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Welcome to The UWA Law Review

The UWA Law Review has the distinction of being one of the oldest university law journals published in Australia. It first appeared in 1948, initially on an annual basis, but since 1987 it has been published twice a year.

Since 1988 the journal has been edited by a small group of final year law students (currently six in number) under the supervision of the Staff Editor, George Syrota.

The journal’s circulation has grown steadily over recent years and it has now reached nearly 500 subscribers. Almost half of these are universities (in Australasia, the United States and Britain), but 70 Australian Commonwealth and State government departments (including Federal and State court libraries) also subscribe, the remaining subscribers being law firms and individual lawyers throughout Australia. The journal has a particularly strong subscription base in Western Australia.

Whilst the journal aims to include articles on a broad range of topics of national and international importance, there is a focus on Western Australian legal issues, which have occasionally formed a separate section of the journal, 'The Western Australian Forum'.

Surveys published in other university law journals have shown The UWA Law Review to be one of the most quoted Australian university law journals. A citation analysis published in 1997 rated The UWA Law Review as the sixth most cited law journal out of 48 surveyed[1], whilst a survey published in 1999 showed that The UWA Law Review was the third most cited Australian university law journal in judgments of the High Court handed down in 1996[2]. This survey specifically singled out The UWA Law Review as one of three Australian university law journals which have ‘increased in importance over time’[3].

The UWA Law Review is a refereed journal.

[1]    I Ramsay & P Stapleton ‘A Citation Analysis of Australian Law Journals’ (1997) 21 Melb ULR 676, 692, Table 2. An alternative ranking placed the UWA Law Review 11th out of 48.

[2]    R Smith ‘A Quantitative Study of Secondary Source Citations in the High Court’ (1999) 22 UNSW LJ 19, 43, Table 4.

[3]    Ibid, 34.

 
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