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The Australian Year Book of International Law is the longest standing dedicated international law journal published in Australia. The Year Book was established in 1966 and over the intervening years has focussed on developments in international law which particularly impact upon Australia and the region. A feature of the Year Book is that it also includes an official entry on Australian Practice in International Law which is prepared by the Australian government. This entry has evolved to become the authoritative statement by the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade on Australian state practice in international law. The Year Book has in recent years also included dedicated Agora collections which provide commentary on significant developments on international law and Australia. Agoras have been published on the Australia-Timor Leste Timor Sea Conciliation, the Whaling Case in the International Court of Justice, the South China Sea Arbitration, and the Plain Paper Packaging litigation that arose in various forums.
Donald R. Rothwell is Professor of International Law at ANU College of Law, ANU, Australia; Co-Editor and General Editor, Australian Year Book of International Law (2007–2019).
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For a list of Editors, see Table 7.1.
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O’Connell 1966.
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The author was the co-editor of the 3rd edition of International Law in Australia: Rothwell and Crawford 2017.
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See e.g. Devereux 2005.
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Sydney Law Review, Australian Law Journal, Melbourne University Law Review, Adelaide Law Review.
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Since renamed the Australian International Law Journal.
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Starke 1966.
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Spender 1966.
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Cowan 1966, at 23–35.
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From 1977–1982.
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Starke 1966, 159–168.
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Upon Greig’s retirement from the Australian National University, two volumes of the AYBIL appeared as part of a festschrift; see Charlesworth and McCorquodale 1999, i–ii; Higgins 1999, iii–v and the contributions that appear in his honour in (1999) 20 Australian Year Book of International Law 1–339 and (2001) 21 Australian Year Book of International Law 1–158.
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The Kirby lectures as published have been delivered by James Crawford (2008), Hilary Charlesworth (2009), Gareth Evans (2010), Louise Arbour (2011), Gillian Triggs (2013), Andrew Byrnes (2014), Gerry Simpson (2015), Justin Gleeson (2016), Bill Campbell (2017), Melissa Perry (2018), and Sir Ken Keith (2019); the Lauterpacht lectures as published have been delivered by James Crawford, (2017), Tim McCormack (2018), and Anne Orford (2019).
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See (1996) 17 Australian Year Book of International Law 1–86 containing papers delivered in Canberra to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the International Court of Justice.
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Rothwell and Rubenstein 2008 and the papers that follow in (2008) 27 Australian Year Book of International Law 11–192.
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Whaling in the Antarctic (Australia v Japan; New Zealand intervening) [2014] ICJ Rep 226.
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In the Matter of an Arbitration before An Arbitral Tribunal Constituted Under Annex VII to the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea between The Republic of the Philippines and the People’s Republic of China, PCA Case no 2013–19, Award on Jurisdiction and Admissibility of 29 October 2015; In the Matter of an Arbitration before An Arbitral Tribunal Constituted Under Annex VII to the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea between The Republic of the Philippines and the People’s Republic of China, PCA Case no 2013–19, Award of 12 July 2016.
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In the Matter of the Maritime Boundary between Timor-Leste and Australia before a Conciliation Commission constituted under Annex V of the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea between the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste and the Commonwealth of Australia, PCA Case no 2016–10, Report and Recommendations of the Compulsory Conciliation Commission between Timor-Leste and Australia on the Timor Sea of 9 May 2018; and 2018 Treaty Between Australia and The Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste Establishing their Maritime Boundaries in the Timor Sea, OS - 6 March 2018, [2019] ATS 16.
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Greig 1978, at vii; Erika Feller was the relevant Australian government officer responsible for preparing that initial collection of Australian practice in international law and her reflections on that process can be found in an interview at National Library of Australia, “Erika Feller interviewed by Kim Rubenstein in the Trailblazing women and the law oral history project” (November 2013) at https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/6387436.
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Hathaway 2008, at ii.
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Brandis 2017.
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Volume 1 comprised a modest 170 pages.
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The assistance of the Editors, Dr Imogen Saunders and Dr Esmé Shirlow, and the Assistant Editor, Ms Helen Whalan, in the preparation of this contribution is acknowledged. Comments from former Editors, Associate Professor Sarah Heathcote and Professor Kim Rubenstein are also acknowledged.
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Rothwell, D.R. (2021). Australian Year Book of International Law. In: Spijkers, O., Werner, W.G., Wessel, R.A. (eds) Netherlands Yearbook of International Law 2019. Netherlands Yearbook of International Law, vol 50. T.M.C. Asser Press, The Hague. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6265-403-7_7
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