Dr Lorren Eldridge
@loreldridge.bsky.social
Assistant Prof in Private Law, Cambridge. Founding member Selden's Sister. Land law, medieval law, historical jurisprudence. AFHEA. She/her. Personal account.
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Selden’s Sister presents: the book launch of Celebrating Women in Legal History
4 March 2026
5pm
Old Hall
Queens’ College
Cambridge
4 March 2026
5pm
Old Hall
Queens’ College
Cambridge
It's publication day!
You can now buy Celebrating Women in Legal History here: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/celebrati...
You can now buy Celebrating Women in Legal History here: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/celebrati...
February 5, 2026 at 10:32 AM
It's publication day!
You can now buy Celebrating Women in Legal History here: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/celebrati...
You can now buy Celebrating Women in Legal History here: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/celebrati...
Reposted by Dr Lorren Eldridge
Selden’s Sister presents: the book launch of Celebrating Women in Legal History
4 March 2026
5pm
Old Hall
Queens’ College
Cambridge
4 March 2026
5pm
Old Hall
Queens’ College
Cambridge
January 20, 2026 at 11:25 AM
Selden’s Sister presents: the book launch of Celebrating Women in Legal History
4 March 2026
5pm
Old Hall
Queens’ College
Cambridge
4 March 2026
5pm
Old Hall
Queens’ College
Cambridge
Selden’s Sister presents: the book launch of Celebrating Women in Legal History
4 March 2026
5pm
Old Hall
Queens’ College
Cambridge
4 March 2026
5pm
Old Hall
Queens’ College
Cambridge
January 20, 2026 at 11:25 AM
Selden’s Sister presents: the book launch of Celebrating Women in Legal History
4 March 2026
5pm
Old Hall
Queens’ College
Cambridge
4 March 2026
5pm
Old Hall
Queens’ College
Cambridge
Reposted by Dr Lorren Eldridge
Did you know that women were involved in the peace process at Versailles? Or that you can co-author a book with someone who you've never met, long after their death? Or that one of England's first woman barristers wrote a feminist legal history book? All this and much more in this collection.
January 16, 2026 at 3:47 PM
Did you know that women were involved in the peace process at Versailles? Or that you can co-author a book with someone who you've never met, long after their death? Or that one of England's first woman barristers wrote a feminist legal history book? All this and much more in this collection.
This book is really exciting and I'm so glad to also have received my hard copies today from Hart Publishing.
There will be a launch event on 4 March 2026, 5pm, at Queens' College Cambridge. I'll be sharing details soon!
There will be a launch event on 4 March 2026, 5pm, at Queens' College Cambridge. I'll be sharing details soon!
It's published! Histories of women legal historians, edited with @loreldridge.bsky.social and @dremilyireland.bsky.social
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/celebrati...
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/celebrati...
January 16, 2026 at 3:47 PM
This book is really exciting and I'm so glad to also have received my hard copies today from Hart Publishing.
There will be a launch event on 4 March 2026, 5pm, at Queens' College Cambridge. I'll be sharing details soon!
There will be a launch event on 4 March 2026, 5pm, at Queens' College Cambridge. I'll be sharing details soon!
Reposted by Dr Lorren Eldridge
This is now out as Lorren Eldridge, 'Section 53(1)(b) and the Rest is History' [2025] Conv 363 - full text on Westlaw.
Proofs proofs proofs proofs! Produced at high speed to get in there between the Court of Appeal judgment and the UKSC hearing in NIOC v Crescent Gas, my article on the drafting history of s53(1)(b) of the LPA 1925 will be out in the Conveyancer shortly.
December 9, 2025 at 1:22 PM
This is now out as Lorren Eldridge, 'Section 53(1)(b) and the Rest is History' [2025] Conv 363 - full text on Westlaw.
This is now out as Lorren Eldridge, 'Section 53(1)(b) and the Rest is History' [2025] Conv 363 - full text on Westlaw.
Proofs proofs proofs proofs! Produced at high speed to get in there between the Court of Appeal judgment and the UKSC hearing in NIOC v Crescent Gas, my article on the drafting history of s53(1)(b) of the LPA 1925 will be out in the Conveyancer shortly.
December 9, 2025 at 1:22 PM
This is now out as Lorren Eldridge, 'Section 53(1)(b) and the Rest is History' [2025] Conv 363 - full text on Westlaw.
Reposted by Dr Lorren Eldridge
📚 It's that regular call for persons interested in writing for the Conveyancer Book Reviews section 📚
This time, particularly reviewers interested in construction; and trusts.
Reviews for Conv are short, and we publish 4 times a with fairly flexible deadlines (within reason).
This time, particularly reviewers interested in construction; and trusts.
