Papers & Engagement
Dr Donnelly is an active writer and has published various papers on topics connected with the law.
Journal Articles
- Jason Donnelly, “The Impact of Ministerial Direction 110 on Australia’s International Law Obligations” (2025) 8(1) International Journal of Law and Society
- Jason Donnelly, “The Critical Role of Preparing Timely Written Reasons in Decision-Making: Enhancing Rationality, Objectivity, and Legal Accuracy” (2024) 30 James Cook University Law Review 127
- Jason Donnelly, “Reforming the Commonwealth’s Model Litigant Obligations: Addressing Challenges and Enhancing Ethical Litigation” (2024) 31 Australian Journal of Administrative Law 154
- Jason Donnelly, “The Administrative Continuum and Limits on Merits Review in Australia” (2024) 43(1) University of Tasmania Law Review 33
- Jason Donnelly, “Timely written reasons: Enhancing rationality, objectivity and legal accuracy in decision-making” (2024) Alternative Law Journal
- Jason Donnelly, “Immigration detention in Australia: the constitutional incompatibility of the Migration Act’s definition and its practical implications” (2024) Griffith Law Review 1
- Jason Donnelly, “How will the new Administrative Review Tribunal Work?” (2024) New South Wales Law Society Journal, July Edition
- Jason Donnelly, “Towards a Progressive Future: The Advent
of the Administrative Review Tribunal and Its Transformative Impact on Administrative Law” (2023) 30 Australian Journal of Administrative Law 234 - Jason Donnelly, “Shifting Legal Paradigms: The High Court’s Landmark Decision in NZYQ v Minister for Immigration” (2023) New South Wales Law Society Journal, December Edition
- Jason Donnelly, “Plaintiff M1-2021 – A Watershed Moment for Character Cases in Australian Migration Law’ (2023) 17 NSW Law Society Court of Conscience 47
- Jason Donnelly, “Reevaluating the “eye keenly attuned to error” principle in administrative law” (2023) 96 Immigration Review 1075
- Jason Donnelly, “Inconsistent statutory objectives and the Migration Act – Time for a Rethink” (2023) New South Wales Law Society Journal, September Edition
- Jason Donnelly, “Life after FYBR – The Expectations of the Australian Community in Migration Character Cases” (2023) 30 Australian Journal of Administrative Law 139
- Jason Donnelly, “Ministerial Intervention Applications and Limits on Executive Power” (2023) New South Wales Law Society Journal, June Edition
- Jason Donnelly, “Direction 99: A new era in fairness for non-citizens or much of the same?” (2023) New South Wales Law Society Journal, March Edition
- Jason Donnelly, “Double Counting Family Violence for the Same Purpose – Permissible Decision-making or Legal Unreasonableness?” (2023) 29 Australian Journal of Administrative Law 267
- Jason Donnelly and Amanda Do, “Character Applications before the Administrative Appeals Tribunal” (2022) 169 Precedent 27
- Jason Donnelly, “Abuse of Power and the Issue of Prerogative Commonwealth Model Litigant Policy” (2021) Canberra Law Review 18(2)
- Jason Donnelly, “Rethinking the character power as it relates to refugees and asylum seekers in Australia” (2019) 13 UNSW Law Society Court of Conscience 97
- Jason Donnelly and Kevin Tang, “Retirements – Sully” [2019] Autumn Bar News: Journal of the NSW Bar Association 106
- Jason Donnelly, “Tale of Two Characters – The Paradoxical Application of the Character Test between Visa Holders and Applicants for Australian Citizenship” (2018) 25 Australian Journal of Administrative Law 104
- Jason Donnelly, “Failure to Give Proper, Genuine and Realistic Consideration to the Merits of a Case: A Critique of Carrascalao” (2018) April UNSW Law Journal Forum 1 (cited in Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia, Report on the Statutory Review of the Tribunals Amalgamation Act 2015, The Hon. I.D.F. Callinan AC, 19 December 2018 (tabled before Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia on 23 July 2019)
- Jason Donnelly, “Utilisation of National Interest Criteria in the Migration Act 1958 (Cth) – A Threat to Rule of Law Values? (2017) 7(1) Victoria University Law and Justice Journal 94
- Jason Donnelly, “Challenging Huynh: Incorrect Importation of the National Interest Term via the Back Door” (2017) 24 Australian Journal of Administrative Law 99
- Jason Donnelly, “The convicted felon’s right to judicial review and the common law doctrine of attainder in Australia” (2013) 2 Journal of Civil Litigation and Practice 32
- Jason Donnelly, “Lessons of an Australian law graduate – Reflections on law school and the legal profession” (2013) Autumn Edition, Australian Law Students’ Association Reporter 4
- Jason Donnelly, “Judicial review for the convicted felon in Australia – a consideration of statutory context and the doctrine of attainder” (2012) 16 University of Western Sydney Law Review 137 (cited in Potier v Attorney General in and for the State of New South Wales [2015] NSWCA 129; Farrow v Nationwide News Pty Ltd [2017] NSWDC 28; Dickson v Commissioner, Australian Federal Police [2020] NSWCA 125 and Hamzy v Commissioner of Corrective Services NSW [2022] NSWCA 16)
- Jason Donnelly, “Five lessons of a reader at the NSW Bar” (2012) Winter Edition, The Journal of the New South Wales Bar Association 57
- Jason Donnelly, “The sex conundrum” (2011) 85(11) Law Institute Journal of Victoria 52
- Jason Donnelly, “A tippy path to the bar – an alternative approach” (2011) Autumn Edition, The Journal of the New South Wales Bar Association 54
- Jason Donnelly, “Reconciliation of jury secrecy in light of administrative law principles” (2011) 18(3) Australian Journal of Administrative Law 172
- Jason Donnelly, “Bad reputation after the event” (2010) 48(4) New South Wales Law Society Journal 67
Books
- Jason Donnelly et al, Douglas and Jones’s Administrative Law, The Federation Press, 9th Edition, 2024
- Jason Donnelly, Greg Weeks, Matthew Groves and Justice Flick, Federal Administrative Law, Thomson Reuters, 2022–
- Jason Donnelly, Decisions Without Reasons – Rethinking Jury Secrecy, BookPal, Coopers Plains, Qld, 2008, pp. 1-126
Reports & Conferences
- Jason Donnelly, “Interview with Dr Jason Donnelly”, Just Chat: Episode 42, The Law Society of New South Wales, 12 September 2024
- Future-Makers, Pushing for Fairness in Visa Decisions, Western Sydney University, 2024
- Jason Donnelly, Keynote Address, Immigration Law Conference, Sydney, 18 March 2024
- Jason Donnelly, Speaker, Government Law Symposium, Australian Capital Territory, 28 February 2024
- Jason Donnelly, Keynote Address – UNSW Issue 17 of the Court of Conscience Launch, 17 November 2023
- Jason Donnelly, ANU Public Law Conference 2023 (Integrity and Innovation – Public Law in the 2020s), 27 October 2023
- Jason Donnelly, The King’s School Lecture – A Perspective on Human Rights From a Practising Lawyer, King’s School, North Parramatta, 8 April 2015, pp. 1-10
- Jason Donnelly, Lessons of a UWS Law Graduate, University of Western Sydney School of Law Annual First Year Camp 2013, Collaroy Convention Centre, Sydney, 20 February 2013, 1-9
- Jason Donnelly, Consolidation of Commonwealth Anti-Discrimination Laws Discussion Paper, Initiative Under Australia’s Human Rights Framework, Donnelly Report, 29 January 2012, Sydney, pp. 1-40
