Lorren Eldridge is a lawyer and legal historian whose research focuses on how legal history can be useful in understanding and developing modern law. She is particularly interested in English land law, both medieval and more recent, and in the legal philosophical approach and method known as historical jurisprudence. She currently teaches legal history, Roman law, and private law at the University of Edinburgh.

Lorren has worked on medieval law, including in a monograph published in 2023, focusing on customary rights in land in medieval law through the study of the ‘village community’. Whilst this work involved one application of the methodology known as ‘historical jurisprudence’, which seeks to connect legal theory and legal history, her wider research agenda involves exploration of this method across a range of contexts in time and space, centred on Land Law. More recent work has focused on the English law of leases, and on proprietary estoppel. She is currently working on a BA/Leverhulme funded project exploring the history of leases and the Law of Property Act 1925. This work is intended to help develop reform conversations in the current law by providing a firmer doctrinal underpinning for the current law of leasehold, and explores historical concepts such as estates and tenures in modern context.

Lorren is currently the Books Reviews Editor for the Conveyancer and Property Lawyer.