Book Description

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.