| Discipline | Law |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Edited by | Peter Mirfield |
| Publication details | |
| History | 1885–present |
| Publisher | |
| Frequency | Quarterly |
| Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt  ) | |
| ISO 4 | Law Q. Rev. |
| Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus · W&L | |
| ISSN | 0023-933X |
| LCCN | 06020523 |
| OCLC no. | 01755607 |
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TheLaw Quarterly Review is apeer-reviewedacademic journal coveringcommon law throughout the world.[1] It was established in 1885 and is published bySweet & Maxwell.[1][2] It is one of the leadinglaw journals in theUnited Kingdom.[3]
TheLQR's founding editor wasFrederick Pollock, thenCorpus Professor of Jurisprudence at theUniversity of Oxford.[2] Founded in 1885, it is one of the oldest law journals in the English-speaking world, after only theUniversity of Pennsylvania Law Review and theSouth African Law Journal.[4] The editors' intention was that the journal would help to establish law as a worthy field of academic study.[2] In this purpose it has "triumphed".[2] In the first volume alone its contributors included, in addition to Pollock himself,Sir William Anson,Albert Venn Dicey, andThomas Erskine Holland, each of whom had assisted in the founding of the journal, as well asOliver Wendell Holmes,F. W. Maitland,T. E. Scrutton (laterLord Justice),James Fitzjames Stephen, andPaul Vinogradoff.[2]
Pollock edited theLQR for its first 35 years (1885–1919). He was succeeded by A. E. Randall, then editor ofLeake's Law of Contracts.[5] When Randall died suddenly in April 1925, Pollock returned to edit the final two issues of that year.[6] From 1926 the editorship was taken over byA. L. Goodhart, who stayed in that position for almost half a century.[6][7] In 1971 Paul Baker succeeded to the editorship and in 1987 he was replaced byFrancis Reynolds.[7][8][9] He was replaced by Peter Mirfield (University of Oxford)[1] until 2025, when Professor Evan MckendrickKC (3 Verulam Buildings) took over as editor.[10]
