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Derry, Caroline (2025). Legal Temporalities of Sexual Consent. Edinburgh, UK: Edinburgh University Press.

Derry, Caroline (2025). Feminist legal history at the heart of the law curriculum. In: Derry, Caroline and Howells, Carol eds. Legal History in the Curriculum. Transforming Legal Histories. London, UK: Routledge (In Press).

Derry, Caroline (2024). Criminal Law Amendment Act 1922. In: Auchmuty, Rosemary; Rackley, Erika and Takayanagi, Mari eds. Women’s Legal Landmarks in the Interwar Years: Not for the Want of Trying. London: Bloomsbury Publishing.

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Derry, Caroline (2024). Monica Geikie Cobb, First Woman Barrister to Appear in Court, 1922. In: Auchmuty, Rosemary; Rackley, Erika and Takayanagi, Mari eds. Women’s Legal Landmarks in the Interwar Years: Not for the Want of Trying. London, UK: Bloomsbury Publishing.

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Derry, Caroline (2023). Beyond firsts: feminist biography and early women barristers. In: Barnes, Victoria; Honkala, Nora and Wheeler, Sally eds. Women, Their Lives, and the Law: Essays in Honour of Rosemary Auchmuty. London: Hart Publishing, pp. 43–59.

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Derry, Caroline (2023). Sustained identity deceptions. In: Criminal Law Reform Now Network ed. Reforming the Relationship between Sexual Consent, Deception and Mistake. London: Criminal Law Reform Now Network, pp. 19–27.

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Derry, Caroline (2022). The ‘legal’ in socio-legal history: Woods and Pirie v Cumming Gordon. Journal of Law and Society, 49(4) pp. 778–799.

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Derry, Caroline (2020). Lesbianism and the Criminal Law: Three Centuries of Regulation in England and Wales. Basingstoke: Palgrave.

Derry, Caroline (2020). Ethel Bright Ashford: more and less than a role model. Women's History Review, 29(4) pp. 615–635.

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Derry, Caroline (2020). Consenting to Sexual Activity. In: Claydon, Lisa; Derry, Caroline and Ajevski, Marjan eds. Law in Motion: 50 years of Legal Change. The Open University Law School, pp. 136–148.

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Derry, Caroline (2018). DPP v Jonathan Cape and Leopold Hill (1928). In: Rackley, Erika and Auchmuty, Rosemary eds. Women's Legal Landmarks: Celebrating 100 Years of Women and Law in the UK and Ireland. Hart Publishing.

Derry, Caroline (2018). Ashford, Ethel Bright (1883–1980). In Cannadine, David ed. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Oxford University Press.

Derry, Caroline (2018). Clapham, Olive Catherine [married name Miles] (1898–1973). In Cannadine, David ed. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Oxford University Press.

Derry, Caroline (2018). Cobb, Monica Mary Geikie (1891–1946). In Cannadine, David ed. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Oxford University Press.

Derry, Caroline (2018). Lesbianism and Feminist Legislation in 1921: the Age of Consent and 'Gross Indecency between Women'. History Workshop Journal, 86(Autumn) pp. 245–267.

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Derry, Caroline (2018). Criminal Law. In: Auchmuty, Rosemary ed. Great Debates in Gender and Law. Palgrave Great Debates in Law. Palgrave, pp. 37–48.

Derry, Caroline (2017). ‘Female Husbands’, Community and Courts in the Eighteenth Century. Journal of Legal History, 38(1) pp. 54–79.

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