Reviews for Conv are short, and we publish 4 times a with fairly flexible deadlines (within reason).
December 3, 2025 at 11:31 AM
📚 It's that regular call for persons interested in writing for the Conveyancer Book Reviews section 📚
This time, particularly reviewers interested in construction; and trusts.
Reviews for Conv are short, and we publish 4 times a with fairly flexible deadlines (within reason).
This time, particularly reviewers interested in construction; and trusts.
Reviews for Conv are short, and we publish 4 times a with fairly flexible deadlines (within reason).
📚 It's that regular call for persons interested in writing for the Conveyancer Book Reviews section 📚
This time, particularly reviewers interested in construction; and trusts.
Reviews for Conv are short, and we publish 4 times a with fairly flexible deadlines (within reason).
This time, particularly reviewers interested in construction; and trusts.
Reviews for Conv are short, and we publish 4 times a with fairly flexible deadlines (within reason).
December 3, 2025 at 11:31 AM
📚 It's that regular call for persons interested in writing for the Conveyancer Book Reviews section 📚
This time, particularly reviewers interested in construction; and trusts.
Reviews for Conv are short, and we publish 4 times a with fairly flexible deadlines (within reason).
This time, particularly reviewers interested in construction; and trusts.
Reviews for Conv are short, and we publish 4 times a with fairly flexible deadlines (within reason).
Proofs proofs proofs proofs! Produced at high speed to get in there between the Court of Appeal judgment and the UKSC hearing in NIOC v Crescent Gas, my article on the drafting history of s53(1)(b) of the LPA 1925 will be out in the Conveyancer shortly.
November 22, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Proofs proofs proofs proofs! Produced at high speed to get in there between the Court of Appeal judgment and the UKSC hearing in NIOC v Crescent Gas, my article on the drafting history of s53(1)(b) of the LPA 1925 will be out in the Conveyancer shortly.
Pleased to have the hard copy of 'Epidemics and the Law from Plague to Present' - I'm "plague"! My first publication on contract law, and involves some old school doctrinal #legalhistory, statutory interpretation (what can I say: I like what I like), and a little modern law twist in the middle.
October 22, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Pleased to have the hard copy of 'Epidemics and the Law from Plague to Present' - I'm "plague"! My first publication on contract law, and involves some old school doctrinal #legalhistory, statutory interpretation (what can I say: I like what I like), and a little modern law twist in the middle.
Deadline extended to 1 Nov.
Please share with UGs interested in #legalhistory or #womeninlaw. Don't have to be studying legal history, topic is open.
Chance to connect with Selden's Sister, who also run PG mentoring scheme.
£100 in Hart Publishing vouches up for grabs!
Please share with UGs interested in #legalhistory or #womeninlaw. Don't have to be studying legal history, topic is open.
Chance to connect with Selden's Sister, who also run PG mentoring scheme.
£100 in Hart Publishing vouches up for grabs!
Selden's Sister has launched an essay competition for undergraduates interested in legal history.
£100 @hartpublishing.bsky.social vouchers up for grabs, as well as an invitation to receive your prize at our annual lecture - this year at the University of Nottingham. #legalhistory
£100 @hartpublishing.bsky.social vouchers up for grabs, as well as an invitation to receive your prize at our annual lecture - this year at the University of Nottingham. #legalhistory
October 20, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Deadline extended to 1 Nov.
Please share with UGs interested in #legalhistory or #womeninlaw. Don't have to be studying legal history, topic is open.
Chance to connect with Selden's Sister, who also run PG mentoring scheme.
£100 in Hart Publishing vouches up for grabs!
Please share with UGs interested in #legalhistory or #womeninlaw. Don't have to be studying legal history, topic is open.
Chance to connect with Selden's Sister, who also run PG mentoring scheme.
£100 in Hart Publishing vouches up for grabs!
Final preparations for the 1925 conference underway, and getting excited to welcome fantastic speakers and attendees to Cambridge on Monday.
I also intend to spend the weekend sleeping: what idiot* decided to move house, host conference, and get married in the same month?
*It's me, I'm the idiot.
I also intend to spend the weekend sleeping: what idiot* decided to move house, host conference, and get married in the same month?
*It's me, I'm the idiot.
September 4, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Final preparations for the 1925 conference underway, and getting excited to welcome fantastic speakers and attendees to Cambridge on Monday.
I also intend to spend the weekend sleeping: what idiot* decided to move house, host conference, and get married in the same month?
*It's me, I'm the idiot.
I also intend to spend the weekend sleeping: what idiot* decided to move house, host conference, and get married in the same month?
*It's me, I'm the idiot.
Reposted by Dr Lorren Eldridge
Selden's Sister has launched an essay competition for undergraduates interested in legal history.
