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Dr Emily Ireland is a Lecturer in Law at the University of Liverpool’s School of Law and Social Justice, part of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. She holds an LLB from the University of Manchester, an LLM from University College London, and a PhD from the University of Adelaide. Her research focuses on legal history, particularly socio-legal and feminist perspectives of criminal law, equity, and family law, emphasizing how marginalized groups interacted with historical legal systems. She co-directs Selden's Sister, a network for women in legal history, and the Northern Legal History Group.
Her work includes examining gender dynamics in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century English law, such as married women’s litigation in the Court of Chancery and the doctrine of coverture. She contributed to the Australian Research Council’s ‘A New History of the Law in Post-Revolutionary England’ project and is drafting chapters for the Oxford History of the Laws: Volume IX.
Emily has received the Doctoral Research Medal (2021) and Dean’s Commendation (2020) for her thesis on married women’s litigation. Her publications span legal history, emotions in legal contexts, and feminist legal scholarship. She teaches modules on Equity & Trusts, Legal History, and Foundations of Law and Social Justice.
