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Gender and Careers in the Legal Academy

Gender and Careers in the Legal Academy

Author: Ulrike Schultz; Gisela Shaw; Margaret Thornton; Rosemary Auchmuty
Publisher: Hart Publishing
ISBN: 9781509923113

Published In: February 2021
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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Paperback Edition ISBN: 9781509946648

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In the past fifteen years there has been a marked increase in the international scholarship relating to women in law. The lives and careers of women in legal practice and the judiciary have been extensively documented and critiqued, but the central conundrum remains: Does the presence of women make a difference?

What has been largely overlooked in the literature is the position of women in the legal academy, although central to the changing culture. To remedy the oversight, an international network of scholars embarked on a comparative study, which resulted in this path-breaking book.

The contributors uncover fascinating accounts of the careers of the academic pioneers as well as exploring broader theoretical issues relating to gender and culture. The provocative question as to whether the presence of women makes a difference informs each contribution.

Introduction: Gender and Careers in the Legal Academy: Overview and Synthesis

Ulrike Schultz, FernUniversität in Hagen, Germany

PART I. GENDER AND CAREERS IN THE LEGAL ACADEMY

1. Gender and Careers in the Legal Academy in Germany: Women's Difficult Path from Pioneers to a (Still Contested) Minority

Ulrike Schultz, FernUniversität in Hagen, Germany

2. Gender and the Legal Academy in the UK: A Product of Proxies and Hiring and Promotion Practices

Liz Duff, University of Westminster, UK and Lisa Webley, University of Birmingham, UK

3. The Feminisation of Legal Academia in Quebec: Achievements and Challenges

Julie Paquin, University of Ottawa, Canada

4. Women, Difference and Identities in the Brazilian Legal Professoriate

Maria da Gloria Bonelli, Federal University of Sao Carlos, Brazil

5. India's Women Legal Academics: Who They Are and Where You Might Find Them

Swethaa S Ballakrishnen, University of California, Irvine, USA and Rupali Samuel is a human rights lawyer and researcher based in New Delhi

6. Women in the Legal Academy at the Law School of the University of Buenos Aires

Beatriz Kohen, University of Palermo , Italy, Sonia Ariza Navarrete, University of Palermo, Italy and Maria de los Angeles Ramallo, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina

7. Breaking the Veil of Masculinity? Women and the Legal Academy in Ghana

J Jarpa Dawuni, Howard University, USA

PART II. HISTORY OF WOMEN IN LAW FACULTIES

8. Why not Faster? Women in the Czech and Czechoslovak Legal Academy

Jan Kober, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic

9. Gender and Law Teaching in Scotland

Peter Robson, University of Strathclyde, UK

10. Women's Entry and Integration into Israel's Legal Academia: History, Story, Non-Story and the Men(tor)

Eyal Katvan, Peres Academic Center, Israel and Ruth Halperin-Kaddari, Bar-Ilan University, Israel

11. Women Legal Academics in China

Xiaonan Liu, China University of Political Science and Law, China

12. Women Law Teachers in the Philippines then, Now and Six Decades in between: The Cheerless Transformation of a Road Less Travelled to a Path Oft-Chosen for Convenience

Emily Sanchez Salcedo, De La Salle University, Philippines

PART III. FIRST AND EARLY WOMEN LAW PROFESSORS

13. Madeleine Gevers-Dwelshauvers (1897–1994). A Grande Dame at the Université Libre de Bruxelles

Hans den Tonkelaar, Radboud University, the Netherlands

14. Compromise, Autonomy and Courage: Derkje Hazewinkel-Suringa, First Female Law Professor in the Netherlands (1889–1970)

Leny de Groot-van Leeuwen, Radboud University, the Netherlands

15. Inkeri Anttila, the First Woman Law Professor in Finland (1916–2013)

Harriet Silius, Abo Akademi University, Finland

16. Women and the Legal Academy in Estonia: In Memory of Vera Poska-Grünthal, the First Woman Law Lecturer in Tartu

Merike Ristikivi, University of Tartu, Estonia

17. Alice Erh-Soon Tay and the Character of Legal Knowledge

Susan Bartie, University of Tasmania

18. Oral History and Australia's First Women Law Professors

Kim Rubenstein, University of Canberra, Australia

19. The Way to Barbara Armstrong, First Tenure-Track Law Professor in an Accredited US Law School

Susan D Carle, American University Washington, USA

20. Why Aisha Rateb could not become Egypt's First Female Judge, and became Egypt's First Female Law Professor Instead

Omnia Mehanna, Egypt country national coordinator of the African Union of Development NGOs (UAOD) and Nadia Sonneveld, Leiden University, the Netherlands

21. First Female Law Student and Law Professor in Kuwait: Badria Al-Awadhi Opens Doors for Women in Law 1967–2020

Rania Maktabi, Ostfold University College, Norway

PART IV. PERSONAL NARRATIVES

22. Memories: Becoming a Law Professor

Celia Wells, University of Bristol, UK

23. 'Herculean Obstacles and Intrepid Complainants': The Sex Discrimination Complaint at Osgoode Hall Law School, 1987–1994

Mary Jane Mossman, York University, Canada

PART V. FEMINISM IN THE LEGAL ACADEMY

24. The Road to Olive Stone

Rosemary Auchmuty, University of Reading, UK and Jennifer Temkin, University of Sussex, UK

25. The First and Last(?) Feminist Law Professors in Australia

Margaret Thornton, Australian National University