The ''Law Quarterly Review'' is a

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covering

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throughout the world. It was established in 1885 and is published by

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. It is one of the leading

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in the

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History

The ''LQR''s founding editor was Frederick Pollock, then

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at the

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. Founded in 1885, it is one of the oldest law journals in the English-speaking world, after only the ''

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'' and the ''

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''. 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,

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, 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),

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, and

Paul Vinogradoff Sir Paul Gavrilovitch Vinogradoff (russian: Па́вел Гаври́лович Виногра́дов, transliterated: ''Pavel Gavrilovich Vinogradov''; 18 November 1854 (O.S.)19 December 1925) was a Russian and British historian and medieval ...

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

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is Peter Mirfield (

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References

External links

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