Australian Law Journal
DisciplineLaw
LanguageEnglish
Edited byJustice François Kunc (2016– )
Publication details
History1927–present
Publisher
FrequencyMonthly
Standard abbreviations
ISO 4Aust. Law J.
Indexing
ISSN0004-9611
LCCN33024673
OCLC no.01518834
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The Australian Law Journal is an Australian peer-reviewed law journal which has been publishing since 1927. Studies have found that it is one of the most cited Australian law journals.[citation needed]

A 2002 study found that while on the Federal Court of Australia and the High Court of Australia judges published academic articles most often in the Australian Law Journal in both decades studied, the 1980s and 1990s.[1]

The first editor "set out to create in the ALJ, a Journal somewhere between the learned reviews and the practical magazines of the English legal profession."[2]

Past editors have included Bernard Sugerman (1927–1946), Rae Else-Mitchell (1946–1958), Russell Walter Fox (1958–1967), Nigel Bowen (1958–1961), Philip Jeffrey (1968–1973),[a] Professor J. G. Starke QC (1974–1992),[b] and Peter Young AO (1992–2016).[4] The Assistant Editor and Revenue Editor (1977–87) was the later Chief Justice of Tuvalu, The Hon Charles Sweeney QC.

Journal rankings

The Australian Business Deans Council has given this journal a quality rating of "A".[5] The Australian Research Council has ranked this journal in the "B" tier, although the methodology and utility of such rankings has been challenged by Australian legal scholars[6][7] and the responsible minister has indicated that this ranking system will be discontinued.[8]

Notes

  1. ^ Philip Jeffrey QC was a Sydney-educated barrister, Teaching Fellow in Law, University of Sydney, and a Judge of the Supreme Court of New South Wales. He died sometime before 1988, but further information is elusive.
  2. ^ Joseph Gabriel "Joe" Starke QC (1911–2006) of Griffith, ACT, was in 1980 consultant to the Australian Law Reform Commission on human rights in international law. He was author of An Introduction to International Law (Butterworth, London).[3]

References

  1. ^ Smyth, Russell "Judges and Academic Scholarship: An Empirical Study of the Academic Publication Patterns of Federal Court and High Court Judges" [2002] QUTLawJJl 12; (2002) 2(2) Queensland University of Technology Law and Justice Journal 198
  2. ^ "Presentation of a Portrait of Sir Bernard Sugarman to the Supreme Court of NSW" Law and Justice Foundation, 24 July 1995 accessed 28 August 2011.
  3. ^ "The Week". The Canberra Times. Vol. 54, no. 16, 354. Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 5 July 1980. p. 2. Retrieved 12 November 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
  4. ^ Kevin Edmund Lindgren, "Is the Australian Law Journal an Australian law journal?" (speech) The Judges' Review Conference 2007, 16 March 2007, Sydney.
  5. ^ Australian Business Deans Council ABDC Journal Ratings List accessed 22 August 2011
  6. ^ David Hamer, "ARC rankings poor on law", The Australian 25 June 2008 accessed 22 August 2011.
  7. ^ Margaret Thornton, "Ire of the beholder", The Australian 24 September 2008 accessed 22 August 2011.
  8. ^ Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research, "Improvements to excellence in research in Australia." Archived 22 August 2011 at the Wayback Machine (Media Release) 30 May 2011 accessed 22 August 2011.
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