Women in the World's Legal Professions
Description:... 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.
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