The ''Law Quarterly Review'' is a
peer-reviewed
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academic journal
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covering
common law
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throughout the world.
It was established in 1885 and is published by
Sweet & Maxwell
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.
It is one of the leading
law journals
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in the
United Kingdom
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.
History
The ''LQR''s founding editor was
Frederick Pollock, then
Corpus Professor of Jurisprudence
The position of Professor of Jurisprudence (originally the Corpus Professor of Jurisprudence) at the University of Oxford, England, was created in 1869.
The holders of the position have been:
* Sir Henry Maine 1869–77
* Sir Frederick Pollock 1 ...
at the
University of Oxford
, mottoeng = The Lord is my light
, established =
, endowment = £6.1 billion (including colleges) (2019)
, budget = £2.145 billion (2019–20)
, chancellor ...
.
Founded in 1885, it is one of the oldest law journals in the English-speaking world, after only the ''
University of Pennsylvania Law Review
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'' and the ''
South African Law Journal
The ''South African Law Journal'' is a quarterly law journal published by Juta & Co. It is South Africa's leading law journal and the second oldest law journal in the world, after the ''University of Pennsylvania Law Review''.
History
The ''SA ...
''.
The editors' intention was that the journal would help to establish law as a worthy field of academic study.
In this purpose it has "triumphed".
In the first volume alone its contributors included, in addition to Pollock himself,
Sir William Anson,
Albert Venn Dicey, and
Thomas Erskine Holland
Sir Thomas Erskine Holland KC, FBA (17 July 183524 May 1926) was a British jurist.
After school at Brighton College and studies at Oxford, he practiced law as a barrister from 1863 onwards. In 1874, he returned to Oxford, succeeding William B ...
, each of whom had assisted in the founding of the journal, as well as
Oliver Wendell Holmes,
F. W. Maitland,
T. E. Scrutton (later
Lord Justice),
James Fitzjames Stephen
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, and
Paul Vinogradoff
Sir Paul Gavrilovitch Vinogradoff (russian: Па́вел Гаври́лович Виногра́дов, transliterated: ''Pavel Gavrilovich Vinogradov''; 18 November 1854 Adoption of the Gregorian calendar#Adoption in Eastern Europe, (O.S.)19 D ...
.
Editors
Pollock edited the ''LQR'' for its first 35 years (1885-1919). He was succeeded by A. E. Randall, then editor of ''Leake's Law of Contracts''. When Randall died suddenly in April 1925, Pollock returned to edit the final two issues of that year.
From 1926 the editorship was taken over by
A. L. Goodhart, who stayed in that position for almost half a century.
In 1971 Paul Baker succeeded to the editorship and in 1987 he was replaced by
Francis Reynolds.
The ''LQR''
's current
editor-in-chief
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The highest-ranking editor of a publication may also be titled editor, managing ...
is Peter Mirfield (
University of Oxford
, mottoeng = The Lord is my light
, established =
, endowment = £6.1 billion (including colleges) (2019)
, budget = £2.145 billion (2019–20)
, chancellor ...
).
References
External links
*
Thomson Reuters
British law journals
General law journals
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English-language journals
Publications established in 1885
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