Dr James Popple
BA LLB PhD
Honorary Professor
ANU College of Law, ANU College of Engineering, Computing and Cybernetics, and ANU College of Engineering, Computing and Cybernetics
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02 6243 4611
Areas of expertise
- Expert Systems 080105
- Artificial Intelligence And Image Processing 0801
- Administrative Law 180103
- Civil Law And Procedure 180104
- Legal Institutions (Incl. Courts And Justice Systems) 180120
Research interests
- artificial intelligence and law
- legal expert systems
- IT law
- court technology
- freedom of information
Biography
Dr James Popple is the CEO of the Law Council of Australia.
James was previously Official Secretary to the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety and the Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicide. He was also the inaugural Freedom of Information Commissioner, a Senior Member of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal, and a member of the ACT Remuneration Tribunal. Before that, James worked for 12 years in the Australian Attorney-General's Department. Before joining AGD, he was a judge's associate, then Deputy Registrar of the High Court of Australia.
James has degrees in law and arts, and is admitted as a barrister and a solicitor. He is also a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law, a Director of the AustLII Foundation Ltd, and an Honorary Professor of the Australian National University (in the College of Law and the College of Engineering, Computing and Cybernetics) where he conducted his doctoral research in artificial intelligence and the law.
Publications
- Popple, J 2014, 'The OAIC FOI Experiment', Australian Institute of Administrative Law Forum, vol. 78, no. Nov 2014, pp. 31-43.
- Popple, J 2012, "A Commonwealth pro-disclosure culture - implications and opportunities", Keeping Good Companies: Journal of Chartered Secretaries Australia Ltd, vol. 64, no. 7, August, pp. 401-4, ISSN 1444-7614.
- Popple, J 2011, "Freedom of information: A government perspective", Australian Law Librarian, vol. 19, no. 4, 2011, pp. 256-64, ISSN 1039-6616.
- Popple, J 2008, "Personal property securities reform and security interests in ships", Australian and New Zealand Maritime Law Journal, vol. 22, no. 1, April, pp. 16-21, ISSN 1834-0881.
- Popple, J 2007, "Personal property securities reform and security interests in ships", Maritime Law Association of Australia and New Zealand 34th Annual Conference, Canberra, 26-28 September, 8 pp.
- Popple, J 2007, "Personal property securities reform", LexisNexis 17th Annual Credit Law Conference, Gold Coast, 19-21 September, 7 pp.
- O'Callaghan, T, Popple, J and McCreath, E 2003, "SHYSTER-MYCIN: A hybrid legal expert system", in Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law (ICAIL-03), Edinburgh, Scotland, 24-28 June, ACM, pp. 103-4, ISBN 1 58113 747 8.
- O'Callaghan, T, Popple, J and McCreath, E 2003, Building and Testing the SHYSTER-MYCIN Hybrid Legal Expert System, Technical Report TR-CS-03-01, Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, Australian National University, Canberra, May, 16 pp.
- Jones, F and Popple, J 2001, "Information technology", in Blackshield, T, Coper, M and Williams, G (eds), The Oxford Companion to the High Court of Australia, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, pp. 698-9, ISBN 0 19 554022 0.
- Popple, J 2001, "Number of Justices", in Blackshield, T, Coper, M and Williams, G (eds), The Oxford Companion to the High Court of Australia, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, pp. 698-9, ISBN 0 19 554022 0.
- Popple, J 2001, "Seniority", in Blackshield, T, Coper, M and Williams, G (eds), The Oxford Companion to the High Court of Australia, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, pp. 698-9, ISBN 0 19 554022 0.
- Jones, F and Popple, J 2001, "Vexatious litigants", in Blackshield, T, Coper, M and Williams, G (eds), The Oxford Companion to the High Court of Australia, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, pp. 698-9, ISBN 0 19 554022 0.
- Popple, J 1999, "Case management in the High Court of Australia: The first year of a new system", National Center for State Courts Sixth National Court Technology Conference (CTC6), Los Angeles, 14-16 September.
- Popple, J and de la Fosse, T 1998, "Escaping the relational database paradigm: Case management in the High Court of Australia", Australian Institute of Judicial Administration Technology for Justice Conference, Melbourne, 23-25 March, 19 pp.
- Popple, J 1996, A Pragmatic Legal Expert System, Applied Legal Philosophy Series, Dartmouth (Ashgate), Aldershot, May, xviii + 384 pp., ISBN 1 85521 739 2.
- Popple, J 1993, SHYSTER: A Pragmatic Legal Expert System, PhD thesis, Australian National University, Canberra, April, xxii + 432 pp., ISBN 0 7315 1827 6.
- Popple, J 1993, SHYSTER: The Program, Technical Report TR-CS-93-13, Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, Australian National University, Canberra, December, iv + 237 pp.
- Popple, J 1992, SHYSTER and the Calculation of Distance between Cases, Technical Report TR-CS-92-05, Department of Computer Science, Australian National University, Canberra, April, 10 pp.
- Popple, J 1992, SHYSTER and the Authorization of Copyright Infringement, Technical Report TR-CS-92-08, Department of Computer Science, Australian National University, Canberra, May, 25 pp.
- Popple, J 1991, "Legal expert systems: The inadequacy of a rule-based approach", The Australian Computer Journal, vol. 23, no. 1, February, pp. 11-16, ISSN 0004-8917.
- Wilkins, M and Popple, J 1991 (eds), The Orientation Handbook for Postgraduate Students, Australian National University Postgraduate and Research Students' Association, Canberra, 74 pp.
- Popple, J 1991, Detecting Attribute Dependence in the SHYSTER Legal Expert System, Technical Report TR-CS-91-04, Department of Computer Science, Australian National University, Canberra, 8 pp.
- Popple, J 1990, "Legal expert systems: The inadequacy of a rule-based approach", in Akl, S, Fiala, F and Koczkodaj, W (eds), Advances in Computing and Information: Proceedings of the International Conference on Computing and Information (ICCI-90), Niagara Falls, Canada, 23-26 May, Canadian Scholars' Press, Toronto, pp. 348-51, ISBN 0 921627 70 X.
- Popple, J 1990, "Legal expert systems: The inadequacy of a rule-based approach", in Proceedings of the Thirteenth Australian Computer Science Conference (ACSC-13), Monash University, Melbourne, 7-9 February, Australian Computer Science Communications, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 303-13, ISSN 0157-3055.
- Popple, J 1989, "The right to protection from retroactive criminal law", Criminal Law Journal, vol. 13, no. 4, August, pp. 251-62, ISSN 0314-1160.
- Popple, J 1989, "The right to protection from retroactive criminal law", Australasian Law Students' Association Journal, vol. 2, pp. 5-18, ISSN 1030-8237.
- Popple, J 1987, Incremental Compilation and its Implementation in the PECAN Programming Environment Generator, Honours thesis, Department of Computer Science, Australian National University, Canberra, November, viii + 145 pp.
