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11 Oxford U. Commw. L.J. iii (2011)

handle is hein.journals/oxuclwj11 and id is 1 raw text is: Oxford Universit'y Commonwtealth Law joutal FOREWORD: A NEW DECADE As it embarks on its second decade with this issue, the Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal has vindicated the determination of the Oxford graduate students who created it, and who have worked to make it excellent. The success of this project, and its further potential, reflect the diversity and expertise of the students themselves. And the Journal reflects the importance of the field in the University. For a crude yet interesting measure of the success of the project, consider the names of countries that have appeared in titles of articles in the Journal: India, South Africa, Fiji, Hong Kong, Botswana, Australia, Canada, Jamaica, Scotland, Kenya, Malaysia, Zimbabwe, Singapore, Ghana, New Zealand, the Solomon Islands, Nigeria, England, Trinidad and Tobago, Malawi, Zambia, and the United States. This measure is crude because many articles address the laws of other Commonwealth states. And while many of the articles are works of comparative law, others (as you will see from this issue) bring the study of the law of one country to a wide audience, or focus on theoretical issues that are of concern alike to Commonwealth and to other legal systems. In this div erse body of scholarship, we can discern various strands: contributions to private and public law, to the law relating to indigenous peoples, to the study of legal system and the structural doctrines of the common law, and to the advocacy of reforms. The one uniting feature is the way in which the content of the Journal reflects the gifts of Oxford students. In the ten years of the Journal, the community of research students in Law in Oxford has grown, and they have become more div erse. There are more students from non-Commonwealth countries today than there were in 2001; their participation, working together with students from around the Commonwealth, has been good for the Journal. Here too, there is a link to the content of theJournal, because the articles increasingly reflect the ways in which the laws of the Commonwealth jurisdictions are intertwined with the laws of other countries, and with European and international law. Those increasing connections with other laws do not at all diminish the importance of the unique focus of thisJournal. It is strategically important for us in the Unixversity to build up the role of the Law Faculty both as a centre for scholarship in the laws of the Commonwealth, and as a centre for the training of legal practitioners and of legal academics for Commonwealth countries. This purpose, and the Journal, are important to us not only because of the shared legal heritage of the Commonwealth countries. On the contrary, they are important because of the potential for the future-our potential as citizens of Commonwealth countries both to learn from each other, and to show the world that it is possible for people of very different countries to understand each other. iii SUMMER 20I I1

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