Women in the World's Legal Professions

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.

About the author

Ulrike Schultz is a retired Senior Academic at the FernUniversität in Hagen, Germany. She heads the International Working Group on the Comparative Study of Legal Professions and has been a member of the Oñati International Institute for the Sociology of Law Governing Board since 2006.Gisela Shaw is Emeritus Professor of German at the University of the West of England, Bristol, UK.

Product details

• Authors: Ulrike Schultz, Gisela Shaw
• Assisted by: Rosemary Hunter (Editor), David Nelken (Editor), Ulrike Schultz (Editor), Gisela Shaw (Editor)
• Publisher: Hart Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9781841133201
• ISBN: 978-1-84113-320-1
• No. of pages: 544
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 27 mm
• Series: Onati International Series in Law and Society; Onati International Series in; Onati International Series in Law and Society; Onati International Series in; Oñati International Series in Law and Society; Oñati International Law and So
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law