Australian Legal Research Sources: Law Reviews

Updated Nov. 2, 2011.
Prepared by Cheryl Nyberg. Updated by Gabriela Femenia.

The Gallagher Law Library subscribes to many Australian law reviews and legal periodicals. Many of these titles are listed on the table below.

AustLII, Hein Online, LexisNexis, and/or Westlaw offer online versions of some titles. Beginning year of coverage is indicated in the table below. Note that vendors add new titles occasionally. AustLII is a free website; Hein Online, LexisNexis, and Westlaw are available only to subscribers.


Indexes

Many Australian law reviews and legal periodicals are indexed in:

LegalTrac, 1980-date. UW Restricted

Index to Legal Periodicals, 1908-date.
K33.I5 at Reference Area

Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals, 1960-date. UW Restricted
K33.I46 at Reference Area.


Law Review Titles & Availability

Key

ILP = law review is indexed in the Index to Legal Periodicals, beginning in the year indicated

LT = law reviewis indexed in LegalTrac, beginning in the year indicated

Library = print copies of the law review are available in the Gallagher Law Library, in the Compact Stacks on Floor L2, where the law reviews are arranged by title; subscription beginning in the year indicated

AustLII, HeinOnline, LexisNexis, and Westlaw = online sources, beginning in the year indicated.

HeinOnline provides a list of all of the Australia law reviews it offers; so does AustLII.

*Indexed in the Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals.

Title ILP LT Library AustLII or Hein Online LexisNexis / AUST Westlaw
Adelaide Law Review 1981 1984 1960 HeinOnline, 1960    
Auckland University Law Review 1981 1980 1967 AUSTLII, 2003; HeinOnline, 1967-2009    
Australian Bar Review 1989 1991 1985   ABR, 1994  
Australia & New Zealand Journal of Law & Education       HeinOnline, 1996-2010    
Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology 1997 1981     ANZJC, 1994-98  
Australian and New Zealand Maritime Law Journal       HeinOnline, 1983    
Australian Banking & Finance   2001        
Australian Business Law Review   1980        
Australian Competition and Consumer Law Journal         ACCLJ, 1993  
Australian Feminist Law Journal   2004        
Australian Indigenous Law Review       HeinOnline, 1996    
Australian International Law Journal   2001   HeinOnline, 1983-2003    
Australian Journal of Asian Law*     1999      
Australian Journal of Corporate Law 1992       AJCOR, 1994  
Australian Journal of Family Law 1989 1991     AJFL, 1994  
Australian Journal of Foresic Sciences   1980        
Australian Journal of Human Rights     1994 AUSTLII, 1994    
Australian Journal of Labour Law 1989 1989     AJLL, 1994  
Australian Journal of Law and Society   1983-98        
Australian Journal of Legal History      

AUSTLII, 2003; HeinOnline, 1995-2009

   
Australian Journal of Legal Philosophy       HeinOnline, 1977    
Australian Law Journal   1980        
Australian Resources and Energy Law Journal       HeinOnline, 1982-2007    
Australian Tax Review 1989 1980       ASTRLTAXREV, 1997
Australian Yearbook of International Law* 1981 1991 1965 HeinOnline, 1965    
Bond Law Review   1989        
Canberra Law Review 1995 1999 only 1994 HeinOnline, 1994-2005    
Deakin Law Review 1995 2001 1994 AustLII, 2001; HeinOnline, 1994 AISL, 1994  
Federal Law Review   1986 1964 AUSTLII, 2001; HeinOnline, 1964    
High Court Review       AUSTLII, 1995-2000    
Insurance Law Journal 1989 1990     AISL, 1994  
International Trade and Business Law Review *            
James Cook University Law Review 1995 1999 1994 HeinOnline, 2002    
Journal of Australian Taxation       AUSTLII, 2005 JAUSTT, 2005  
Journal of Contract Law 1989 1990     AJCL, 1993  
Journal of Equity *            
Lawasia Journal *            
Macarthur Law Review 1997   1997-2000      
Melbourne Journal of International Law 2003 2001 2000

AUSTLII, 2000; HeinOnline, 2000

   
Melbourne University Law Review 1981 1980 1957 AustLII, 1999; HeinOnline, 1957 MULR, 1997. MELULR, 1997
Monash University Law Review 1981 1980 1974 HeinOnline, 1974    
Murdoch University Electronic Journal of Law       AUSTLII, 1993    
Queensland University of Technology Law & Justice Journal 2001 2001 2001 AustLII, 2001; HeinOnline, 2001    
Sydney Law Review 1982 1980 1953 AustLII, 2003; HeinOnline, 1953 SYDLRV, 1999.  
Torts Law Journal 1993 1993     ATLJ, 1993  
University of New South Wales Law Journal 1981 1980 1975 AustLII, 1997; HeinOnline, 1975    
University of Queensland Law Journal 1981 1980 1948

AustLII, 2005; HeinOnline, 1948

   
University of Tasmania Law Review 1980 1980 1964 HeinOnline, 1958-2005    
University of Western Australia Law Review 1980 1980 1960      
Vindobona Journal of International Commercial Law & Arbitration           VJ, 1999

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