£100 @hartpublishing.bsky.social vouchers up for grabs, as well as an invitation to receive your prize at our annual lecture - this year at the University of Nottingham. #legalhistory
£100 @hartpublishing.bsky.social vouchers up for grabs, as well as an invitation to receive your prize at our annual lecture - this year at the University of Nottingham. #legalhistory
August 2, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Selden's Sister has launched an essay competition for undergraduates interested in legal history.
£100 @hartpublishing.bsky.social vouchers up for grabs, as well as an invitation to receive your prize at our annual lecture - this year at the University of Nottingham. #legalhistory
£100 @hartpublishing.bsky.social vouchers up for grabs, as well as an invitation to receive your prize at our annual lecture - this year at the University of Nottingham. #legalhistory
Reposted by Dr Lorren Eldridge
We still have funding available for travel and accom for PG students attending this conference. Includes those just finished (2024/5) or are about to start (2025/6) a course of study, and Bar course as well as uni.
Get in touch ASAP via email if you would like to apply.
Get in touch ASAP via email if you would like to apply.
Registration is now open to attend the conference Celebrating 100 Years of the 1925 Property Legislation at Selwyn College, Cambridge on 8-9 September 2025.
The draft programme and booking link may be found on the conference webpage: www.landecon.cam.ac.uk/news/2025-co...
The draft programme and booking link may be found on the conference webpage: www.landecon.cam.ac.uk/news/2025-co...
2025 Conference: Celebrating 100 Years of the 1925 Property Legislation
www.landecon.cam.ac.uk
August 10, 2025 at 9:42 AM
We still have funding available for travel and accom for PG students attending this conference. Includes those just finished (2024/5) or are about to start (2025/6) a course of study, and Bar course as well as uni.
Get in touch ASAP via email if you would like to apply.
Get in touch ASAP via email if you would like to apply.
We still have funding available for travel and accom for PG students attending this conference. Includes those just finished (2024/5) or are about to start (2025/6) a course of study, and Bar course as well as uni.
Get in touch ASAP via email if you would like to apply.
Get in touch ASAP via email if you would like to apply.
Registration is now open to attend the conference Celebrating 100 Years of the 1925 Property Legislation at Selwyn College, Cambridge on 8-9 September 2025.
The draft programme and booking link may be found on the conference webpage: www.landecon.cam.ac.uk/news/2025-co...
The draft programme and booking link may be found on the conference webpage: www.landecon.cam.ac.uk/news/2025-co...
2025 Conference: Celebrating 100 Years of the 1925 Property Legislation
www.landecon.cam.ac.uk
August 10, 2025 at 9:42 AM
We still have funding available for travel and accom for PG students attending this conference. Includes those just finished (2024/5) or are about to start (2025/6) a course of study, and Bar course as well as uni.
Get in touch ASAP via email if you would like to apply.
Get in touch ASAP via email if you would like to apply.
Selden's Sister has launched an essay competition for undergraduates interested in legal history.
£100 @hartpublishing.bsky.social vouchers up for grabs, as well as an invitation to receive your prize at our annual lecture - this year at the University of Nottingham. #legalhistory
£100 @hartpublishing.bsky.social vouchers up for grabs, as well as an invitation to receive your prize at our annual lecture - this year at the University of Nottingham. #legalhistory
August 2, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Selden's Sister has launched an essay competition for undergraduates interested in legal history.
£100 @hartpublishing.bsky.social vouchers up for grabs, as well as an invitation to receive your prize at our annual lecture - this year at the University of Nottingham. #legalhistory
£100 @hartpublishing.bsky.social vouchers up for grabs, as well as an invitation to receive your prize at our annual lecture - this year at the University of Nottingham. #legalhistory
Have you registered, yet? A reminder to register for the 1925 centenary conference in Cambridge in September before you go on your summer holidays!
Registration is now open to attend the conference Celebrating 100 Years of the 1925 Property Legislation at Selwyn College, Cambridge on 8-9 September 2025.
The draft programme and booking link may be found on the conference webpage: www.landecon.cam.ac.uk/news/2025-co...
The draft programme and booking link may be found on the conference webpage: www.landecon.cam.ac.uk/news/2025-co...
2025 Conference: Celebrating 100 Years of the 1925 Property Legislation
www.landecon.cam.ac.uk
July 17, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Have you registered, yet? A reminder to register for the 1925 centenary conference in Cambridge in September before you go on your summer holidays!
Registration is now open to attend the conference Celebrating 100 Years of the 1925 Property Legislation at Selwyn College, Cambridge on 8-9 September 2025.
