Research outputs
2026
Celebrating Women in Legal History: Making and Shaping a Discipline
Eldridge, L., Ireland, E., & Derry, C. (2026). Celebrating Women in Legal History: Making and Shaping a Discipline.
Selden’s Sister and Women in Legal History
Eldridge, L., Ireland, E., & Derry, C. (2026). Selden’s Sister and Women in Legal History. In Celebrating Women in Legal History Making and Shaping A Discipline (pp. 1-13).
Women, Infants and ‘Lunatics’ before the Court of Chancery in the Wake of the South Sea Bubble
Ireland, E. (2026). Women, Infants and ‘Lunatics’ before the Court of Chancery in the Wake of the South Sea Bubble. In Essays on the History of Equity (pp. 291-308).
2024
Early modern family property: coverture and Dewar’s ‘familialisation’
Ireland, E. (2024). Early modern family property: coverture and Dewar’s ‘familialisation’. In Research Handbook on Family Property and the Law (pp. 45-60). Edward Elgar Publishing. doi:10.4337/9781802204681.00010
2022
Conventional and Unconventional Emotions in the Eighteenth-Century English Court of Chancery
Ireland, E. (2022). Conventional and Unconventional Emotions in the Eighteenth-Century English Court of Chancery. In Cultural Histories of Law, Media and Emotion (pp. 121-140). Routledge. doi:10.4324/9781003050520-9
Re-examining the Presumption: Coverture and 'Legal Impossibilities' in Early Modern English Criminal Law
Ireland, E. (2022). Re-examining the Presumption: Coverture and 'Legal Impossibilities' in Early Modern English Criminal Law. JOURNAL OF LEGAL HISTORY, 43(2), 187-209. doi:10.1080/01440365.2022.2092945
2021
Kathryn D. Temple, Loving Justice: Legal Emotions in Blackstone's England, New York: New York University Press, 2019. Pp. viii, 265. $45.00 hardcover (ISBN 9781479895274).
Ireland, E. (2021). Kathryn D. Temple, Loving Justice: Legal Emotions in Blackstone's England, New York: New York University Press, 2019. Pp. viii, 265. $45.00 hardcover (ISBN 9781479895274).. Law and History Review, 39(2), 399-400. doi:10.1017/s0738248021000183
2020
Mysteries and Enigmas: The Common Law Forfeiture Rule
Villios, S., Plater, D., Jay, O., Evans, T., & Ireland, E. (2020). Mysteries and Enigmas: The Common Law Forfeiture Rule (14).
"Women in Disputes: A History of European Women in Mediation and Arbitration", Review of Women in Disputes: A History of European Women in Mediation and Arbitration by Susanna Hoe and Derek Roebuck
Ireland, E. (2020). "Women in Disputes: A History of European Women in Mediation and Arbitration", Review of Women in Disputes: A History of European Women in Mediation and Arbitration by Susanna Hoe and Derek Roebuck. Women's History, 2(15).
The Household as a Space of the Law in Eighteenth-Century England
Barclay, K., & Ireland, E. (2020). The Household as a Space of the Law in Eighteenth-Century England. Law and History, 7(2), 98-126.
2019
Rebutting the Presumption: Rethinking the Common Law Principle of Marital Coercion in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century England
Ireland, E. (2019). Rebutting the Presumption: Rethinking the Common Law Principle of Marital Coercion in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century England. The Journal of Legal History, 40(1), 21-43. doi:10.1080/01440365.2019.1576354