James Popple (born 1964)[1] is CEO of the Law Council of Australia.

[2] He is also an Honorary Professor in the College of Law[3] and the College of Engineering and Computer Science[4] at the Australian National University,[5] and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law.

[6] He was President of the ANU's Postgraduate and Research Students' Association (1990–91);[1] associate to High Court Justice Mary Gaudron (1995);[7] Deputy Registrar of the High Court of Australia (1996–98);[1] a senior executive in the Australian Attorney-General's Department (1998–2010);[8] the first Australian Freedom of Information Commissioner (2010–14);[8] a Senior Member of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal (2015–17);[9] a Principal Reviewer at CPM Reviews Pty Ltd (2018);[10] a member of the Australian Anti-Dumping Review Panel (2018–21);[11] a member of the ACT Remuneration Tribunal (2018–22);[12] Official Secretary to the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety (2018–21);[13] and Official Secretary to the Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicide (2021–22).

[14] He has been a member of the Council of Burgmann College, ANU since 1985.

[1][15] As part of his PhD research at the ANU (1993),[16] he developed a legal expert system called SHYSTER.