In 1957, the Melbourne Law School's scholarly journal, Res Judicatae, was renamed the Melbourne University Law Review. Management passed from a Law Students' Society committee to the Melbourne University Law Review Association. Dean Zelman Cowen modelled the Review on the Harvard Law Review, which had been run by law students since it commenced publication in 1887. The Melbourne University Law Review has remained entirely student-run since its establishment.
In later years, the Review underwent some significant changes. The Review was typeset outside the Law School until 1994, when it was produced in-house for the first time. From 1998, the number of editions published each year was increased from two to three. The Melbourne University Law Review Association in 1998 published the Australian Guide to Legal Citation, which provides Australia with a uniform system of legal citation, akin to the Bluebook in the United States and the Canadian Guide to Legal Citation. The second edition of the Australian Guide to Legal Citation was published in 2002.
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