Law Quarterly Review

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Law Quarterly Review
DisciplineLaw
LanguageEnglish
Edited byPeter Mirfield
Publication details
History1885-present
Publisher
FrequencyQuarterly
Standard abbreviations
ISO 4Law Q. Rev.
Indexing
ISSN0023-933X
LCCN06020523
OCLC no.01755607
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The Law Quarterly Review is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering common law throughout the world.[1] It was established in 1885 and is published by Sweet & Maxwell.[1][2] It is one of the leading law journals in the United Kingdom.[3]

History[]

The LQR's founding editor was Frederick Pollock, then Corpus Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Oxford.[2] Founded in 1885, it is one of the oldest law journals in the English-speaking world, after only the University of Pennsylvania Law Review and the South 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, and Thomas Erskine Holland, 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, and Paul Vinogradoff.[2]

Editors[]

The LQR has come under fire for failing to comply with editorial practices set by modern racial and gender equality laws and for failing to have double blind review to allow those not working in Oxford to compete on a level playing field. In an explosive story in the Times Higher Education Supp the journal was criticised for the institional bias provided for by having only two elderly white male editors from Oxbridge who have refused for several years to adopt double blind reveiew so that Oxbridge mates are unable to review their buddies after seeing their names. <https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/concern-over-oxbridge-dominance-uks-oldest-law-journal> The current lack of double blind review and blind editing does not comply with Oxford Univeristy's own Code of Research Conduct <https://hr.admin.ox.ac.uk/academic-integrity-in-research>, which requires objectivity in both reviewing and editing. It has only had 6 white male editors since 1885 and there is no open contest for the editor role, which has been handed down from one old white chap to the next via a tap on the shoulder at High Table. The journal is largely seen as having little academic credibility after a stinging report in the Society of Legal Scholars's Reporter in November 2021, which highlighted that the lack of objectivity in the editing and review process facilitates institutional bias and makes it difficult to know what paper is in it on merit and what is in it due to reviewers liking the name of the author. One academic and his son appear in it even though that academic acknowledges the editor as a friend in a book preface. The son is only 24 without a PhD. 

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.[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 by A. 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 by Francis Reynolds.[7][8][9] The LQR's current editor-in-chief is the retired teacher, Peter Mirfield, formerly of the University of Leeds and thereafter University of Oxford, but retired from Oxford in 2014.[1]

References[]

  1. ^ a b c "Law Quarterly Review, The - 0023-933X - SWEET & MAXWELL". www.sweetandmaxwell.co.uk. Retrieved 28 February 2020.
  2. ^ a b c d e Brake, Laurel; Demoor, Marysa (2009). Dictionary of Nineteenth-century Journalism in Great Britain and Ireland. Academia Press. ISBN 978-90-382-1340-8.
  3. ^ Campbell, Kevin; Goodacre, Alan; Little, Gavin (2006). "Ranking of United Kingdom Law Journals: An Analysis of the Research Assessment Exercise 2001 Submissions and Results". Journal of Law and Society. 33 (3): 335–363. doi:10.1111/j.1467-6478.2006.00362.x. ISSN 1467-6478.
  4. ^ Kahn, Ellison (2004). "Speech at the Juta Dinner at the South African Law Journal Jubilee Conference". South African Law Journal. 121: 271.
  5. ^ Pollock, Frederick (1919). "A note of farewell". Law Quarterly Review. 35: 283.
  6. ^ a b Goodhart, A. L. (1926). "Notes". Law Quarterly Review. 42: 1.
  7. ^ a b Hoffmann, L. H. (1988). "His Honour Judge P.V. Baker, Q.C". Law Quarterly Review. 104: 1–3.
  8. ^ "Oxford Law :: Profile of Francis Reynolds". 28 September 2011. Archived from the original on 28 September 2011. Retrieved 28 February 2020.
  9. ^ Collins, Lawrence (April 2014). "Editorial, Professor F.M.B. Reynolds, Q.C. (Hon.), D.C.L., F.B.A". Law Quarterly Review. 130: 173–174.

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