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Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal

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Abbreviated title (ISO 4)
  
OUCLJ

Language
  
English

Publication history
  
2001-present

Discipline
  
International law

Edited by
  
Tobias Lutzi

Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal

Publisher
  
Taylor and Francis (United Kingdom)

The Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal (OUCLJ) is a postgraduate-edited international and comparative law journal from the University of Oxford's Faculty of Law, covering the study of legal trends and developments within and between Commonwealth jurisdictions.

Contents

Content

The journal includes articles, case notes and book reviews. Case notes critically analyse and evaluate rulings from the House of Lords, the Privy Council, and the national courts of the Commonwealth States.

Topics of recent articles

  • Comparative: good faith; agency; consideration; legitimate expectation; equity and unregistered land rights; recovery of economy loss in negligence; the Westminster system; breach of trust; comparative models of constitutionalism; unjust enrichment; rights of survivorship; violence in professional sport; entrapment; Internet libel.
  • Africa: state liability in Botswana; economic development in Ghana; policing in Kenya; management of land in Nigeria; extrajudicial services of judges in South Africa; corporate insolvency in Zambia.
  • Asia: human rights litigation in Hong Kong; confidentiality regarding HIV/AIDS in India; case-management in Singapore.
  • The Americas: capital punishment in the Caribbean; freedom of religious expression in Canada.
  • Oceania: native title in Australia; the rule of law in Fiji; jurisprudential theory in New Zealand; divorce in the Solomon Islands.
  • Compulsory voting
  • Statutory interpretation

    • Organisation

    The OUCLJ was for its first decade published by Hart Publishing but moved to Taylor & Francis in 2015. It is the flagship journal of the University of Oxford's postgraduate law community, designed for contributions from academics, professionals and policy-makers, wherever situated, on matters of current interest to Commonwealth legal systems. Created in 2001, the journal provides a forum for international debate on both private and public law topics. Some pieces are explicitly comparative in orientation, while others concern a single jurisdiction only. All pieces published in the OUCLJ are selected on the basis that they are likely to be of interest to a larger Commonwealth audience. Submissions for publication are double-blind peer reviewed. The journal is financially assisted by the Rhodes Trust.

    Patrons

    The Journal is supported by a board of patrons consisting of current or former judges from Commonwealth jurisdictions, namely:

  • Edwin Cameron (South Africa)
  • James Edelman (Australia)
  • Lord Goff of Chieveley (England and Wales)
  • Kenneth Hayne (Australia)
  • Sir Kenneth Keith (New Zealand)
  • Sujata Manohar (India)
  • Robert Ribeiro (Hong Kong)
  • Robert Sharpe (Canada)
  • Anthony Smellie (Cayman Islands)

    • References

    Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA