Law World Review, vol. 33, no. 3, pp. 197-221.
• McDonald, L 2004, 'Rights, Dialogue and Democratic Objections to Judicial Review', Federal Law Review, vol. 32, no. 1, pp. 1-28.
• McDonald, L 2004, 'New Directions in the Australian Bill of Rights Debate', Public Law, vol. Spring, pp. 22-32.
• McDonald, L 2001, 'Positivism and the Formal Rule of Law: Questioning the Connection', Australian Journal of Legal Philosophy, vol. 26, pp. 93-128.
• McDonald, L 2001, 'Rule of law', in Blackshield (ed.), Oxford Companion to the High Court of Australia, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, Australia, pp. 610-612.

Projects and Grants

Grants information is drawn from ARIES. To add or update Projects or Grants information please contact your College Research Office.

• The Australasian Legal Scholarship Library: New content and sophistication for a world-leading legal scholarship repository and citator (externally led by UNSW) (Secondary Investigator)