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• Introduction : The first women lawyers
• ch. 1. American pioneers : the first women lawyers
• ch. 2. Women lawyers in Canada : becoming lawyers "on the same terms as men"
• ch. 3. "Sound women" and legal work : the first women in law in Britain
• ch. 4. Colonies of the British Empire : the first women lawyers in New Zealand
• ch. 5. The Empire and British India : the first Indian women "in law"
• ch. 6. European connections : women in law and the role of Louis Frank
• Conclusion : Reflecting on the first women lawyers.

This comparative study explores the lives of some of the women who first initiated challenges to male exclusivity in the legal professions in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. Their challenges took place at a time of considerable optimism about progressive societal change, including new and expanding opportunities for women, as well as a variety of proposals for reforming law, legal education, and standards of legal professionalism. By situating women's claims for admission to the bar within this reformist context in different jurisdictions, the study examines the intersection of historical ideas about gender and about legal professionalism at the turn of the twentieth century. In exploring these systemic issues, the study also provides detailed examinations of the lives of some of the first women lawyers in six jurisdictions: the United States, Canada, Britain, New Zealand and Australia, India, and western Europe. In exploring how individual women adopted different legal arguments in litigated cases, or devised particular strategies to overcome barriers to professional work, the study assesses how shifting and contested ideas about gender and about legal professionalism shaped women's opportunities and choices, as well as both support for and opposition to their claims. As a comparative study of the first women lawyers in several different jurisdictions, the book reveals how a number of quite different women engaged with ideas of gender and legal professionalism at the turn of the twentieth century.
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• Introduction: Women in the World's Legal Professions: Overview and Synthesis - Ulrike Schultz
• PART 1. WOMEN LAWYERS IN THE COMMON LAW WORLD
• 1. Gender and the Profession: An American Perspective - Deborah Rhode
• 2. The Effect of Lawyer Gender on Client Perceptions of Lawyer Behaviour - William Felstiner et al
• 3. Gender in Context: Women in Family Law - Lynn Mather
• 4. Barriers to Gender Equality in the Canadian Legal Establishment - Fiona M Kay and Joan Brockman
• 5. Engendering the Legal Profession: The Education Strategy - Mary Jane Mossman
• 6. Women in the Legal Profession: The Australian Profile - Rosemary Hunter
• 7. Women Barristers and Gender Difference in Australia - Rosemary Hunter
• 8. New Zealand Women Lawyers at the End of the Twentieth Century - Georgina Murray
• 9. The Status of Women Lawyers in the United Kingdom - Clare MS McGlynn
• 10. Strategies for Reforming the English Solicitors' Profession: An Analysis of the Business Case for Sex Equality - Clare MS McGlynn
• 11. Prospects for Parity: The Position of Women in the Judiciary in England and Wales - Kate Malleson
• 12. Can Women Lawyer Differently? A Perspective from the UK - Hilary Sommerlad
• 13. The Remains of the Day: The Women Law Professors Project - Celia Wells
• 14. Lawyers in the Courtroom: Gender, Trials and Professional Performance in Israel - Bryna Bogoch
• PART 2. WOMEN LAWYERS IN THE CIVIL LAW WORLD
• 15. The Status of Women Lawyers in Germany - Ulrike Schultz
• 16. Women Lawyers in Germany: Perception and Construction of Femininity - Ulrike Schultz
• 17. Women Lawyers in the New Federal States of Germany: From Quantity to Quality? - Gisela Shaw
• 18. Women in the Dutch Legal Profession (1950-2000) - Leny E de Groot-van Leuwen
• 19. Choices in Context: Life Histories of Women Lawyers in the Netherlands - Heleen FP Ietswaart
• 20. Women Lawyers in Poland under the Impact of Post-1989 Transformation - Ma?gorzata Fuszara
• 21. Women Jurists in Finland at the Turn of the Century: Breakthrough or Intermezzo? - Harriet Silius
• 22. Male Strategies in the Face of the Feminisation of a Profession: The Case of the French Judiciary - Anne Boigeol
• 23. Professional Body and Gender Difference in Court: The Case of the First (Failed) Woman Lawyer in Modern Italy - Vittorio Olgiati
• 24. Women in the Judiciary: A Perspective from Brazil - Eliane Botelho Junqueira
• 25. Lee Tai-Young (1914-1998): The Pioneer Woman Lawyer of South Korea - Haesook Kim
• 26. Women Lawyers in Japan: Contradictory Factors in Status - Yuriko Kaminaga and Jorn Westhoff.
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Women lawyers, less than a century ago still almost a contradiction in terms, have come to stay. Who are they? Where are they? What impact have they had on the profession that had for so long been a bastion of male domination? These are key questions asked in this first comprehensive study of women in the world's legal professions. Answers are based on both quantitative and qualitative analyses, using a variety of conceptual frameworks. 26 contributions by 25 authors present and evaluate the situation of women in the legal profession in both common and civil law countries in the developed world. 15 countries from four continents are covered: the United States of America, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, England, Israel, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, Finland, France, Italy, Brazil, Korea, and Japan. The focus ranges from judges and public prosecutors, to law professors, lawyers (attorneys), notaries and company lawyers. National differences are clearly in evidence, but so are common features cutting across national boundaries. Experience of glass ceilings and revolving doors is as widespread and as real as success stories of women lawyers pursuing their own projects.
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Tenacious young lawyer Julie Chen brings her sister Eva on board as a translator in a risky legal battle with international ramifications. Leading a class action exposing an American tech giant's involvement with the Chinese government's internet firewall, Golden Shield, they must put their differences aside to confront censorship, mass surveillance, corporate greed and their own complicated past. Loyalty, family and language are tested in this Melbourne Theatre Company NEXT STAGE Original production. Commissioned through MTC's NEXT STAGE Writers' Program with the support of the Playwrights Giving Circle Donors, The Ian Potter Foundation, Naomi Milgrom Foundation, The Myer Foundation, Malcolm Robertson Foundation and The University of Melbourne.
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• Introduction / by Julie R. Rubin
• Against all odds : Maryland's earliest women attorneys / by Lynne A. Battaglia
• Etta Maddox : an eternal advocate for Maryland's women, from admission to the bar to access to the ballot / by Michelle R. Mitchell
• The role of political and social movements on women's entry into the legal profession in Maryland, 1902-1920 / by Jane C. Murphy
• Women lawyers in community, 1920-1940 / by Lynne A. Battaglia
• African American women admitted to the bar in Maryland, 1946-1974 : four profiles in public calling / by Phoebe A. Haddon
• The impact of mentoring and other influences on the career development of women lawyers / by Diane O. Leasure
• In their own words : oral histories of Maryland's women lawyers / compiled by Evelyn C. Lombardo, Brett Joann Jackson, Kathleen M. McDonald, and Denise Shaffer.