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Editorial
EDITORIAL
ELOISE KNEEBONE*
The launch of Issue 42(1) of the University of New South Wales Law Journal
('Journal') marks the one year anniversary of the Journal's shift to publishing
three entirely general issues and one thematic issue each year.1 This anniversary
provides an opportunity to reflect upon the past year for the Journal, which has
seen a number of successes well beyond the new publication structure.
In the past 12 months, the Journal has launched a new website; established the
UNSWLaw Journal Forum to publish short-form, current, scholarly pieces online;
and had one article go 'viral' online2 - perhaps a first for the Journal. It has also
been an exciting year for legal citation across the country, with the release of the
fourth edition of the Australian Guide to Legal Citation late in 2018.
In the spirit of Lynch and Williams' much-loved annual study of the High
Court published in the Journal,3 a few statistics from the past year also shed some
light on the year that has been for the Journal.
The four issues of the Journal published in 2018 included 43 articles. The
articles published covered a wide array of legal issues. From Journal-favourite
topics of constitutional and criminal law; to more niche areas of coronial law and
the role of artificial intelligence in judicial decision-making; to highly topical
issues of Indigenous constitutional recognition and the wellbeing of lawyers; there
have been a plethora of insightful, diverse articles published in the Journal.
The Journal increased the number of articles it published in each issue over
the course of 2018, reflecting the large number of high-quality articles submitted
* Editor, Issue 42(1), 2019.
1 For further information, see Rose Vassel, 'Editorial' (2018) 41 University of New South Wales Law
Journal 1. Prior to 2018, the Journal published four Issues per year, with each Issue including a thematic
and general component.
2 Terry Carney, 'The New Digital Future for Welfare: Debts Without Legal Proofs or Moral Authority?'
[2018] No 1 University of New South Wales Law Journal Forum; as discussed in media reports including:
Christopher Knaus, 'Expert Attacks Centrelink Robo-Debt and Moral Bankruptcy that Allows It', The
Guardian (online), 18 December 2018 <https://www.theguardian.com/australia-
news/2018/dec/18/expert-attacks-centrelink-robo-debt-and-moml-bankrtptcy-that-allows-it>; Cameron
Houston and Chris Vedelago, 'Top QC Slams Centrelink's Robo-Debt Program as Elaborate Sham',
Sydney Morning Herald (online), 2 December 2018 <https://www.smh.com.au/national/top-qc-slams-
centrelink-s-robo-debt-progmm-as-elaborate-sham-20181202-p5ojos.html>; ABC Radio National,
'Review Argues there's No Legal Foundation for Australia's Robo-Debt System', RN Drive, 5 April
2018 (Patricia Karvelas) <https://www.abc.net.au/mdionational/progmms/drive/review-argues-theres-no-
legal-foundation-for-austmlias-robod/9623996>.
3 For a full list of articles published in this series, see the Appendix in Andrew Lynch and George
Williams, 'The High Court on Constitutional Law: The 2017 Statistics' (2018) 41 University of New
South Wales Law Journal 1134, 1157-8.](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.journals/swales42&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)
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