If you’re managing a law journal’s “back issues” Web site, do not list the archives by issue number, e.g., “Volume 56, Number 2 – November 2009” (with a link to the issue). People who are using your site to get an article won’t know what issue it’s from. They’ll either have the volume and starting page number, or they’ll have just the author or title.
So either (1) have the issues listed by volume and starting and ending page number (e.g., “Volume 56, Pages 317-622”) or (2) have a master list of all the articles for the several years that you have online, so that people can just search for the author or the title. But don’t have the links be organized around the one item — the issue number — that none of your users will know.