Australian Law Journal

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| abbreviation = Aust. Law J.

| discipline = Law

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| language = English

| editor = Justice François Kunc (2016– )

| publisher = Thomson Reuters

| country = Australia

| history = 1927–present

| frequency = Monthly

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| ISSN = 0004-9611

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| LCCN = 33024673

| OCLC = 01518834

| website = http://sites.thomsonreuters.com.au/journals/category/the-australian-law-journal/

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The Australian Law Journal is an Australian peer-reviewed law journal which has been publishing since 1927. Studies have found that it is one of the most cited Australian law journals.{{cn|date=November 2023}}

A 2002 study found that while on the Federal Court of Australia and the High Court of Australia judges published academic articles most often in the Australian Law Journal in both decades studied, the 1980s and 1990s.Smyth, Russell "Judges and Academic Scholarship: An Empirical Study of the Academic Publication Patterns of Federal Court and High Court Judges" [2002] QUTLawJJl 12; (2002) 2(2) Queensland University of Technology Law and Justice Journal 198

The first editor "set out to create in the ALJ, a Journal somewhere between the learned reviews and the practical magazines of the English legal profession."[http://www.lawfoundation.net.au/ljf/app/&id=AB9AD8B63860456ACA2571A80020B149 "Presentation of a Portrait of Sir Bernard Sugarman to the Supreme Court of NSW"] Law and Justice Foundation, 24 July 1995 accessed 28 August 2011.

Past editors have included Bernard Sugerman (1927–1946), Rae Else-Mitchell (1946–1958), Russell Walter Fox (1958–1967), Nigel Bowen (1958–1961), Philip Jeffrey (1968–1973),{{efn|Philip Jeffrey QC was a Sydney-educated barrister, Teaching Fellow in Law, University of Sydney, and a Judge of the Supreme Court of New South Wales. He died sometime before 1988, but further information is elusive.}} Professor J. G. Starke QC (1974–1992),{{efn|Joseph Gabriel "Joe" Starke QC (1911–2006) of Griffith, ACT, was in 1980 consultant to the Australian Law Reform Commission on human rights in international law. He was author of An Introduction to International Law (Butterworth, London).{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article125608538 |title=The Week |newspaper=The Canberra Times |volume=54 |issue=16,354 |location=Australian Capital Territory, Australia |date=5 July 1980 |access-date=12 November 2023 |page=2 |via=National Library of Australia}}}} and Peter Young AO (1992–2016).Kevin Edmund Lindgren, [http://www.fedcourt.gov.au/aboutct/judges_papers/speeches_lindgrenj1.html "Is the Australian Law Journal an Australian law journal?" (speech) The Judges' Review Conference 2007, 16 March 2007, Sydney.] The Assistant Editor and Revenue Editor (1977–87) was the later Chief Justice of Tuvalu, The Hon Charles Sweeney QC.