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.
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
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.
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...
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.
I'm sure I've told you before to keep that filth to yourself.
January 29, 2025 at 2:25 PM
I'm sure I've told you before to keep that filth to yourself.
It's 2025, you know what that means?
That's right, it means the most interesting statute in #landlaw is 100 years old!
This year will have a veritable feast of 1925 events, talks, seminars, including ours in Cambridge in Sept, celebrating 100 years of property law reform.
That's right, it means the most interesting statute in #landlaw is 100 years old!
This year will have a veritable feast of 1925 events, talks, seminars, including ours in Cambridge in Sept, celebrating 100 years of property law reform.
January 1, 2025 at 10:29 AM
It's 2025, you know what that means?
That's right, it means the most interesting statute in #landlaw is 100 years old!
This year will have a veritable feast of 1925 events, talks, seminars, including ours in Cambridge in Sept, celebrating 100 years of property law reform.
That's right, it means the most interesting statute in #landlaw is 100 years old!
This year will have a veritable feast of 1925 events, talks, seminars, including ours in Cambridge in Sept, celebrating 100 years of property law reform.
The Selden's Sister Mentoring Scheme is now ready to start matching mentors and mentees in #legalhistory. You can express your interest (and read the Data Protection Policy) here:
www.seldenssister.com/mentoring
www.seldenssister.com/mentoring
November 19, 2024 at 3:52 PM
The Selden's Sister Mentoring Scheme is now ready to start matching mentors and mentees in #legalhistory. You can express your interest (and read the Data Protection Policy) here:
www.seldenssister.com/mentoring
www.seldenssister.com/mentoring
We had an excellent #legalhistory event for Selden's Sister's first annual lecture yesterday, and really enjoyed seeing such a wide range of people asking Lady Hale such a varied set of questions in the Q&A.
Find out more about us at
www.seldenssister.com
Find out more about us at
www.seldenssister.com
November 15, 2024 at 10:29 AM
We had an excellent #legalhistory event for Selden's Sister's first annual lecture yesterday, and really enjoyed seeing such a wide range of people asking Lady Hale such a varied set of questions in the Q&A.
Find out more about us at
www.seldenssister.com
Find out more about us at
www.seldenssister.com
Today is the Selden's Sister women in legal history networking event, which I am missing out on due to the general collapse of late stage capitalism. It's going to be a great day (even without me...).
December 8, 2023 at 10:35 AM
Today is the Selden's Sister women in legal history networking event, which I am missing out on due to the general collapse of late stage capitalism. It's going to be a great day (even without me...).
Quick job this morning doing the proofs of my review of the new edition of Great Debates in Land Law, which will be out in the next Conveyancer shortly.
The summary version is I loved it for saying so many of the quiet parts out loud.
The summary version is I loved it for saying so many of the quiet parts out loud.
November 20, 2023 at 9:51 AM
Quick job this morning doing the proofs of my review of the new edition of Great Debates in Land Law, which will be out in the next Conveyancer shortly.
The summary version is I loved it for saying so many of the quiet parts out loud.
The summary version is I loved it for saying so many of the quiet parts out loud.