By Associate Professor Ellen Maree Rock

Books

Rock E, 2020, Measuring accountability in public governance regimes, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781108886154

Boughey J; Rock E; Weeks G, 2019, Government Liability: Principles and Remedies, LexisNexis, https://store.lexisnexis.com.au/product?product=government-liability-principles-and-remedies&meta_F_and=9780409348651

Book Chapters

Rock E, 2025, 'Brokering Public Trust and Confidence in Government Integrity', in Aronson M; Weeks G (ed.), Controlling the Administrative State Essays in Honour of Matthew Groves, Hart Publishing

Rock E, 2024, 'Government Liability and the Will of Parliament', in Rolph D; Eldridge J; Pilkington T (ed.), Australian Tort Law in the 21st Century, Federation Press, https://federationpress.com.au/product/australian-tort-law-in-the-21st-century/

Rock E, 2023, 'Questions of Measurement: Striking an Accountability Balance', in Questions of Accountability Prerogatives Power and Politics, pp. 39 - 60, http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781509964253.ch-003

Rock E, 2018, 'Fault and Accountability in Public Law', in The Unity of Public Law?: Doctrinal, Theoretical and Comparative Perspectives, Hart Publishing, Oxford, pp. 171 - 192, http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781509915217.ch-008

Journal articles

Rock E, 2026, 'Public Law Breaches and Private Law Wrongs: Government Liability in Tort for Acts Beyond Power', MELBOURNE UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW, 49, pp. (forthcoming) - (forthcoming)

Rock E; Weeks G, 2023, 'Getting What You Want From Administrative Law', AIAL Forum, 108, pp. 88 - 109, https://aial.org.au/aial-forum-articles/table-of-contents-volume-108-september-2023/

Rock E, 2023, 'Causation in Public Law', Australian Journal of Administrative Law, 30, pp. 56 - 80, https://anzlaw.thomsonreuters.com/Document/Ieae0c9ba0dc611ee8f18d224a4254e08/View/FullText.html

Rock E, 2022, 'Government liability for false imprisonment: Thoms v Commonwealth [2022] HCA 20', Australian Journal of Administrative Law, 29, pp. 157 - 161, https://anzlaw.thomsonreuters.com/Document/I8f6f33bb5c1d11ed806e89148bcf640e/View/FullText.html

Rock E, 2020, 'Resolving Conflicts at the Interface of Public and Private Law', Australian Law Journal, 94, pp. 381 - 394, https://anzlaw.thomsonreuters.com/Document/Ib2b4b137b77e11ea8e22a7bfe2accfd3/View/FullText.html

Rock E, 2020, 'Brett Cattle: a New Lease on Life for Misfeasance?', Public Law Review, 31, pp. 365 - 369, https://anzlaw.thomsonreuters.com/Document/I81716f7a599b11eb8fe286537aeec1b6/View/FullText.html

Rock E, 2019, 'Misfeasance in Public Office: A Tort in Tension', MELBOURNE UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW, 43, pp. 337 - 368, https://heinonline.org/HOL/P?h=hein.journals/mulr43&i=343

Boughey J; Rock E; Weeks G, 2019, 'Remedies for Government Liability: Beyond Administrative Law', AIAL Forum, 97, pp. 57 - 74, https://classic.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/AIAdminLawF/2019/23.pdf

Rock E; Weeks G, 2018, 'Monetary awards for public law wrongs: Australia’s resistant legal landscape', The University of New South Wales Law Journal, 41, pp. 1159 - 1186, http://dx.doi.org/10.53637/QAOJ4542

Rock E, 2018, 'Book Review: Australian Constitutional Values', Australian Journal of Administrative Law, 25, pp. 253 - 254, https://anzlaw.thomsonreuters.com/Document/I90533b999aa011ea89ea91c88091df40/View/FullText.html

Rock E, 2017, 'Accountability: A Core Public Law Value?', AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF ADMINISTRATIVE LAW, 24, pp. 189 - 203

Conference Papers

Rock E; Rock E, 2018, 'Mapping the Relationship Between Excess of Power and Government Liability in Tort', Banff, Alberta, presented at Obligations X, Banff, Alberta, 11 July 2018 - 14 July 2018

Rock E, 2018, 'Locating the Courts within the Australian Accountability System', Melbourne Law School, presented at Public Law Conference 2018: The Frontiers of Public Law, Melbourne Law School, 11 July 2018 - 13 July 2018

Rock E, 2016, 'What were they thinking? The role of fault in public law and accountability as a unifying theme', University of Cambridge, presented at Public Law Conference 2016: The Unity of Public Law?, University of Cambridge, 12 September 2016 - 14 September 2016

Rock E, 2016, 'Accountability in Australian Public Law', Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law, UNSW Sydney, presented at 2016 Postgraduate Workshop in Public Law, Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law, UNSW Sydney, 14 July 2016 - 15 July 2016

Reports

Rock E, 2024, Stakeholder submission to the NSW Legislative Council Regulation Committee, 'Evaluation of the Regulation Committee's Technical Scrutiny Function' (10 December 2024), NSW Parliament, Australia, Submission 1, https://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/lcdocs/inquiries/3086/Report%20-%20Evaluation%20of%20the%20Regulation%20Committee's%20technical%20scrutiny%20function.pdf

Rock E; Boughey J, 2024, Submission to House of Representatives Standing Committee on Social Policy and Legal Affairs ‘Inquiry into the Administrative Review Tribunal Bill 2023 and the Administrative Review Tribunal (Consequential and Transitional Provisions No.1) Bill 2023’, Commonwealth Government, Australia, Submission 13, http://hdl.handle.net/10453/176344

Rock E; Boughey J, 2023, Submission to the Administrative Review Taskforce ‘Administrative Review Reform: Issues Paper’, Commonwealth Government, Australia

Rock E, 2021, Submission to the Commonwealth Attorney-General's Department on the Commonwealth Integrity Commission consultation draft, Australian Government: Attorney-General's Department, Submission 100, https://www.ag.gov.au/sites/default/files/2021-04/dr-ellen-rock.PDF

Lee K; Rock E, 2019, The Impact of Information Technologies on the Teaching of Administrative Law, Centre for Professional Legal Education Bond University, Robina Queensland, http://hdl.handle.net/10453/138735

Media

Rock E, 2021, Superimposing private duties on the exercise of public powers: Sharma v Minister for the Environment, https://www.auspublaw.org/blog/2021/08/superimposing-private-duties-on-the-exercise-of-public-powers-sharma-v-minister-for-the-environment

Preprints

Rock E; Weeks G, 2023, Getting What You Want From Administrative Law, https://ssrn.com/abstract=4604317

Rock E, Accountability: A Core Public Law Value?, http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3195567

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