Australian law journal

Australian law journal is in Zone 4 of Sociology in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Legal principles and applications, Commonwealth, Australian Politics and Federalism and Law in Society and Culture, together about 33.8% of its articles. Its main subfields are Law. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

About the Journal As one of the oldest and most cited legal journals in Australia, The Australian Law Journal (ISSN: 0004-9611) is the pre-eminent legal journal covering a spectrum of all the important current and historical legal issues. First published in 1927, each monthly Part contains the Current Issues, Conveyancing and Property, and Recent Cases Sections, along with a number of other informative and interesting Sections, as well as two or three articles written by leading legal practitioners, academics, and prominent members of the judiciary. General Editor Justice Francois Kunc of the Supreme Court of New South Wales Assistant General Editors Angelina Gomez, Lawyer, Perth Emily Vale, Solicitor, Sydney Ruth C A Higgins SC, Barrister, Sydney Dr Nuncio D’Angelo, Solicitor, Sydney Katy Barnett, Professor, Melbourne Section Editors Administrative Law Justice Melissa Perry Admiralty & Maritime Dr Damien Cremean Book Reviews Angelina Gomez Class Actions Justice Michael B Lee Competition & Consumer Law John Kettle Constitutional Law Professor Anne Twomey Conveyancing & Property Robert Angyal SC and Professor Brendan Edgeworth Corporations & Securities Dr Beth Nosworthy Crime & Evidence Justice Phillip Priest Current Issues Justice Francois Kunc Environmental Law Justice Rachel Pepper Equity & Trusts Justice Mark Leeming Family Law Justice Grant Riethmuller From the Law Schools Professor David Barker Human Rights Professor Simon Rice International Focus Professor Stuart Kaye The Legal Observer Michael Pelly New Zealand Justice Matthew Palmer Personalia Emily Vale Recent Cases Ruth C A Higgins SC Statutory Interpretation Justice John Basten Technology and the Law Associate Professor Lyria Bennett Moses State and Territory Editors: Around the Nation Australian Capital Territory Justice David Mossop Northern Territory The Hon Dean Mildren RFD Queensland John McKenna QC South Australia Justice Kevin Nicholson Tasmania Justice Stephen Estcourt AM Victoria Justice Clyde Croft AM Western Australia Justice Kenneth Martin Indexing/abstracting services The following websites contain details of material published in the Journal: http://legal.thomsonreuters.com.au/australian-legal-journals-index-online/productdetail/85643 (Australian Legal Journals Index) https://clarivate.com/products/web-of-science/ (Web of Science Emerging Sources Citation Index) The Australian Legal Journals Index is an online legal database prepared by the Lionel Murphy Library of the Commonwealth Attorney-General’s Department. It is produced by Thomson Reuters and is available via subscription. The ESCI (Emerging Sources Citation Index) is an online database formerly produced by Thomson Reuters and now maintained by Clarivate Analytics. It is part of the Web of Science Core Collection and is available via subscription. Subscribe or Purchase To subscribe to this Journal or purchase individual articles, please visit our Subscribe or Purchase page. The ALJ is also available on the Thomson Reuters ProView eReader platform, for fast and flexible access on your iPad®, Android® tablet or computer. Contents listing For the individual contents pages for each Part, click here.

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): LAW

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Indexing the journal's website claims

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Impact

h-index

4OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

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2-year mean citedness

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Self-citation rate

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Share of gold OA articles

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Volume

Articles per year

43LetPub · 2026-09-13

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ISSN

0004-9611

Official links

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