The editorial process managed by an editorial board comprising approximately 70 law students from the Melbourne Law School.[1] This board operates under the guidance of three editors, faculty advisors, and an advisory board.
The journal was established in 2000 by its founding editor: Suzan Davies, Peter Henley, Kalika Jayasekera, Amanda Rologas, and Tracy Whiriskey, and the Law Faculty of the University of Melbourne, in recognition of the shortage of academic and practice-oriented material dealing with the Asia-Pacific region's relationship with both private and public international law.[citation needed]
Objectives
The journal is a generalist international law review. Its content encompasses both private and public international law. The journal was established as a forum for academics to publish modern perspectives on international law.
Advance Access Policy
In 2016 an advanced access policy was introduced. Articles that have passed the entire editing process well before final publication in their corresponding issue are uploaded on the journal's website as an advance copy. This ensures that the author's work is disseminated as early as possible. Advanced versions are subject to change prior to the final print and online publication of the article.[citation needed]
Past Symposiums, Special Features, and Special Focus Issues
The journal produces symposium issues devoted to particular aspects of international law. It also publishes "features" if one or several articles provide an in-depth focus on a topical issue of international law, or otherwise to highlight pieces of a unique contribution to international law academia.
Australian Guide to Legal Citation
The journal assists the Melbourne University Law Review in its publication of the Australian Guide to Legal Citation ('AGLC').[2] The Australian Guide to Legal Citation is the most widely used legal citation style-guide in the Australian legal community. The AGLC is in its 4th edition and was published in November 2018.[3]
Melbourne Journal of International Law Prize
The "Melbourne Journal of International Law Prize" for 'Outstanding Scholarship in International Law is awarded annually to an author whose article or commentary was published in the previous calendar year. The prize is judged by a panel of three international law scholars appointed by the editors. At least one member of the panel must be a member of the journal's Advisory Board.[4]
Sir Kenneth Bailey Memorial Lecture
The journal has co-hosted the Sir Kenneth Bailey Memorial Lecture with the Melbourne Law School since 2016. It was inaugurated in 1999, at the Commemoration of the Centenary of the 1899 Hague Peace Conference held at the University of Melbourne.[5] The lecture, which focuses on the international legal order, honors the Fourth Dean of the Melbourne Law School, Kenneth Hamilton Bailey, who played a significant part in Australia's contribution to the formation of the United Nations.
Past lectures have been recorded and uploaded on the journal's website.[6]
Editors-in-chief
The following persons are or have been editors-in-chief:
2025 – Pui Lam Lo, Jacinta Speer and Egor Vishniakov
2024 – Felix Geake-Ransome, Megan Stevens and Joseph Zivny
2023 – Jasmine Gan, Jonathan Ta, and Eleanor Twomey
2022 – Matthew Carlei, Tegan Evans, and Nick Hui
2021 – Jeremy Armour, Daniel Ho, and Eileen Yang
2020 – Betty Choi, Jake Fava, and Sophie Ward
2019 – Jake Herd, Sarah Waring, and Elizabeth Wright
2018 – Anna Boháčová, Eliah Castiello, and Michael McArdle
2017 – Mimi Oorlof, Lachlan Sievert, and Adaena Sinclair-Blakemore
2016 – Justin Browne, Kara Connolly, and Anna Saunders
2015 – Holly Cao, Monique MacRitchie, and James Nunez
2014 – Houston Ash, Ashley Kendall, and Sarah Sapuppo
2013 – Chelsea Driessen, Timothy Gorton, and Candice Parr
2012 – Martin Clark, Nuwan Dias, and Eamonn Kelly
2011 – Sam Naparstek, Tiong Tjin Saw, and Suzanne Zhou
2010 – Tim Farhall, Christopher Hibbard, and Mary Quinn
2009 – Laura Bellamy, Sara Dehm, and Jeremy Leung
2008 – Rebecca Hughes, May-Ling Low, and Zach Meyers
2007 – Brownwyn Reddan, Natasha Sung, and Robert Walker
2006 – Frances Dunn, Fergus Green, and Chian Kee
2005 – Laura Deschamps, Megan Donaldson, and Chris Thomas
2004 – Anthony Goh, Michael Jukes, and Mehnaz Yoosuf
2003 – Beth Midgley, Daniel Perkins, and Heidi Stabb
2002 – Fahim Ahad, Elliot Friedman, and Alexia Mayer
2001 – Claudio Bozzi, Andrew Hudson, Christopher Haan, and Jeldee Robertson
2000 – Suzan Davies, Kalika Jayasekera, Amanda Rologas, Peter Henley, and Tracy Whiriskey
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