Dr Lorren Eldridge

Assist Prof Private Law @cambridgelaw, Fellow Queens’ college. co-founder @SeldensSister. Land law, historical jurisprudence. AFHEA. She/her.

[Dr Lorren Eldridge @loreldridge]

Started your Christmas shopping yet? The paperback version of Law and the Medieval Village Community is now available to pre order, out at the end of November. The perfect stocking filler at a much lower price point than the hardback.

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[Land Law @propertylaw1925]

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[Legal History Blog @legalhistory]

Eldridge, Ireland and Derry's "Celebrating Women in Legal History" https://t.co/i4dX9r2vUB

[Land Law @propertylaw1925]

100 years of the 1925 Law of Property Act https://t.co/biY5n0Jm1l. #landlaw

[Dr David Sawtell KC @drfsawtell]

It was great fun recording this just before Christmas with Martin Dixon, Lorna Fox O’Mahony and @loreldridge ! Plenty of debate about the 1925 property legislation regime.

[Dr Lorren Eldridge @loreldridge]

This is now out as Lorren Eldridge, 'Section 53(1)(b) and the Rest is History' [2025] Conv 363 - full text on Westlaw.

[Dr Lorren Eldridge @loreldridge]

Proofs proofs proofs proofs! Produced at high speed to get in there between the Court of Appeal judgment and the UKSC hearing in NIOC v Crescent Gas, my article on the drafting history of s53(1)(b) of the LPA 1925 will be out in the Conveyancer shortly.

[Dr Lorren Eldridge @loreldridge]

📚 It's that regular call for persons interested in writing for the Conveyancer Book Reviews section 📚

This time, particularly reviewers interested in construction; and trusts.

Reviews for Conv are short, and we publish 4 times a with fairly flexible deadlines (within reason).

[Dr Lorren Eldridge @loreldridge]

Book Reviews can be a good way for PhD students or ECRs to get publication experience and raise their profiles, or for practitioners to engage with academia.

If that sounds fun, please drop me an email ([email protected]) letting me know what your areas of interest are.

[Dr Lorren Eldridge @loreldridge]

📚 It's that regular call for persons interested in writing for the Conveyancer Book Reviews section 📚

This time, particularly reviewers interested in construction; and trusts.

Reviews for Conv are short, and we publish 4 times a with fairly flexible deadlines (within reason).

[Dr Lorren Eldridge @loreldridge]

I take a few shots at Grey v IRC, and the idea an unenforceable trust can exist, rounding off by agreeing with the CoA maj that this is essentially about sham (transaction at an undervalue under IA 1986) bearing on constitution, rather than really being about formalities.

[Dr Lorren Eldridge @loreldridge]

Proofs proofs proofs proofs! Produced at high speed to get in there between the Court of Appeal judgment and the UKSC hearing in NIOC v Crescent Gas, my article on the drafting history of s53(1)(b) of the LPA 1925 will be out in the Conveyancer shortly.

[Dr Lorren Eldridge @loreldridge]

I argue based on the archival materials relating to 1925 that the drafting intention was not to break with the Statute of Frauds, but also that the drafters’ understanding of agency - which bears on this case - was a bit different to what has been thought so far.

[Dr Lorren Eldridge @loreldridge]

Pleased to have my hard copy 'Epidemics and the Law from Plague to the Present' - I'm "plague"! My first pub on contract law, involves old school doctrinal #legalhistory, statutory interpretation (what can I say: I like what I like), and a little modern law twist in the middle.

[Dr Lorren Eldridge @loreldridge]

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 @SeldensSister, who also run PG mentoring scheme.

£100 in Hart Publishing vouches up for grabs!

[Dr Lorren Eldridge @loreldridge]

Selden's Sister has launched an essay competition for undergraduates interested in legal history.

£100 @hartpublishing 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

[Dr Lorren Eldridge @loreldridge]

@propertylaw1925 @drfsawtell

[Dr Lorren Eldridge @loreldridge]

Back to work today after a big weekend 💕

[Dr Lorren Eldridge @loreldridge]

I’m really excited to read this!

[Paul J. du Plessis @SententiaePauli]

It’s publication day, folks. Available from the website of the Press or Amazon. May you find it useful in your own work.

[Dr Lorren Eldridge @loreldridge]

Final preparations for 1925 conf underway, and getting excited to welcome fantastic speakers and attendees to Cambridge on Monday.

Need 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.

[Dr Lorren Eldridge @loreldridge]

@propertylaw1925 @ED_LeveyKC @BarbaraRich_law @AlastairTaff @ParrotLegal @jaimerh354 @TonyKent_Writes @AdamWagner1 I think he blocked me for speaking to other people he blocked on here. Or possibly it was when he fell out with the Secret Barrister. Can’t recall. I was not blocked for a surprisingly long time, though.

[Dr Lorren Eldridge @loreldridge]

@jameswmullen @casescasescases @propertylaw1925 @Stocklington

[Dr Lorren Eldridge @loreldridge]

@casescasescases @jameswmullen @propertylaw1925 @Stocklington I know for a fact this is not the first time @propertylaw1925 has used the land registration regime as a threat. This will surprise no one.