Volume 49
Issues 2026
- No 1 General Issue | Apr
- No 2 Thematic Issue | Jul
- No 3 General Issue | Oct
- No 4 Thematic Issue | Dec
General Issue
Apr 2026
Articles:
Editorial
Grace Xin Yi Leow
Navigating Continuity and Change: The High Court on Constitutional Law in the 2024 Term
Anne Carter
The Role of Parliament in Indigenous–State Agreement-Making
Harry Hobbs
A Matter of Precedent: Are All Questions of First Nations Sovereignty Really Non-justiciable in Australian Courts?
Olivia Barr
Those Who Make the Law May Break the Law? A Comparative Review of the Application of Insider Trading Laws to Lawmakers in the United States and Australia
Patrick Hart and Juliette Overland
Superannuation Funds and Australian Corporate Governance
Tim Bowley
The Test for Lawful but Illegitimate Pressure
William Garske
Of Trees and Takings: Environmental Regulations and the (In)efficient Provision of Public Goods
Michael JR Crawford
Economic Exploitation, Ineffective Regulations, and a Misguided Trial: Future Directions for Gambling Reform in New South Wales
Charlotte Macdonald and Shireen Morris
Buy Now Pay Later and Its Intersection with Family Violence: Prevalence and Prevention
Vivien Chen, Jozica Kutin and Roslyn Russell
The Medical Border and Australia’s Extraterritorial Asylum Regime
Sara Dehm
Thematic Issue
July 2026
Articles:
Editorial
Dean Cheong Foo
Foreword
Tom Blackburn SC
Serious Harm to Reputation: Evolution or Revolution?
David Rolph
Liberal Principles and the Right to a Private Life: Why Australia's Institutional Press Should Face a Privacy Tort
Russell Blackford
Social Media as Curators of Speech: The New State of Free Speech
Madeleine Hale
We Need to Modernise the System for Issuing Warrants: Key Findings from the Independent Review of the Surveillance Legislaiton Amendment (Identify and Disrupt) Act 2021 (Cth)
Jake Blight
What Is Fair and Reasonable? Rethinking Privacy Expectations
Joel Lisk and Paul Sigar
Permission to Speak: Who Controls Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Language Use in Australia's Parliaments?
Alexandra Grey
Whose Best Interests Are Prioritised? An Assessment of the Best Interests Duty and the Proposed Amendments to the Regulation of Financial Product Advice
Sotiris Haris
An Argument for Second Look Sentencing in Australia
Mirko Bagaric, John Anderson and Brendon Murphy
Paths of Reasoning Towards Guilt: The Principled Limits of Drawing Adverse Inferences from Unexplained Circumstances in Criminal Trials
Adam Lukacs
Damned Statistics, Bad Tendencies: Relevant, Probative, and Admissible Evidence of Judicial Bias
David Hamer and Gary Edmond
General Issue
Oct 2026
Articles:
Editorial
Sruthi Sivakumar
The Interface of Inquests with Consumer Law and Policy: The Takata Airbag Debacle in Australia and Beyond
Luke Nottage
Revisiting the Concept of Planned Obsolescence in Light of the Recent Reforms in Europe and Australia: A Necessary Step for the Circular Economy Transition
Margherita Feleppa
New Frontiers in Australian Nature Law: Leadership and Inspiration from the Subnational Jurisdiction?
Anita Foerster, Phillipa C McCormack and Justine Bell-James
Class Actions and the High Court: A Thematic Analysis
Vicki Waye, Vince Morabito and Michael Duffy
‘A Position Approaching a Scandal’: The Proprietary Company in Victoria, 1896–1938
Jodie Boyd and Marina Nehme
Aggregation in Corporate Attribution Law: A Window into Organisational Culpability
Nicholas Cokis
‘We Are Lawyers, We Are Not Psychologists’: How Victorian Personal Injury Lawyers Perceive and Respond to Clients’ Emotional Needs During Mediation
Tina Popa, Christina Platz, Kayleigh Young and Kate Jackowski
YZA v Western Australia Police and the Potential of Legislated Family Violence Jury Directions to Shift Judicial Reasoning in Family Violence Cases
Hannah McGlade, Stella Tarrant and Julia Tolmie
Distinct Nations, Distinct Meanings: Understanding Nationhood through Indigenous Voices
Madeleine Perrett
Decolonisation and the Right to Protest in Australia: Proposing aRight to Indigenous Protest
Stephen Gray, Xena Atkins, Maria O’Sullivan and Tania Penovic