1. Professor of Comparative Law, University of Oxford. This paper is based on “‘… to take up the ground hitherto unoccupied in the periodical literature’ – Die ersten juristischen Fachzeitschriften Englands im 19. Jahrhundert”, in M Stolleis and T Simon (eds), Juristische Zeitschriften in Europa (2006) 533. I am grateful to the editors for permission to publish this revised version here, and to Peter Webster for his preliminary translation. Alexandra Braun provided knowledgeable assistance in the use of...