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| University of New South Wales Law Journal | |
|---|---|
| Title | University of New South Wales Law Journal |
| Discipline | Law |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Faculty of Law, University of New South Wales |
| Country | Australia |
| Frequency | Quarterly |
| History | 1973–present |
University of New South Wales Law Journal is a peer-reviewed academic periodical published by the Faculty of Law at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. The Journal publishes scholarly articles, case notes, book reviews and symposia addressing Australian and international legal issues and jurisprudence. It engages with legal debates relating to constitutional interpretation, administrative adjudication, commercial regulation, human rights litigation and comparative private law.
Founded in the early 1970s, the Journal emerged from reforms in Australian legal education at the University of New South Wales, contemporaneous with curricular innovation at the Australian National University, Monash University, University of Melbourne and University of Sydney. Early editorial projects drew on scholarship from figures associated with the High Court of Australia, the New South Wales Bar Association, the Law Council of Australia, the Commonwealth Attorney-General's Department and visiting academics from the Harvard Law School, Yale Law School and University of Oxford. The Journal’s development paralleled institutional shifts marked by events such as the passage of the Racial Discrimination Act 1975 (Cth), the decisions in Australian Communist Party v Commonwealth, the reform debates following the Mabo v Queensland (No 2) judgement and comparative scholarship responding to the European Convention on Human Rights. Over subsequent decades the Journal hosted symposia linked to inquiries by the Australian Law Reform Commission, conferences involving the International Court of Justice, exchanges with the University of Cambridge and visiting fellows from the University of Toronto.
The Journal prioritizes contributions that engage doctrinal analysis, empirical research and theoretical critique of statutes and case law from jurisdictions such as the High Court of Australia, the House of Lords (now Supreme Court of the United Kingdom), the United States Supreme Court, the International Criminal Court and the European Court of Human Rights. Emphasis is placed on submissions that intersect with litigation before bodies like the Federal Court of Australia, the Family Court of Australia, the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea and appellate institutions including the Court of Appeal of England and Wales. Editorial policy requires original scholarship that cites decisions such as Coleman v Power, Dietrich v The Queen, Plaintiff S157/2002 v Commonwealth and comparative authorities including Brown v. Board of Education, Roe v. Wade and Marbury v. Madison. Peer review is conducted with reference to standards exemplified by journals at the UCLA School of Law, Columbia Law School, University of Chicago Law School and Stanford Law School.
Published quarterly, the Journal distributes print and electronic editions through the Faculty of Law at University of New South Wales and partners with libraries including the State Library of New South Wales, the National Library of Australia and university repositories at the University of Queensland, University of Western Australia and University of Adelaide. Subscriptions are held by institutions such as the High Court Library, the Australian Law Librarians' Association and law firms represented by the Law Society of New South Wales and the International Bar Association. Special issues have been produced in conjunction with conferences at venues like the Sydney Opera House, the Parliament House, Canberra, the Australian Parliament and international congresses organized by the International Association of Law Schools.
Governance is vested in an editorial board drawn from academics at the Faculty of Law, University of New South Wales, adjunct scholars from the King's College London Faculty of Law, and practitioners from chambers including Brick Court Chambers, Denton's and the Bar Council of England and Wales. The Editor-in-Chief role rotates among senior faculty and visiting professors affiliated with institutions such as the University of New South Wales, the London School of Economics, the University of Melbourne and the Australian National University. Advisory committee members have included judges from the High Court of Australia, academics from the University of Edinburgh, the University of Hong Kong and former officials of the Australian Human Rights Commission.
The Journal has published influential pieces by contributors associated with the High Court of Australia, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, the European Court of Human Rights and leading scholars from Harvard Law School, Yale Law School and the University of Oxford. Notable articles have engaged landmark rulings such as Mabo v Queensland (No 2), Dietrich v The Queen, Plaintiff M70/2011 v Minister for Immigration and Citizenship and comparative analyses referencing Dred Scott v. Sandford, R (Miller) v Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union and Korematsu v. United States. Contributors have included academics affiliated with the Australian National University, practitioners from the New South Wales Bar Association, visiting fellows from the University of Toronto and scholars who later served on commissions like the Australian Law Reform Commission.
The Journal and its contributors have received recognition through awards conferred by bodies such as the Australasian Law Teachers Association, the Australian Academy of Law, the Order of Australia honours for distinguished service, and prizes administered by the Law Council of Australia and the Sir Anthony Mason Prize. Individual articles have been cited in judgments of the High Court of Australia, referenced in reports by the Australian Law Reform Commission and showcased at symposia hosted by the International Bar Association and the Commonwealth Lawyers Association.
The Journal is abstracted and indexed in major services including Scopus, Web of Science, HeinOnline, LexisNexis, Westlaw and library catalogues of the National Library of Australia and the State Library of New South Wales. Metadata and article-level records appear in databases used by scholars at the University of Oxford, the University of Cambridge, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of California, Berkeley.
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