- Professor of Feminism, Law and History, The Open University
Professor of Feminism, Law and History.
Caroline formerly practised as a barrister and solicitor and has worked in academia for over 20 years. She has published on gender, sexuality and criminal law, legal history, and the entry of women into the legal profession.
Experience
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2024–presentProfessor, The Open University
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2017–2024Senior lecturer, The Open University
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2001–2017Senior lecturer, London Metropolitan University
Education
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2007University of Westminster, PhD Law
Publications
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2026'The Wolfenden Report, homosexuality, and women' in Law and Justice in the 1950s, University of London Press
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2026Messages to the future? Lesbian subversion of official categories in the 1921 UK Census, Journal of Lesbian Studies
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2025Legal Temporalities of Sexual Consent, Edinburgh University Press
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2025Legal History in the Curriculum: Comparative Perspectives, Critical Approaches and Future Directions, Routledge
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2025Complete Criminal Law (9th Edition), Oxford University Press
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2022The legal in socio-legal history: Woods and Pirie v Cumming Gordon, Journal of Law and Society
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2020Lesbianism and the Criminal Law, Palgrave
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2020Ethel Bright Ashford: more and less than a role model, Women's History Review
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2018Lesbianism and feminist legislation in 1921: the age of consent and 'gross indecency between women', History Workshop Journal
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2017'Female husbands', community and the courts in the eighteenth century, Journal of Legal History
Professional Memberships
- Royal Historical Society - elected fellow
Contact Caroline for
- General
- Media request
- Speaking request
- Consulting / Advising
- Research collaboration
- Research supervision
- Location: London, UK
- Website
- BlueSky: @carolinederry.bsky.social
- Instagram: drcarolinederry
- LinkedIn: caroline-derry-a53943194
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