The draft programme and booking link may be found on the conference webpage: www.landecon.cam.ac.uk/news/2025-co...
The draft programme and booking link may be found on the conference webpage: www.landecon.cam.ac.uk/news/2025-co...
2025 Conference: Celebrating 100 Years of the 1925 Property Legislation
www.landecon.cam.ac.uk
May 29, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Registration is now open to attend the conference Celebrating 100 Years of the 1925 Property Legislation at Selwyn College, Cambridge on 8-9 September 2025.
The draft programme and booking link may be found on the conference webpage: www.landecon.cam.ac.uk/news/2025-co...
The draft programme and booking link may be found on the conference webpage: www.landecon.cam.ac.uk/news/2025-co...
Wrapping up UG teaching for my 1st Cambridge year today, and what an insanely busy one. Teaching across 3 UG papers, LLM students, and PhD projects. Queens' has felt like home fast, and next year looks great: September kicks off with the 1925 Property Conference (and our wedding at Queens'!).
May 23, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Wrapping up UG teaching for my 1st Cambridge year today, and what an insanely busy one. Teaching across 3 UG papers, LLM students, and PhD projects. Queens' has felt like home fast, and next year looks great: September kicks off with the 1925 Property Conference (and our wedding at Queens'!).
Tomorrow 7pm UK time, Matthew Dyson, Ashley Hannay and I are speaking about teaching legal history in England and Wales. The chapter we've written for an upcoming comparative volume involved empirical research across English/Welsh law schools, and reflects on future directions for the discipline.
May 21, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Tomorrow 7pm UK time, Matthew Dyson, Ashley Hannay and I are speaking about teaching legal history in England and Wales. The chapter we've written for an upcoming comparative volume involved empirical research across English/Welsh law schools, and reflects on future directions for the discipline.
First one of these is tomorrow evening. There will be some juicy content in letters from the 1920s. There will be profound insults. There will be political backstabbing. All good fun.
Enjoy land law? Want to hear me wax lyrical about how great Benjamin Cherry was, and how he drafted the LPA 1925 and its sibling statutes? There will be archives, intense political bargaining, and hot takes from Edwardian lawyers.
Cambridge 20 May (hybrid)
Oxford 27 May (in person)
Cambridge 20 May (hybrid)
Oxford 27 May (in person)
May 19, 2025 at 2:26 PM
First one of these is tomorrow evening. There will be some juicy content in letters from the 1920s. There will be profound insults. There will be political backstabbing. All good fun.
Enjoy land law? Want to hear me wax lyrical about how great Benjamin Cherry was, and how he drafted the LPA 1925 and its sibling statutes? There will be archives, intense political bargaining, and hot takes from Edwardian lawyers.
Cambridge 20 May (hybrid)
Oxford 27 May (in person)
Cambridge 20 May (hybrid)
Oxford 27 May (in person)
May 1, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Enjoy land law? Want to hear me wax lyrical about how great Benjamin Cherry was, and how he drafted the LPA 1925 and its sibling statutes? There will be archives, intense political bargaining, and hot takes from Edwardian lawyers.
Cambridge 20 May (hybrid)
Oxford 27 May (in person)
Cambridge 20 May (hybrid)
Oxford 27 May (in person)
Another week, another proof. My piece on The Statute of Labourers and Contract Law, in 'Epidemics and the Law from Plague to Present' is a bit of old-school doctrinal medieval legal history.
But, of course, it's me, so it has a cheeky twist... Out Sept 2025.
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/epidemics...
But, of course, it's me, so it has a cheeky twist... Out Sept 2025.
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/epidemics...
April 22, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Another week, another proof. My piece on The Statute of Labourers and Contract Law, in 'Epidemics and the Law from Plague to Present' is a bit of old-school doctrinal medieval legal history.
But, of course, it's me, so it has a cheeky twist... Out Sept 2025.
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/epidemics...
But, of course, it's me, so it has a cheeky twist... Out Sept 2025.
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/epidemics...
Truly, 'tis publication season, and I'm excited to see that you can now pre-order Caroline Derry and Carol Howells' edited volume on 'Legal History in the Curriculum' - out this July.
www.routledge.com/Legal-Histor...
www.routledge.com/Legal-Histor...
Legal History in the Curriculum: Comparative Perspectives, Critical Approaches and Future Directions
As legal education faces fresh challenges and opportunities, and a growing literature calls for subversive new approaches, this book engages with vital questions about the place of history in the law ...
www.routledge.com
April 14, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Truly, 'tis publication season, and I'm excited to see that you can now pre-order Caroline Derry and Carol Howells' edited volume on 'Legal History in the Curriculum' - out this July.
www.routledge.com/Legal-Histor...
www.routledge.com/Legal-Histor...