The Melbourne University Law Review is one of Australia’s leading generalist law journals. Submissions to the Review are subject to independent, anonymous peer review prior to acceptance for publication. The Review is published three times a year and is managed by an Editorial Board comprising students of the Melbourne Law School at The University of Melbourne.
The Review publishes articles on all areas of law, as well as case notes, book reviews and review essays. The Review also publishes shorter comment-style pieces in the Critique and Comment section. Occasionally, the Review produces a symposium edition devoted to a particular aspect of law. Past symposium editions of the Review have focused on the centenary of federation, contemporary human rights in Australia, and tort law.
The Review is now accepting submissions for our 2010 volume 34(1) issue. Our submission requirements and Publication Policy are available here.
The Review also produces the Australian Guide to Legal Citation, which has been adopted widely by law schools and law journals in Australia and New Zealand as their preferred style guide. The Review is currently preparing a third edition of the Australian Guide to Legal Citation, and asks all journals that have adopted the Guide to inform the Review of this (so they can be included in the third edition).
The latest issue of the Review includes the following articles:
Peter Billings, 'Still Paying the Price for Benign Intentions? Contextualising Contemporary Interventions in the Lives of Aboriginal Peoples'
Tin A Bunjevac, 'Credit Rating Agencies: A Regulatory Challenge for Australia'
Annie Cossins, 'Cross-Examination in Child Sexual Assault Trials: Evidentiary Safeguard or an Opportunity to Confuse?'
Jeremy Gans, 'The Charter's Irremediable Remedies Provision'
Andrew Godwin, 'The Professional "Tug of War": The Regulation of Foreign Lawyers in China, Business Scope Issues and Some Suggestions for Reform'
Natalie Klein and Nikolas Hughes, 'National Litigation and International Law: Repercussions for Australia's Protection of Marine Resources'
Kelvin F K Low, 'The Nature of Torrens Indefeasibility: Understanding the Limits of Personal Equities'
Paul A Walker, 'Change of Position and Restitution for Wrongs: "Ne'er the Twain Shall Meet"?'
Katharine Gelber, 'The False Analogy between Vilification and Sedition'
Ben McEniery, '"Storyline Patents": Are Plots Patentable?'
Michael Bryan, 'Lumbers v W Cook Builders Pty Ltd (in liq) — Restitution for Services and the Allocation of Contractual Risk'
Please note: due to the relocation of a University of Melbourne data centre, the Review's website will be unavailable or may not function properly between 7:45am and 7pm on Tuesday 1 December 2009. The Review apologises for any inconvenience caused by this, which is unfortunately beyond our control.