ALLA (WA) News Blog

The Alternative Law Journal has published a piece by Anita Mackay and Lola Akin Ojelabi that may be of interest to our academic law librarian members.  The piece "A beginner's guide to academic integrity and legal referenceing using the AGLC" is a welcome addition to the literature.  The abstract states:  This article is for beginning law students (both undergraduate and graduate). It aims to provide them with an accessible guide to academic integrity requirements (including the implications of academic misconduct for admission to legal practice), legal referencing and the Australian Guide to Legal Citation (AGLC) rules they encounter early in their studies. You can access the journal article via Sage . The AGLC is in its 4th edition and is available from the University of Melbourne website . 

The release of the 4th edition of the  Australian Guide to Legal Citation (AGLC4) has been delayed till July 2018. For those not aware, AGLC is published by the Melbourne Law School (MLS) as a collaboration between the Melbourne University Law Review (MULR) and the Melbourne Journal of International Law (MJIL). After meeting with the current and future editors of the both publications, the AGLC4 committee have postponed the final release date of AGCL4 to 1 July 2018.  This extended deadline is to allow for adequate time to complete the proofreading and formatting work still remaining. The AGCL4 committee believes that the intended release date of Semester 1, 2018 would have compromised on the quality of AGLC4. The AGLC4 Committee believes that a mid-year release will also allow for a six-month transition period from July to December 2018 for AGLC3 to be phased out. During this transition period, libraries will be able to train their staff in AGLC4 before the start of the...