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Assistant Professor in Private Law

MA (Oxon), DPhil, AFHEA, Solicitor England and Wales (non-practising)

Interests

Land law; legal history; historical jurisprudence; legal methods; comparative legal history; equity and trusts; English private law

Research centres and interest groups

CV / Biography

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. She has previously been an Early Career Fellow at the University of Edinburgh and a college lecturer at Corpus Christi College, Oxford and Christ Church, Oxford. 

Selected publications

 

Books

Law and the Medieval Village Community Reinvigorating Historical Jurisprudence, 2023)

Articles

"Whatever Happened to Tenure?" [2024] 3 Conv 251

Citation:
[2024] 3 Conv 251
Published: Oct 2024

"Leases, rocks, and hard places: Estates without contracts and contracts without estates" (2023) 193 LQR 290

Citation:
(2023) 193 LQR 290
Published: Apr 2023

"Gone and forgotten: Vinogradoff’s historical jurisprudence" (2021) 41(2) LS 194

Citation:
(2021) 41(2) LS 194
Published: Jan 2021

"Centenary Celebrations" [2025] 1 Conv 1-4

Citation:
[2025] 1 Conv 1-4

Book Chapters

"Opportunities in Teaching Global Legal History" in Caroline Derry and Carol Howells (ed(s)), Legal History in the Curriculum), forthcoming

Publisher:
ISBN 13:
9781032754970
Published Forthcoming

"Legal History Teaching in England and Wales, La enseñanza de la Historia del Derecho en Inglaterra y Gales." (with Matthew Dyson; Ashley Hannay) in Agustin Parise; Viviana Kluger; Oscar Barney (ed(s)), Diálogos transnacionales entre historiadores del derecho/Transnational Dialogues amongst Legal Historians), forthcoming

Published Forthcoming

"Centralisation of Labour Regulation in Response to the Black Death: The Statute of Labourers and Contract Law" in Emily Gordon; Charles Mitchell; Ian Williams (ed(s)), Epidemics and the Law from Plague to the Present), forthcoming

Publisher:
ISBN 13:
9781509984442
Published Forthcoming

"English Medieval Law and the Property Legislation of 1925" in Dag Michalson; Johannes Liebrecht (ed(s)), Transferring medieval law to modernity: Appropriating medieval heritage after 1800), forthcoming

Publisher:
Published Forthcoming

Book Reviews

[Review of] Great Debates in Land Law [2023] 4 Conv 403

Published Dec 2023

[Review of] Metaphysical Animals: How Four Women Brought Philosophy Back to Life By Clare Mac Cumhaill and Rachael Wiseman (2023) 1 International J L Context

Published Jan 2023

[Review of] Women in the Medieval Common Law c. 1200-1500 by Gwen Seabourne (2022) 138 LQR 509

Published Jul 2022

Case Notes

Looking a guest horse in the mouth: Proprietary estoppel in English Law [2023] 1 Conv 101

Published: Mar 2023