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 Rebecca Probert
Professor of Law at the University of Exeter, FBA, FAcSS, FHistS
Rebecca is Professor of Law at the University of Exeter. Her research focuses on the current law and history of marriage, bigamy, divorce and cohabitation in England and Wales.
She was the specialist consultant to the Law Commission’s Weddings Project and a co-investigator on a research project funded by the Nuffield Foundation to examine non-legally binding marriage ceremonies.
Her most recent books on the history of bigamy explore the gendered dimensions of the offence in terms of perpetrators, perceived harm, and punishment.
She is currently working on a project with Jo Miles on legal issues in the works of Agatha Christie (@legallyagatha) and embarking on a new project on wife sale.
Dr Rhiannon Ogden-Jones
Lecturer Law at the University of Oxford
Rhiannon completed her DPhil in law at the University of Oxford and as recipient of the Christopher and Sharyn Brooks Graduate Scholarship. Her doctoral research explored 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.
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