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Gender and Careers in the Legal Academy

Author : Ulrike Schultz

Publisher : Hart Publishing

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 33,21 MB

Release : 2022-10-20

Category : Law

ISBN : 1509946640

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Introduction : gender and careers in the legal academy : overview and synthesis / Ulrike Schultz -- Gender and careers in the legal academy in Germany : women's difficult path from pioneers to a (still contested) minority / Ulrike Schultz -- Gender and the Legal academy in the UK : a product of proxies and hiring and promotion practices / Liz Duff and Lisa Webley -- The feminisation of Legal Academia in Quebec : achievements and challenges / Julie Paquin -- Women, difference and identities in the Brazilian legal professoriate / Maria da Gloria Bonelli -- India's women legal academics : who they are and where you might find them / Swethaa S Ballakrishnen and Rupali Samuel -- Women in the Legal Academy at the Law School of the University of Buenos Aires / Beatriz Kohen, Sonia Ariza Navarrete and Maria de los Angeles Ramallo -- Breaking the veil of masculinity? Women and the Legal Academy in Ghana / J Jarpa Dawuni -- Why not Faster? Women in the Czech and Czechoslovak Legal Academy / Jan Kober -- Gender and law teaching in Scotland / Peter Robson -- Women's entry and integration into Israel's Legal Academia : history, story, non-story and the men(tor) / Eyal Katvan and Ruth Halperin-Kaddari -- Women Legal Academics in China / Xiaonan Liu -- 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 -- Madeleine Gevers-Dwelshauvers (1897-1994). A Grande Dame at the Université Libre de Bruxelles / Hans den Tonkelaar -- Compromise, autonomy and courage : Derkje Hazewinkel-Suringa, First Female Law Professor in the Netherlands (1889-1970) / Leny de Groot-van Leeuwen -- Inkeri Anttila, the First Woman Law Professor in Finland (1916-2013) / Harriet Silius -- Women and the Legal Academy in Estonia : in memory of Vera Poska-Grünthal, the First Woman Law Lecturer in Tartu / Merike Ristikivi -- Alice Erh-Soon Tay and the character of legal knowledge / Susan Bartie -- Oral history and Australia's First Women Law Professors / Kim Rubenstein -- The way to Barbara Armstrong, First Tenure-Track Law Professor in an Accredited US Law School / Susan D Carle -- Why Aisha Rateb could not become Egypt-s First Female Judge, and became Egypt's First Female Law Professor instead / Omnia Mehanna and Nadia Sonneveld -- First Female Law Student and Law Professor in Kuwait : Badria Al-Awadhi Opens Doors for Women in Law 1967-2020 / Rania Maktabi -- Memories : becoming a law professor / Celia Wells -- 'Herculean obstacles and intrepid complainants' : the sex discrimination complaint at Osgoode Hall Law School, 1987-1994 / Mary Jane Mossman -- The road to olive stone / Rosemary Auchmuty and Jennifer Temkin -- The First and Last(?) Feminist Law Professors in Australia / Margaret Thornton -- Feminist legal academics : changing the epistemology of American law through conflicts, controversies and comparisons / Carrie Menkel-Meadow -- Rethinking masculinities in the legal academy : men, gender and legal careers (or, whatever happened to the 'nutty professor'?) / Richard Collier -- Patriarchal discourses in the UK Legal Academy : the case of the reasonable man / Hilary Sommerlad.



Gender and Careers in the Legal Academy

Author : Ulrike Schultz

Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing

Page : 604 pages

File Size : 13,28 MB

Release : 2021-02-25

Category : Law

ISBN : 1509923128

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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.



