Removal of the RQF and the Introduction of the Australasian Law Teachers Association Journal
 

The Executive of ALTA is pleased to announce its plans to create the Journal of the Australasian Law Teachers' Association (JALTA) as an electronic, double blind peer reviewed journal.  The inaugural issue of this journal is planned to be launched in time to receive submissions from the 2008 ALTA conference.

JALTA will represent an important initiative which will support the research endeavours of its members.  The Executive believes that the refereed journal will also respond to the RQF in a more effective manner than refereed conference proceedings and will increase the prestige for ALTA as a professional association.  The journal will also appropriately reflect the maturity and development of ALTA as an organisation which now represents well over 1,000 members.

JALTA is not designed to supplant, but rather complement, existing publications that are produced by ALTA, including the Legal Education Review (LER).

While the objectives of the LER are to “encourage and disseminate research into legal education and to stimulate discussion debate and experimentation on topics related to legal education”, JALTA will be targeted at receiving submissions from particular discipline areas and interest groups within ALTA.  For example, someone who prepares a paper for the Revenue Law Group would be able to submit it to JALTA as a technical paper, leaving LER to continue publishing articles as they pertain to legal education.

In this way, LER and JALTA can happily co-exist and provide a broader avenue for members to publish their work in refereed journals.


We look forward to launching the inaugural issue of JALTA following the 2008 conference. 

Professor Dale Pinto
JALTA Editor-In-Chief
ALTA Executive