'Adelaide Law Review' from university law school featured global and national prestige scholarship since 1960

The Adelaide Review Law is edited by students of the Law School at Adelaide University.

The Adelaide Law Review, established in 1960, became one of the oldest and most prestigious in Australia, publishing the research of the foremost national and international legal scholars.

The Review typically published two issues each year and was managed by an editorial board of select faculty members of the Adelaide Law School at Adelaide University.

A team of student editors of The Adelaide Law Review was selected each year on the basis of academic excellence in the bachelor of laws program, and associate editors were chosen each year from the top student editors in the previous year. The Review published articles, comments, review essays, case notes and book reviews on all areas of the law. Submissions to The Adelaide Law Review received independent anonymous peer review before being accepted.

Established in 1883, Adelaide Law School was one of the earliest in Australia. The Adelaide Law School’s Ligertwood Building was opened in 1967 and provides some of the best library resources for law students in Australia, along with a special purpose-built Moot Court.

Adelaide Law School was the first to admit women to study law in Australia and continue to break ground through world-leading research. Its significant role in the development of international law for military uses of outer space is expected to impact space law for decades and centuries to come.

The school’s contribution to legal reform through the South Australian Law Reform Institute becoame a critical part of South Australia’s law reform  It also was a national leader in insolvency, taxation, labour and constitutional law.