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Rebecca Probert
Rebecca鈥檚 latest project is The Nuffield Foundation funded 鈥榃hen is a wedding not a marriage? Exploring non-legally binding ceremonies鈥�. In 2015 she was seconded to the Law Commission to work on its scoping paper and since August 2019 she has been acting as specialist advisor to the Commission on its . Her research themes within the network mainly focus on relationships.
Email: R.J.Probert@exeter.ac.uk
2022
Miles J, Monk D and Probert R (Eds.) (2022 forthcoming). Fifty Years of the Divorce Reform Act (Oxford: Hart).
Probert R (2022). Escaping detection: illegal second marriages and the crime of bigamy. Journal of Genealogy and Family History, 6, 27-33.
2021
Probert R (2021). Tying the Knot: The Formation of Marriage 1836鈥�2020. Cambridge University Press.
Probert R (2021). Getting Married: The Origins of the Current Law and its Problems. Ecclesiastical Law Journal, 255-266.
Probert R (2021). Interpreting choices: what can we infer from where our ancestors married?. Journal of Genealogy and Family History, 5, 75-84.
Probert R and Pywell S (2021). Love in the time of COVID-19: a case-study of the complex laws governing weddings. Legal Studies, 41, 676-692.
2020
Akhtar R, Nash P and Probert R (2020). Cohabitation and Religious Marriage Status, Similarities and Solutions., Bristol University Press.
Probert R (2020). 'State and Law'. In Puschmann P (Ed.) A Cultural History of Marriage in the Age of Empires (1800-1920): 59-74.
2019
Miles J and Probert R (2019). Civil partnership: ties that (also) bind. Child and Family Law Quarterly, 31(4): 303-319.
Probert R (2019). R v Hall and the changing perceptions of the crime of bigamy. Legal Studies 39(1): 1-17.
Owen G and Probert R (2019). Marriage, dispensation and divorce during the years of Henry VIII's "great matter": a local case study. Law and Humanities, 13: 76-94.
2018
Probert R (2018). Undoing the marriage: the resort to annulment. In Leydecker K, Di Placidi J (Eds.) After Marriage in the Long Eighteenth Century: Literature, Law and Society. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Probert R (2018). English exports: invoking the common law of marriage across the Empire. In Moses J (Ed.) Marriage, Law and Modernity: Global Histories. London: Bloomsbury, 168-183
Probert R (2018). A Uniform Marriage Law for England and Wales?. Child and Family Law Quarterly, 30(3): 259-278.
Probert R (2018). The presumptions in favour of marriage. Cambridge Law Journal, 77(2): 375-398.
Probert R, Harding M and Dempsey B (2018). A Uniform Law of Marriage? The 1868 Royal Commission Reconsidered. Child and Family Law Quarterly, 217-235.
Probert R and Saleem S (2018). The Legal Treatment of Islamic Marriage Ceremonies. Oxford Journal of Law and Religion, 7(3): 376-400.
Pywell S, Probert R (2018). Neither sacred nor profane: the permitted content of civil marriage ceremonies. Child and Family Law Quarterly, 30(4): 415-436.
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