UWA Law Review

The University of Western Australia Law Review (UWA Law Review) is Australia's oldest University Law Journal, first published in 1948.

It provides a forum for the airing of articles on topics of current national and international legal significance. Each alternate issue addresses a theme of contemporary moment. These thematic issues alternate with a general issue. The general issue comprises articles of general legal interest and provides a forum for publications with a Western Australian focus.

 

The UWA Law Review is included in the Australasian Legal Scholarship Library which is one of the largest collections of legal scholarship on the web.

All articles in the Library are also included in the LawCite international citatory. Articles may be searched for by journal (citation), author, or article name.

The UWA Law Review is managed by a Staff Editor with the support of a team of senior student editors, and benefits from the advice of a distinguished Editorial Advisory Board.

Editorial Advisory Board

The UWA Law Review Editorial Advisory Board is made up of distinguished national and international legal scholars.
Editorial Advisory Board

Professor Jeff Berryman
Faculty of Law
University of Windsor
Canada 

Kanaga Dharmananda SC
WA Bar

Professor Rosalind Croucher
President
Australian Human Rights Commission

Professor Peter Drahos
European University Institute
Florence

The Hon James Edelman
High Court of Australia

Professor Susy Frankel
Professor of Law, Associate Dean (Research)
Faculty of Law, Victoria University of Wellington

Professor Elise Bant
University of Melbourne

Prof. Dr. Reto M. Hilty
Director, Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property and Competition Law
München, Germany

John Eldridge
University of Sydney

Professor James Goudkamp 
Oxford University

Professor Serena Forlati
Director, Centre for European Legal Studies on Macro-Crime, Department of Law, University of Ferrara

Professor Anselm Kamperman Sanders
Faculty of Law, Maastricht University

 

Announcement of the Fencott v Muller Prize

Just over 40 years have passed since the landmark decision in Fencott v Muller [1983] HCA 12. The case featured a finely balanced decision that touched on matters of federal jurisdiction, the corporations power and trade practices law. Not only did the decision relate to a Western Australian business, but it featured a number of notable UWA alumni acting as counsel on both sides: Robert Meadows AM KC, Hon Robert French AC, John Ley SC, Hon Malcolm Lee KC and Peter Johnston. The decision continues to reverberate to this day.

To celebrate the decision and the activities of UWA alumni in helping shape the law, the UWA Law Review is pleased to announce a new $1,000 prize, kindly provided by the Hon Robert French AC, for the best article on a topic related to federal jurisdiction, the corporations power or trade practices law.

To be eligible, articles must be submitted to the UWA Law Review by no later than February 2025, and accepted for publication in Issue 1 of 2025.

Selection of the winning article will be made by an expert panel convened by the UWA Law Review staff editors.

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Authors' responsibilities

No fees or charges are required for manuscript processing and/or publishing.

All authors must have significantly contributed to the research.

All authors are obliged to provide retractions or corrections of mistakes.

Authors should list their references and indicate if any financial support has been received in relation to their articles.

It is forbidden to publish the same research in more than one journal.

Peer review process

All articles considered for publication in the UWA Law Review are subjected to peer review.

Peer review is defined as obtaining advice on individual manuscripts from reviewers expert in the field.

Judgments of reviewers should be objective.

Reviewers should have no conflict of interest.

Reviewers will point out relevant published work which is not yet cited.

Reviewed articles will be treated confidentially.

Publication ethics

We will take reasonable steps to identify and prevent the publication of papers where research misconduct has occurred.

In no case will the UWA Law Review or its editors encourage such misconduct, or knowingly allow such misconduct to take place.

In the event that the UWA Law Review or editors are made aware of any allegation of research misconduct the publisher or editor shall deal with allegations appropriately.

The UWA Law Review will publish corrections, clarifications, retractions and apologies when needed.

Archiving

Previous issues of the UWA Law Review are available on Austlii.

Ownership and management

The UWA Law Review is published by The University of Western Australia.

Publishing schedule

In 2015 the UWA Law Review became a digital only publication. It is published at least twice annually, with a thematic issue alternating with a general issue.

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UWA Law Review student editors

Each year, a selected group of senior postgraduate law students participate in a for-credit unit as student editors of the UWA Law Review, supporting the work of the staff editor. This is a 6-point unit spread across two semesters.

The task of student editors involves participating in strategic planning and general management of the Review, assisting with the evaluation of items submitted for publication (including by preparing short critical reports), editing those items and checking proofs, as well as developing an independent piece of academic writing for potential publication in the Review or elsewhere. Students may also participate in organising academic conferences hosted within the Law School, with a view to producing special thematic issues of the Review.

Contact UWA Law Review

General Enquiries

[email protected]

Staff Editor

Dr Jessica Kerr
Email: [email protected]

Postal Address
UWA Law Review
The University of Western Australia
Faculty of Law (M253)
35 Stirling Highway CRAWLEY WA 6009

University of Western Australia Law Review

ISSN: 0042-0328
Publisher: University of Western Australia *Law School
Country: Australia
Start Year: 1948
Refereed: Yes

Copyright and Access

Copyright remains with the authors. Requests for licensing should be addressed to them.

Since 2015 the UWA Law Review is available online and is gratis to readers.