Unequal Profession

Author : Meera E Deo

Publisher : Stanford University Press

Page : 287 pages

File Size : 18,22 MB

Release : 2019-02-05

Category : Law

ISBN : 1503607852

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A study of the experiences of women of color law school faculty and the effect of race and gender on legal education. This book is the first formal, empirical investigation into the law faculty experience using a distinctly intersectional lens, examining both the personal and professional lives of law faculty members. Comparing the professional and personal experiences of women of color professors with white women, white men, and men of color faculty from assistant professor through dean emeritus, Unequal Profession explores how the race and gender of individual legal academics affects not only their individual and collective experience, but also legal education as a whole. Drawing on quantitative and qualitative empirical data, Meera E. Deo reveals how race and gender intersect to create profound implications for women of color law faculty members, presenting unique challenges as well as opportunities to improve educational and professional outcomes in legal education. Deo shares the powerful stories of law faculty who find themselves confronting intersectional discrimination and implicit bias in the form of silencing, mansplaining, and the presumption of incompetence, to name a few. Through hiring, teaching, colleague interaction, and tenure and promotion, Deo brings the experiences of diverse faculty to life and proposes several mechanisms to increase diversity within legal academia and to improve the experience of all faculty members. Praise for Unequal Profession “Fascinating, shocking, and infuriating, Meera Deo’s careful qualitative research exposes the institutional practices and cultural norms that maintain a separate and unequal race-gender order even within the privileged ranks of tenure-track law professors. With riveting quotes from faculty across a range of institutional and social positions, Unequal Profession powerfully reminds us that we must do better. I saw my own career in this book—and you might, too.” —Angela P. Harris, University of California, Davis “A powerful account of inequality in legal academia. Quantitative data and compelling narratives bring to life the challenges and roadblocks in gaining not just entry and tenure but also respect for the voices of minority women within the academy. There are no easy remedies, but reading this book is a good place to start for lawyers and law professors to understand what minority women face and which practices can increase the odds of success.” —Bryant G. Garth, University of California, Irvine “Unequal Profession should be mandatory reading for everyone in legal academia . . . . By providing concrete evidence of systemic discrimination, Meera Deo illuminates a long-standing problem needing to be remedied.” —Sarah Deer, University of Kansas



Wellbeing and the Legal Academy

Author : Caroline Strevens

Publisher : Springer Nature

Page : 145 pages

File Size : 26,30 MB

Release : 2023-02-17

Category : Education

ISBN : 3031206916

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This book provides a novel contribution to the wider bodies of literature on student and academic wellbeing by including a series of rich and nuanced discussions of specific aspects of the wellbeing of legal academics. It contains original research contributions on this topic drawing on insights from law, education and psychology and throws a spotlight on an emerging field of interest. In particular, it focuses attention on the need to understand the implications of workload, communication, competence, and community for academic wellbeing with the collection providing insight as to the amelioration of stress linked to these themes. Reference will be made to the key factors which influence each of these themes, such as the neo-liberal academy, the contours and staffing of the law school, the impact of COVID-19 and the role of values and ethics. Relevant theoretical perspectives relating to these themes, including self-determination theory and the notion of an ethic of care, will also be discussed.



Women, Their Lives, and the Law

Author : Victoria Barnes

Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing

Page : 315 pages

File Size : 17,61 MB

Release : 2023-12-14

Category : Law

ISBN : 1509962107

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This collection of essays honours Rosemary Auchmuty, Professor of Law at the University of Reading, UK. She has fostered the study of women's academic careers and, more politically, advanced progress on gender and equality issues including same-sex marriage and property law. Her research promotes the case of feminist legal history as a way of revealing the place of women and challenging dominant historical narratives that cast them aside. Just as Rosemary's work does, the book seeks to end the marginalisation and exclusion of women in the legal world, by including them. The book begins fittingly with a discussion of Miss Bebb, the woman whose biography Auchmuty deployed to push feminist legal history into the mainstream. It turns then to a discussion of women known and unknown and their struggles within the legal profession offering within those chapters a critical appraisal of the role of history and biography as a methodology. From there it moves to consider feminist perspectives and critiques of the dominant structures of private law. This is followed by chapters that explore those who educate the legal profession within the academy. The chapters, and the collection as a whole, examine areas of law that have a deep significance for women's lives.



How To Include Employability in the Law School

Author : Amanda Millmore

Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing

Page : 327 pages

File Size : 34,3 MB

Release : 2024-03-14

Category : Law

ISBN : 1035302314

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This accessible How To Guide provides practical guidance on how to successfully include employability into the law school. Innovative ideas are shared on how to establish effective independent employability initiatives and embed employability within the law curriculum itself.



What is Legal Education for?

Author : Rachel Dunn

Publisher : Taylor & Francis

Page : 208 pages

File Size : 38,77 MB

Release : 2022-09-30

Category : Law

ISBN : 1000688771

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How we interpret and understand the historical contexts of legal education has profoundly affected how we understand contemporary educational cultures and practices. This book, the result of a Modern Law Review seminar, both celebrates and critiques the lasting impact of Peter Birks’ influential edited collection, Pressing Problems in the Law: Volume 2: What is the Law School for? Published in 1996, his book addresses many critical issues that are hauntingly present in the 21st century, amongst them the impact of globalisation; technological disruption; and the tension inherent in law schools as they seek to balance the competing interest of teaching, research and administration. Yet Birks’ collection misses key issues, too. The role of wellbeing, of emotion or affect, the relation of legal education to education, the status of legal education in what, since his volume, have become the devolved jurisdictions of Northern Ireland, Wales and Scotland – these and others are absent from the research agenda of the book. Today, legal educators face new challenges. We are still recovering from the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on our universities. In 1996 Birks was keen to stress the importance of comparative research within Europe. Today, legal researchers are dismayed at the possibility of losing valuable EU research funding when the UK leaves the EU, and at the many other negative effects of Brexit on legal education. The proposed Solicitors Qualifying Examination takes legal education regulation and professional learning into uncharted waters. This book discusses these and related impacts on our legal educations. As law schools approach an existential crossroads post-Covid-19, it seems timely to revisit Birks’ fundamental question: what are law schools for?



