[3] The LQR's founding editor was Frederick Pollock, then Corpus Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Oxford.

[4] The editors' intention was that the journal would help to establish law as a worthy field of academic study.

[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.

[5] When Randall died suddenly in April 1925, Pollock returned to edit the final two issues of that year.

[6][7] In 1971 Paul Baker succeeded to the editorship and in 1987 he was replaced by Francis Reynolds.