Meet the Team
Dr Lorren Eldridge
Assistant Professor in Private Law at Queens’ College, Cambridge
Dr Eldridge’s research interests lie in land law and legal history. Her work includes publications on medieval English law, methods in legal history and legal theory, and English land law. She is particularly interested in understanding the legacies and connections between legal history and contemporary law, especially in the context of large reform projects in property law over the last 150 years. She is also a co-founder of the Selden’s Sister network for women in legal history, which produces research on women who have contributed to the discipline as well as promoting activities for modern day scholarship. Her teaching interests span private law and legal history generally, including comparative work.
Executive Members
Dr Emily Ireland
Lecturer in Law at the University of Liverpool
Dr Emily Ireland is a lecturer in law at the University of Liverpool. Her research interests are in legal history, particularly socio-legal and feminist histories of the criminal law, equity, and family law. Emily is interested in how subordinated peoples have negotiated the law over time and the relationship of gender and the law in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. She is also interested in how historical methodologies, such as history’s ‘spatial turn’ and the history of emotions, can be utilised in legal-historical scholarship. Emily is co-founder of Selden's Sister, a research network that aims to celebrate women's contributions to legal history in the past, present and future.
Professor Caroline Derry
Professor of Feminism, Law and History at the Open University
Caroline’s research interests are in gender, sexuality and criminal law, both historical and contemporary, and legal biography. She has published on the legal regulation of lesbianism from the 18th century to the present and is interested in how legal history can inform our understanding of current law and the risks and possibilities of reforming it. Her publications on feminist legal biography ask searching questions of our methods and purposes while examining the lives of pioneering women barristers. She is passionate about engaging others in history and law, particularly the contributions and experiences of women.
Dr Sarah White
Assistant Professor in Law at the University of Nottingham
Dr Sarah White is Assistant Professor in the Law of Trusts and Co-Director of the History of Law and Governance Centre. Sarah's main teaching and research interests combine law, history, and religion, particularly as pertains to the historical development of English ecclesiastical law, Common Law, and the courts of equity in the medieval period. She also teaches modern law modules, particularly Trusts Law. She has published on various aspects of court procedure and litigation and has a forthcoming volume on medieval wills (along with related articles on the development of trusts, uses, and probate jurisdiction).
Rhiannon Ogden-Jones
DPhil candidate in Law at the University of Oxford
Rhiannon is currently reading for a DPhil in law at the University of Oxford and is the recipient of the Christopher and Sharyn Brooks Graduate Scholarship. Her doctoral research explores the legal history of National Parks, looking at the legal relationship between National Parks, land ownership and administrative law in England and Wales. Alongside her research, Rhiannon is a College Lecturer at St Hugh’s College and Keble College, University of Oxford.
Dr Stephanie Dropuljic
Lecturer in Law at the University of Exeter
Stephanie is a lecturer in criminal law and evidence at the University of Exeter. Her research interests are in legal history, particularly criminal law and evidence. Stephanie is interested in the development of Scottish criminal law in the early modern period, aspects of criminal liability, as well as the uses of feminist legal theory in historical methodologies. She is also interested in modern law reform in evidence and procedure, as well as interdisciplinary and comparative work in criminal law and evidence. Stephanie seeks to encourage the use of feminism and critical methodologies to engage with the experiences of others and understand how this has influenced and shaped the criminal law and the law of evidence. She has published on the role of women in raising criminal actions of homicide, elections and governance in early modern Scotland, and on the classificatory rules regarding homicide in Scots criminal law.
Niamh Hannah
Research Assistant
Niamh is currently working as a research assistant for Selden’s Sister and Dr Lorren Eldridge.
Dr Joanna McCunn
Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Bristol
Members
Professor Gwen Seabourne
Professor of Legal History at the University of Bristol