Submission Guidelines
Submissions to the Media & Arts Law Review are accepted on a rolling basis. They must be a Microsoft Word document. PDF files or links to external sites are not accepted.
Submissions must be in their final form, not a draft. We recommend that submissions follow the LexisNexis Journal Style Guidelines as closely as possible.
Please email submissions to virania.munaf@lexisnexis.com.au.
Style Guidelines
The Media & Arts Law Review follows the Australian Guide to Legal Citation (AGLC)
All accepted papers will be edited according to the AGLC. We encourage authors to align their submissions with the AGLC as closely as possible. While adherence to AGLC is not a factor in the selection process, accepted papers must comply with these guidelines before publication.
Authors are given the opportunity to review edited proofs before their paper is published.
No fees are charged for manuscript processing.
Word Limits
The Media & Arts Law Review does not impose strict word limits and welcomes submissions of varying lengths; standard length for an article would be in the range of 8-10,000 words.
An abstract of 100-150 words must be included.
Submissions should contain footnotes not endnotes.
Graphics
Limit the use of graphics, tables, graphs, images and diagrams to essential instances. All graphics will be adjusted to meet LexisNexis printing standards and may not appear exactly as originally submitted.
Licence and Warranty
By submitting you warrant that the Work will be an original work, has not been published before, including in any online publications, and is not being considered for publication elsewhere, and that the Work is not defamatory and will not infringe the intellectual property or moral rights of any other person.
By submitting the Work, you warrant that you are the owner of the copyright in the Work and you hereby grant LexisNexis an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive licence to publish and reproduce the Work or any part of it.
All authors will be required to sign a Contributor Agreement agreeing to the above Terms and Conditions in order for their submission to be considered for publication.
Peer Review and Publication Ethics
The Media & Arts Law Review employs a blind peer review model. This ensures the identity of both the author and the reviewers remain anonymous, promoting impartiality and objectivity in the review process. Not every submission progresses to peer review and may be declined upon consultation with the Editors and Editorial Board; authors will not receive detailed feedback if their submission does not progress to peer review.
LexisNexis is committed to upholding the highest standards of ethical behaviour in the act of publishing. LexisNexis journals adhere to guidelines, based on the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) Best Practice Guidelines.
Open Access
There is a 24-month embargo period on all published work from the date LexisNexis first publishes the work. After this period authors can share their published journal article via their Social Science Research Network (SSRN), their non-commercial personal website or blog, their university’s website or on other non-commercial open access repositories.
Authors may reproduce abstracts of the approved version or published version, provided that an acknowledgement that work is published by LexisNexis and the full legal citation is included in the acknowledgement.
For a comprehensive overview refer to LexisNexis’ Content Sharing Policy.
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General Editors
Jason Bosland​
Associate Professor, Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne.
Brendan Clift​
Lecturer, Faculty of Law & Justice, UNSW Sydney
Editorial Board
Samtani Anil, Associate Professor, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore —Singapore Media Law
Tanya Aplin, Professor, Dickson Poon School of Law, King’s College London, UK
Catherine Bond, Associate Professor, Faculty of Law & Justice, UNSW Sydney
Ursula Cheer, Professor, School of Law, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
Anne Cheung, Professor, Department of Law, Hong Kong University — Hong Kong Media Law
Graeme Dinwoodie, Global Professor, Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA
Jonathan Griffiths, Professor, Queen Mary, University of London — UK and European IP Law
Michael Handler, Professor, Faculty of Law, University of New South Wales, Australia
Sarah Hook, Senior Lecturer, School of Law, University of Technology Sydney
Vicki Huang, Associate Professor, Deakin Law School
Andrew Kenyon, Professor, Melbourne Law School, The University of Melbourne, Australia
Lyrissa Barnett Lidsky, Dean and Judge, CA Leedy Professor of Law, School of Law, University of Missouri
Fiona Macmillan, Professor, Department of Law, Birkbeck, University of London, UK
Roger D McConchie, McConchie Law, Vancouver, Canada — Canadian Media Law
Megan Richardson, Professor, Melbourne Law School, The University of Melbourne, Australia
David Rolph, Professor, Sydney Law School, The University of Sydney, Australia
Andrew Scott, Associate Professor, Department of Law, London School of Economics and Political Science — UK and European Media Law
David Tan, Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore, Singapore — Singapore IP
Derek Wilding, Professor, School of Law, University of Technology Sydney
Melissa de Zwart, Professor, Jeff Bleich Centre, Flinders University, Australia