Diversity
The UNSW Law Journal recognises the role that academic institutions like ours play in perpetuating historical inequities in academia and the legal profession. To address this, the Journal is committed to supporting diversity within our organisation and legal academia more broadly.
Editorial Board diversity
Diversity within the Journal’s Editorial Board and Executive Committee promotes the robust exchange of ideas, and, by extension, critical thought. It also fosters equitable access to learning opportunities. The Journal urges students of all backgrounds and identities to apply to join our Editorial Board and Executive Committee.
Indigenous Recruitment Stream
The Journal is committed to increasing Indigenous voices on its Editorial Board. The Indigenous Recruitment Stream offers a pathway for Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander-identifying law students to join the Board and contribute to legal policy and academia in Australia while gaining invaluable legal research and writing skills along the way.
Indigenous applicants are supported throughout the recruitment process with the opportunity to be paired with a buddy from the Editorial Board to help answer any questions. Applicants are also given one extra week to complete the editing exercise, meaning three weeks in total.
Authorship
Our approach to supporting diversity in legal academia is twofold, with a focus on both authorship and substance of the scholarship. The Journal encourages submissions from authors of all backgrounds, identities, career stages and levels of educational attainment. We welcome submissions informed by lived experience.As a generalist law journal, it is also important that we pursue diversity and equity in scholarship, in terms of both subject matter and theoretical approach.
Compliance: AIATSIS Code of Ethics for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Research
The Journal is committed to promoting the ethical and responsible practice of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander research in Australia in accordance with the AIATSIS Code of Ethics for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Research (‘AIATSIS Code’).
The Journal assesses submissions addressing legal, cultural or social issues impacting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples for compliance with the AIATSIS Code. A submission may be determined unsuitable to proceed to peer review if it is not consistent with the principles outlined within the AIATSIS Code.
