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.
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...
We're almost finished putting together the first Selden's Sister book - and Celebrating Women in Legal History (Hart) is looking gorgeous. We can't wait to share the range of creative, fascinating, and unexpected chapters in the volume with the #legalhistory community.
April 11, 2025 at 9:31 AM
We're almost finished putting together the first Selden's Sister book - and Celebrating Women in Legal History (Hart) is looking gorgeous. We can't wait to share the range of creative, fascinating, and unexpected chapters in the volume with the #legalhistory community.
🎉 100 years ago today, the 1925 property legislation completed its Parliamentary journey (in force 1 January 1926).
CFP for our Cambridge centenary event open until 1 May. Proposals welcome from all career stages, including PhD/ECRs, and practitioners.
www.landecon.cam.ac.uk/cambridge-ce...
CFP for our Cambridge centenary event open until 1 May. Proposals welcome from all career stages, including PhD/ECRs, and practitioners.
www.landecon.cam.ac.uk/cambridge-ce...
2025 Conference: Celebrating 100 Years of the 1925 Property Legislation
www.landecon.cam.ac.uk
April 9, 2025 at 10:20 AM
🎉 100 years ago today, the 1925 property legislation completed its Parliamentary journey (in force 1 January 1926).
CFP for our Cambridge centenary event open until 1 May. Proposals welcome from all career stages, including PhD/ECRs, and practitioners.
www.landecon.cam.ac.uk/cambridge-ce...
CFP for our Cambridge centenary event open until 1 May. Proposals welcome from all career stages, including PhD/ECRs, and practitioners.
www.landecon.cam.ac.uk/cambridge-ce...
I've got a pile of books awaiting review for the Conveyancer and Property Lawyer, on Equity; private law theory; and public/private law intersection. If you'd be interested, drop me a DM/email whether PhD/ECR, practitioner, or experienced academic. Usually comes with a free hardback copy!
March 24, 2025 at 12:39 PM
I've got a pile of books awaiting review for the Conveyancer and Property Lawyer, on Equity; private law theory; and public/private law intersection. If you'd be interested, drop me a DM/email whether PhD/ECR, practitioner, or experienced academic. Usually comes with a free hardback copy!
#Landlaw nerds may enjoy my guest Editorial in the latest Conveyancer and Property Lawyer (now available online), where I - of course - talk about the centenary of the 1925 legislation.
March 17, 2025 at 6:08 PM
#Landlaw nerds may enjoy my guest Editorial in the latest Conveyancer and Property Lawyer (now available online), where I - of course - talk about the centenary of the 1925 legislation.
Reposted by Dr Lorren Eldridge
More "feudal-era system" nonsense. People just need to stop writing this as if it is informative analysis. Leasehold is probably one of the less "feudal" parts of English land law. The real, live & kicking, feudalism is in freehold. You don't own your fee simple absolute—you hold it from the King.
Every former law student sighs, "too late, too late".
"Centuries-old leasehold system to be abolished in England and Wales"
www.theguardian.com/money/2025/m...
"Centuries-old leasehold system to be abolished in England and Wales"
www.theguardian.com/money/2025/m...
Centuries-old leasehold system to be abolished in England and Wales
Exclusive: Housing minister says overhaul of feudal-era system would take place before end of this parliament
www.theguardian.com
March 3, 2025 at 8:30 AM
More "feudal-era system" nonsense. People just need to stop writing this as if it is informative analysis. Leasehold is probably one of the less "feudal" parts of English land law. The real, live & kicking, feudalism is in freehold. You don't own your fee simple absolute—you hold it from the King.
Reposted by Dr Lorren Eldridge
Want to do a fully funded PhD on medieval English historiography? Well do I have an opportunity for you! See the attached ad and get in touch ASAP if you're interested (and please share widely).
Contesting Conquests – HDR Scholarship Opportunity - Flinders University
www.flinders.edu.au
February 4, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Want to do a fully funded PhD on medieval English historiography? Well do I have an opportunity for you! See the attached ad and get in touch ASAP if you're interested (and please share widely).
The Call for Papers for this event is now on the website, and open until 1 May 2025.
As promised, I am happy to share some details on the 1925 centenary event being held in Cambridge later this year. Full programme and registration will be available later in the year. Save the date!
www.landecon.cam.ac.uk/cambridge-ce...
www.landecon.cam.ac.uk/cambridge-ce...
2025 Conference: Celebrating 100 Years of the 1925 Property Legislation
www.landecon.cam.ac.uk
February 3, 2025 at 11:20 AM
The Call for Papers for this event is now on the website, and open until 1 May 2025.
The honorary King's Counsel appointments announced this morning include one Professor Martin Dixon, who I have the privilege of working closely with at both Queens' and on all things exciting to land law nerds. A very well-deserved recognition.
www.gov.uk/government/n...
www.gov.uk/government/n...
New Honorary King's Counsel welcomed by Lord Chancellor
His Majesty The King has approved the award of 9 new Honorary King’s Counsel (KC Honoris Causa) in England and Wales.
www.gov.uk
January 31, 2025 at 11:53 AM
The honorary King's Counsel appointments announced this morning include one Professor Martin Dixon, who I have the privilege of working closely with at both Queens' and on all things exciting to land law nerds. A very well-deserved recognition.
www.gov.uk/government/n...
www.gov.uk/government/n...
As promised, I am happy to share some details on the 1925 centenary event being held in Cambridge later this year. Full programme and registration will be available later in the year. Save the date!
www.landecon.cam.ac.uk/cambridge-ce...
www.landecon.cam.ac.uk/cambridge-ce...
2025 Conference: Celebrating 100 Years of the 1925 Property Legislation
www.landecon.cam.ac.uk
January 30, 2025 at 5:18 PM
As promised, I am happy to share some details on the 1925 centenary event being held in Cambridge later this year. Full programme and registration will be available later in the year. Save the date!
www.landecon.cam.ac.uk/cambridge-ce...
www.landecon.cam.ac.uk/cambridge-ce...
Reposted by Dr Lorren Eldridge
Reminder: call for papers remains open for Inner Temple symposium "After 1925: Reflecting on 100 years of Property Legislation" on 10 April. Deadline 17 Feb.
Here's my own paper abstract: "Equity, Ancient and Modern"
www.innertemple.org.uk/events/?id=E...
Here's my own paper abstract: "Equity, Ancient and Modern"
www.innertemple.org.uk/events/?id=E...
January 27, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Reminder: call for papers remains open for Inner Temple symposium "After 1925: Reflecting on 100 years of Property Legislation" on 10 April. Deadline 17 Feb.
Here's my own paper abstract: "Equity, Ancient and Modern"
www.innertemple.org.uk/events/?id=E...
Here's my own paper abstract: "Equity, Ancient and Modern"
www.innertemple.org.uk/events/?id=E...