Studies have found that it is one of the most cited Australian law journals.

[citation needed] A 2002 study found that while on the Federal Court of Australia and the High Court of Australia judges published academic articles most often in the Australian Law Journal in both decades studied, the 1980s and 1990s.

[1] The first editor "set out to create in the ALJ, a Journal somewhere between the learned reviews and the practical magazines of the English legal profession.

"[2] Past editors have included Bernard Sugerman (1927–1946), Rae Else-Mitchell (1946–1958), Russell Walter Fox (1958–1967), Nigel Bowen (1958–1961), Philip Jeffrey (1968–1973),[a] Professor J. G. Starke QC (1974–1992),[b] and Peter Young AO (1992–2016).

The Australian Business Deans Council has given this journal a quality rating of "A".