Melbourne Journal of International Law

MJIL was established in 2000 by its founding Editors: Suzan Davies, Peter Henley, Kalika Jayasekera, Amanda Rologas and Tracy Whiriskey; and the Law Faculty of the University of Melbourne. The Journal was established in recognition of the shortage of academic and practice-oriented material dealing with the Asia-Pacific region's relationship with both private and public international law.

MJIL is a generalist international law academic journal. Its content encompasses both private and public international law. The Journal was established as a forum for academics to publish modern perspectives on international law. MJIL aims to facilitate informed and considered discussion of contemporary international issues. It is invested in publishing a wide range of styles, perspectives and opinions through articles, book reviews, case notes, commentaries, review essays and think pieces.

In 2016, MJIL introduced an advance access policy. Articles that have passed the entire editing process well before final publication in its corresponding issue are uploaded on the MJIL website as an advance copy. This ensures that the author’s work is disseminated as early as possible. Advanced versions are subject to change prior to the final print and online publication of the article.

The Journal produces symposium issues devoted to particular aspects of international law. Past symposium and special focus issues include:

• The Cultures of Human Rights (2006)
• International Humanitarian Law (2007)
• Feature: Reflections on a Decade of International Law (2009)
• Climate Justice and International Environmental Law: Rethinking the North-South Divide (2009)
• International Humanitarian Law and International Criminal Law: The Future, the Present, the Past (2012)
• Issue Focus: Statehood & Sovereignty (2013)
• The Trans-Pacific Partnership (2016)
• Intersection of Law and Technology (2019)

MJIL also publishes ‘special features’ if one or several articles provide an in-depth focus on a topical issue of international law, or otherwise to highlight pieces of unique contribution to international law academia.

In collaboration with the Melbourne University Law Review, the Journal publishes the Australian Guide to Legal Citation ('AGLC').[2] The Australian Guide to Legal Citation is the most widely used legal citation style-guide in the Australian legal community. The AGLC is in its 4th edition and was published in November 2018.[3]

The Advisory Board is composed of Melbourne Law School faculty members and provides guidance to the Editorial Board on matters of content and policy. The current members of the Advisory Board are:

• Professor Alison Duxbury (Professor, Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne)
• Professor Michelle Foster (Programme Director, International Refugee Law, Institute for International Law and the Humanities; Professor and Associate Dean (Research), Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne)
• Professor Richard Garnett (Professor of Law, Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne; Consultant (International Disputes), Corrs Chambers Westgarth)
• Professor Kirsty Gover (Research Programme Co-Director, Indigenous Peoples in International and Comparative Law; Professor, Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne)
• Professor Andrew Kenyon (Associate, Centre for Media and Communications Law, University of Melbourne; Professor, Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne)
• Professor Tim McCormack (Special Advisor on International Humanitarian Law to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court; Professor of Law and Dean, Faculty of Law, University of Tasmania; Professorial Fellow, Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne)
• Professor Andrew D Mitchell* (Director, Global Economic Law Network, University of Melbourne; Professor and Australian Research Council Future Fellow, Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne)
• Professor Anne Orford (Australian Research Council Kathleen Fitzpatrick Fellow, University of Melbourne, Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor and Michael D Kirby Professor of International Law, Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne)
• Professor Bruce Oswald CSC* (Director, Asia-Pacific Centre for Military Law, University of Melbourne; Professor, Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne)
• Professor Sundhya Pahuja (Fellow, Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, Programme Director, Law and Development, Institute for International Law and the Humanities; Professor of Law, Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne)
• Professor Jacqueline Peel* (Programme Director, International Environmental Law, Institute for International Law and the Humanities; Programme Director, Centre for Resources, Environmental and Energy Law, University of Melbourne; Professor, Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne)
• Professor John Tobin* (Co-Director of Studies, International Human Rights Law, Institute for International Law and the Humanities; Professor, Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne)
• Professor Tania Voon (Programme Director, Global Trade, Institute for International Law and the Humanities; Professor, Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne)
• Professor Margaret Young (Director of Studies, Environmental Law, Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne; Professor, Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne)

The Honorary Advisory Board is composed of scholars and legal practitioners who have made an outstanding contribution to international law and who have contributed to MJIL and its running. The current members of the Honorary Advisory Board are:

• Professor Philip Alston (John Norton Pomeroy Professor, New York University School of Law; UN Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights)
• Professor Hilary Charlesworth (Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow; Director, Centre for International Governance and Justice, Regulatory Institutions Network, College of Asia and the Pacific; Melbourne Laurete Professor, Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne; Distinguished Professor, Australian National University)
• Professor Christine Chinkin (Emerita Professor of International Law, London School of Economics and Political Science; William W Cook Global Law Professor, University of Michigan Law School; Barrister, Matrix Chambers)
• Professor James Crawford AC SC (Judge, International Court of Justice; Former Whewell Professor of International Law, University of Cambridge)
• Mr Francis Gurry (Director General, World Intellectual Property Organization)
• Professor James C Hathaway (James E and Sarah A Degan Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School; Distinguished Visiting Professor of International Refugee Law, University of Amsterdam; Former Dean of Law, University of Melbourne)
• Professor Kevin Jon Heller (Associate Professor of International Law; University of Amsterdam; Professor of Law, Australian National University; Professor of Criminal Law, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London)
• Professor Mary Hiscock (Emeritus Professor of Law, Bond University)
• Mr William Holder (Former Deputy General Counsel, Legal Department, International Monetary Fund)
• The Hon Michael Kirby AC CMG (Co-Chair, Human Rights Institute, International Bar Association; Member, United Nations Secretary-General's High-Level Panel on Access to Essential Healthcare (2015–16); Chair, Human Rights Council, Commission of Inquiry on the People's Democratic Republic of Korea (2013–14); Former Justice of the High Court of Australia (1996–2009); Former United Nations Special Representative for Human Rights in Cambodia (1993–96))
• Professor Geoffrey Lindell (Professorial Fellow, Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne; Adjunct Professor, Law School, The University of Adelaide)
• The Hon Sir Anthony Mason AC KBE GBM (Non-Permanent Judge of the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal; Former Justice (1972–87) and Chief Justice (1987–95) of the High Court of Australia; Distinguished Visiting Fellow, College of Law, Australian National University)
• Professor Gerry Simpson (Chair in Public International Law, London School of Economics; Professor of Public International Law, London School of Economics)
• Emeritus Professor Gillian Triggs (Assistant High Commissioner for Protection, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees; Former President, Australian Human Rights Commission; Former Dean of Law, University of Sydney; Former Director, British Institute for International and Comparative Law)