25 Years of the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies
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Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, Vol. 25, No. 1 (2005), pp. 1 doi:10.1093/ojls/gqi001 EDITORIAL 25 Years of the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 25 years may not seem a very long existence, especially when set against the 120 years of our sibling publication, the Law Quarterly Review. But it is a sufficient milestone to warrant some recognition. In these 25 years, this journal has become established as a major journal in the international world of legal scholarship. It has maintained and developed its aspiration to âencourage interest in all matters relating to law, with an emphasis on matters of theoryâ (as the unchanged statement inside the front cover has it). It has tried to be true to its claim that âno topic of legal interest is excluded from considerationâ. Some things have changed, however. Earlier issues featured shorter articles and comments on recent developments. As its founding editor, Patrick Atiyah, stated in his Foreword, the intention was to give prominence to recent developments in the Commonwealth. This took the form of a Notes section. The Notes disappeared during 1987, but it was still quite common to have shorter articles after the longer ones. Nowadays, the nature of legal