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The Childhood, Law & Policy Network (CLPN)

Professor Máiréad Enright

Professor of Law, Loughborough University, United Kingdom

Email: m.enright@lboro.ac.uk

Profile

Máiréad Enright is a feminist legal scholar working on issues including reproductive justice, law reform and grassroots organising, illegality in social movements, responses to historical injustice and the law on obstetric violence. Máiréad often works with and advises groups campaigning around reproductive rights and historical gender-based violence, especially in Ireland and Northern Ireland, and occasionally collaborates with artists interested in these issues.

Research

Publications

  • Enright, Máiréad. "Haunting reform: older women, English Good Shepherd institutions and the Children Act 1948." Contemporary British History (2025): 1-38.
  • Enright, Máiréad. "“Up with the Brave”: Gender, Transgression and Judges’ Use of Catholic Convents in England and Ireland, 1930–1959." Law and History Review (2024): 1-25.

Expertise

Feminist legal studies; legal history (especially adolescents in carceral institutions); clerical child abuse.
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