Dr Anne Carter

Senior Lecturer

School of Law

College of Business and Law

Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD - email supervisor to discuss availability.


Anne Carter joined Adelaide Law School in 2023 after spending several years at Deakin University. She completed her undergraduate studies in law and history at the University of Adelaide, the BCL and MPhil at the University of Oxford and a PhD at the University of Melbourne. Her PhD research investigated the role of facts in proportionality reasoning in constitutional adjudication. Her PhD was published as a monograph with Hart Publishing: Proportionality and Facts in Constitutional Adjudication. Anne has research interests in public law, evidence law and comparative law, and has published both in Australia and internationally.Prior to becoming an academic Anne worked as a practising lawyer, specialising in constitutional and administrative law. She previously worked as a Judge’s Associate in the Supreme Court of South Australia and the Federal Court, as Researcher to the Solicitor-General for Victoria, and as a solicitor at the Crown Solicitor’s Office of South Australia.

Date Institution name Country Title
University of Melbourne Australia PhD
University of Oxford United Kingdom Master of Philosphy
University of Oxford United Kingdom Bachelor of Civil Law
University of Adelaide Australia Bachelor of Laws (Hons)
University of Adelaide Australia Bachelor of Arts (Honours)
Deakin University Australia Graduate Certificate of Higher Education Teaching and Learning
Law Society of South Australia Australia Graduate Diploma of Legal Practice

Year Citation
2025 Grenfell, L., Carter, A., & Olijnyk, A. (2025). Scrutinising the Scrutiny Process in the Courts. Sydney Law Review, 46(3), 267-292.
DOI
2024 Carter, A., & Nadarajalingam, J. (2024). Setting the Playing Field: Vanderstock, Economic Tendencies and the Identification and Definition of Constitutional Facts. Public Law Review, 35(3), 223-237.
2022 Boughey, J., & Carter, A. (2022). CONSTITUTIONAL FREEDOMS AND STATUTORY EXECUTIVE POWERS. MELBOURNE UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW, 45(3), 1-46.
WoS5
2022 Boughey, J., & Carter, A. (2022). Constitutional Freedoms and Statutory Executive Power. Melbourne University Law Review, 45(3), 903-949.
DOI Scopus1
2021 Carter, A. (2021). Moving Beyond the Common Law Objection to Structured Proportionality. Federal Law Review, 49(1), 73-95.
DOI Scopus3
2021 Appleby, G., & Carter, A. (2021). Parliaments, Proportionality and Facts. Sydney Law Review, 43(3), 259-286.
DOI Scopus3 WoS6
2020 Carter, A. (2020). Bridging the Divide? Proportionality and Calibrated Scrutiny. Federal Law Review, 48(2), 282-285.
DOI Scopus1
2018 Carter, A. (2018). Brown v Tasmania: Proportionality and the Reformulation of the Lange Test. Public Law Review, 29(1), 11-12.
2016 Carter, A. (2016). Proportionality in Australian Constitutional Law: Towards Transnationalism. Heidelberg Journal of International Law, 76, 951.
2015 Carter, A. (2015). Political Donations, Political Communication and the Place of Proportionality Analysis: Case Note on McCloy v New South Wales. Public Law Review, 26(245).
2015 Carter, A. (2015). POLITICAL DONATIONS, POLITICAL COMMUNICATION AND THE PLACE OF PROPORTIONALITY ANALYSIS. PUBLIC LAW REVIEW, 26(4), 245-254.
WoS5
2008 Carter, A. (2008). The Definition and Discovery of Facts in Native Title: The Historian's Contribution. Federal Law Review, 36(3), 299-330.
DOI

Year Citation
2023 Tomlinson, J., & Carter, A. (Eds.) (2023). Facts in Public Law Adjudication. Bloomsbury Publishing.
DOI Scopus2
2023 Tomlinson, J., & Carter, A. (Eds.) (2023). Facts in Public Law Adjudication. Bloomsbury Publishing.
DOI Scopus2
2022 Carter, A. (2022). Proportionality and Facts in Constitutional Adjudication (Vol. 1). Great Britain: Bloomsbury Publishing.
DOI Scopus3

Year Citation
2023 Koch, C., Carter, A., Grenfell, L., Lindell, G., Olijnyk, A., Owens, R., . . . Williams, J. (2023). Submission to the Joint Select Committee on the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice Referendum.

Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name
2025 Co-Supervisor The Law of Coercive Power Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time James Edward Marcus
2025 Co-Supervisor Constitutional Control of Police Power: Developing a Comparative Framework from the South African Experience Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time Mr Marius Redelinghuys
2025 Co-Supervisor Constitutional Control of Police Power: Developing a Comparative Framework from the South African Experience Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time Mr Marius Redelinghuys
2025 Co-Supervisor The Law of Coercive Power Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time James Edward Marcus
2025 Co-Supervisor The executive power to forgive and deny: case studies on the prerogative powers Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time Ms Sue Jane Milne

Date Role Membership Country
2019 - ongoing Member International Association of Constitutional Law Australia
2012 - ongoing Member Australian Association of Constitutional Law Australia

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