Ulrike Schultz is a senior academic in law at the FernUniversität Hagen, Germany. She is also head of the law faculty's Teaching and Learning Unit, and Chair of the university's Equal Opportunities Commission. She acts as a practical skills trainer for lawyers in Germany. Gisela Shaw is a Professor of German Studies and Director of Research in the Faculty of Languages and European Studies at the University of the West of England,Bristol.
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 Jörn Westhoff