Portraits of Women in International Law

Author : Immi Tallgren

Publisher : Oxford University Press

Page : 610 pages

File Size : 18,23 MB

Release : 2023-04-15

Category : Law

ISBN : 0192638947

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Current histories seem to suggest that men alone have been capable of the development of ideas, analysis, and practice of international law until the 1990s. Is this the case? Or have others been erased from the collective images of this history, including the portrait gallery of notables in international law? Portraits of Women in International Law: New Names and Forgotten Faces? investigates the slow and late inclusion of women in the spheres of knowledge and power in international law. The forty-two textual and visual representations by a diverse team of passionate portraitists represent women and gender non-conforming people in international law from the fourteenth century onwards around the world: individuals and groups who imagined, developed, or contested international law; who earned their living in its institutions; or who, even indirectly, may have changed its course. This rich volume calls for a critical identification of the formal and informal institutional practices, norms, and rituals of (white) masculinities, both in the past and in the research of international law today. By abandoning reductive histories, their biased frames, and tacit assumptions, this work brings previously unseen glimpses of international law and its agents, ideas, causes, behaviour, norms, and social practices into the spotlight.



Doing Justice, Doing Gender

Author : Susan Ehrlich Martin

Publisher : SAGE

Page : 297 pages

File Size : 10,61 MB

Release : 2006-10-27

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 1452236666

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"Martin and Jurik provide a clear body of evidence illuminating the gendered nature of criminal justice occupations. Of the multitude of feminist works on this topic, this is one of the best analyses available." —CRIMINAL JUSTICE REVIEW Doing Justice, Doing Gender: Women in Legal and Criminal Justice Occupations is a highly readable, sociologically grounded analysis of women working in traditionally male dominant justice occupations of law, policing, and corrections. This Second Edition represents not only a thorough update of research on women in these fields, but a careful reconsideration of changes in justice organizations and occupations and their impact on women′s justice work roles over the past 40 years. New to the Second Edition: Introduces a wider range of workplace diversity and experiences: An expanded sociological theoretical framework grasps the interplay of gender, race, ethnicity, and sexual orientation in understanding workplace identities and inequities. Provides a better understanding of the centrality of gender issues to understanding the legal and criminal justice system in general: This edition further connects women′s work experiences to social trends and consequent changes in legal system and in criminal justice agencies. Offers a more international perspective: More material is included on women lawyers, police, and correctional officers in countries outside the U.S. Intended Audience: This is an excellent supplemental text for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses such as Gender & Work; Women and Work; Sociology of Work and Occupations; Women and the Criminal Justice System; and Gender Justice in the departments of Sociology, Criminal Justice, Women′s Studies, and Social Work.



Teaching International Law

Author : Jean-Pierre Gauci

Publisher : Taylor & Francis

Page : 425 pages

File Size : 40,23 MB

Release : 2024-06-26

Category : Law

ISBN : 1040032834

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The practice of teaching international law is conducted in a wide range of contexts across the world by a host of different actors – including scholars, practitioners, civil society groups, governments, and international organisations. This collection brings together a diversity of scholars and practitioners to share their experiences and critically reflect on current practices of teaching international law across different contexts, traditions, and perspectives to develop existing conversations and spark fresh ones concerning teaching practices within the field of international law. Reflecting on the responsibilities of teachers of international law to engage with and confront histories, contemporary crises, and everyday events in their teaching, the collection explores efforts to decenter the teacher and the law in the classroom, opportunities for dialogical and critical approaches to teaching, and the possibilities of co-producing non-conventional pedagogies that question the mainstream underpinnings of international law teaching. Focusing on the tools and techniques used to teach international law to date, the collection examines the teaching of international law in different contexts. Traversing a range of domestic and regional contexts around the world, the book offers insights into both the culture of teaching in particular domestic settings, aswell as the structural challenges and obstacles that arise in terms of who, what, and how international law is taught in practice. Offering a unique window into the personal experiences of a diversity of scholars and practitioners from around the world, this collection aims to nurture conversations about the responsibilities, approaches, opportunities, and challenges of teaching international law.