Dr Lorren Eldridge

It's publication day!

You can now buy Celebrating Women in Legal History here: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/celebrati...

Selden’s Sister presents: the book launch of Celebrating Women in Legal History

4 March 2026
5pm
Old Hall
Queens’ College
Cambridge

Celebrating Women in Legal History Book Launch 4 March 2026, 5pm Event Address: Old Hall, Queens' College, Cambridge CB3 9ET (entrance via Silver St Porters Lodge) Contact le377@cam.ac.uk with queries.

Join the editors, contributors, and guests to celebrate the launch of this book. Children and families are welcome. Drinks will be provided.

Please RSVP here if you plan to attend: forms.gle/zUA4ypZBf82M...

Any questions should be directed to Lorren Eldridge (le377@cam.ac.uk).

Celebrating Women in Legal History This book champions the work of women in legal history, and their contributions to both the discipline and feminist activism over nearly two centuries. It consi…

You can find details and order the book here: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/celebrati...

Whilst some women were pioneers and worked to change gendered aspects of the law, others led more ordinary lives, disappearing from the gaze of legal history even as they contributed to it. This book tells some of their stories.

Celebrating Women in Legal History This book champions the work of women in legal history, and their contributions to both the discipline and feminist activism over nearly two centuries. It consi…

Celebrating Women in Legal History champions the work of women in legal history, and their contributions to both the discipline and feminist activism over nearly two centuries.

Selden’s Sister presents: the book launch of Celebrating Women in Legal History

4 March 2026
5pm
Old Hall
Queens’ College
Cambridge

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.

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!

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.

📚 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).

Book Reviews can be a good way for PhD students or ECRs to get publication experience and raise their profiles, or for practitioners to engage with academia.

If that sounds fun, please drop me an email (le377@cam.ac.uk) letting me know what your areas of interest are.

📚 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).

I take a few shots at Grey v IRC, and the idea a trust can exist without being enforceable, rounding off by agreeing with the CoA maj that this is essentially about sham (transaction at an undervalue under the IA 1986) bearing on constitution of the trust, rather than really being about formalities.

I argue based on the archival materials relating to 1925 that the drafting intention was not to break with the Statute of Frauds, but also that the drafters’ understanding of agency - which bears on this case - was a bit different to what has been thought so far.

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.

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!

I got into the just sum in BP v Hunt and we agreed that they would keep an admin fee not the whole deposit, as they initially tried to. Their manager seemed a bit shell shocked by the end of the conversation. Good teaching material ever since, though.

Did the policy pay out? Ours didn’t cover infectious disease outbreaks and I ended up giving the venue a lesson on frustration in contract law to get our deposit back.

Close one!

It’s a bit of a strange scenario in that our wedding was originally planned for 2020. I picked up my wedding dress 3 days before the first lockdown. And then we moved to Scotland, so I was less bothered (no CICT in Scotland!). And now we’re back down, so… 😁

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.

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

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.

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.

If they are pursuing further study involving any kind of legal history, they can check out our postgraduate mentoring scheme!

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