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| The Law Quarterly Review | |
|---|---|
| Title | The Law Quarterly Review |
| Discipline | Law |
| Abbreviation | LQR |
| Publisher | Sweet & Maxwell |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Frequency | Quarterly |
| History | 1885–present |
| Issn | 0023-933X |
The Law Quarterly Review is a leading English-language legal periodical founded in 1885 that publishes scholarly articles, case notes, and book reviews. It has served as a forum for analysis of House of Lords decisions, discussions of Judicature Acts, commentary on Companies Act developments, and comparative studies involving courts such as the Supreme Court, the European Court of Human Rights, and the International Court of Justice.
The journal was established in 1885 by academics and practitioners active at University of Oxford, University of Cambridge, and the Inner Temple with early editors drawn from circles around Lord Halsbury, Sir Frederick Pollock, and Sir Henry Maine. Its nineteenth-century pages covered controversies connected to the Judicature Acts 1873–1875, disputes arising from the Factory Acts, and debates related to the Irish Land Acts, while later twentieth-century issues treated jurisprudential shifts after World War I, the influence of Lord Atkin in negligence law, and post-1945 reforms following the Treaty of Rome. During the interwar period contributors commented on decisions from the Privy Council and developments in colonial legal systems under the British Empire, and in the late twentieth century the journal addressed the effects of membership in the European Economic Community and rulings of the European Court of Justice.
Editorial stewardship has passed through editors affiliated with King's College London, University College London, London School of Economics, and the University of Edinburgh, and the publisher changed hands among firms including Sweet & Maxwell and others connected to the Law Society of England and Wales. The Review is issued quarterly and features peer-reviewed articles, case notes, and book reviews with editorial boards drawing on scholars from Harvard Law School, Yale Law School, University of Cambridge Faculty of Law, University of Oxford Faculty of Law, and practitioners from the Bar Council and members of the Inns of Court. Its distribution networks have reached law libraries at institutions such as the British Library, the Library of Congress, and university libraries at Columbia University, University of Toronto, and University of Melbourne.
The Review’s scope encompasses common law and comparative law topics including contract disputes exemplified by cases cited from the House of Lords, tort law issues illustrated by judgments involving judges like Lord Denning, property law debates tied to statutes such as the Land Registration Act 1925, company law controversies in the shadow of the Companies Act 1985, and public law debates influenced by rulings from the European Court of Human Rights. Its influence extends to judicial reasoning in appellate courts including the Court of Appeal (England and Wales), the Privy Council, and to scholarly debates hosted at conferences by organizations such as the British Institute of International and Comparative Law and the American Society of International Law.
Contributors have included commentators and jurists such as Sir Frederick Pollock, H. L. A. Hart, Roscoe Pound, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., F. W. Maitland, A. V. Dicey, Lord Atkin, and modern scholars from Harvard Law School and Yale Law School. Seminal articles addressed doctrine such as negligence in pieces responding to judgments in Donoghue v Stevenson contexts, contract formation debates tied to Carlill v Carbolic Smoke Ball Company style disputes, and constitutional analyses influenced by R (Miller) v Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union. The Review also published influential book reviews of works by authors linked to H. L. A. Hart and commentary on treatises like those of John Austin and Jeremy Bentham.
The journal has been praised by figures associated with Oxford University Press and the British Academy for rigorous scholarship and criticized by some commentators connected to Critical Legal Studies and proponents of Law and Literature for perceived conservatism and doctrinal emphasis. Debates in its pages and in responses from scholars at Cambridge University Press and the Modern Law Review have examined editorial choices and the balance between doctrinal analysis and interdisciplinary approaches promoted by voices from Stanford Law School and New York University School of Law.
Citation counts in indexes maintained by institutions like Web of Science, Scopus, and the HeinOnline archive show the Review among leading UK law journals by citation, and its articles are frequently cited in judgments of the House of Lords and in textbooks published by Oxford University Press and Cambridge University Press. Impact assessments by university law faculties, including those at University of Cambridge, University of Oxford, and London School of Economics, regularly list the Review in journal rankings used for research assessment exercises such as the Research Excellence Framework.
Category:Legal journals