Women in the World's Legal Professions. (2003)

• Record Type: Book
• Other Names: Schultz, Ulrike; Shaw, Gisela
• Contents: Half Title Page -- Half Title verso -- Title Page -- Title verso -- Contents -- Preface -- List of Contributors -- Introduction: Women in the World's Legal Professions: Overview and Synthesis -- 1. Gender and the Profession: An American Perspective -- 2. The Effect of Lawyer Gender on Client Perceptions of Lawyer Behaviour -- 3. Gender in Context: Women in Family Law -- 4. Barriers to Gender Equality in the Canadian Legal Establishment -- 5. Engendering the Legal Profession: the Education Strategy -- 6. Women in the Legal Profession: The Australian Profile. 7. Women Barristers and Gender Difference -- 8. New Zealand Women Lawyers at the End of the Twentieth Century -- 9. The Status of Women Lawyers in the United Kingdom -- 10. Strategies for Reforming the English Solicitor's Profession: An Analysis of the Business Case for Sex Equality -- 11. Prospects for Parity: the Position of Women in the Judiciary in England and Wales -- 12. Can Women Lawyer Differently? A Perspective from the UK -- 13. The Remains of the Day: The Women Law Professors Project -- 14. Lawyers in the Courtroom: Gender, Trials and Professional Performance in Israel. 15. The Status of Women Lawyers in Germany -- 16. Women Lawyers in Germany -- Perception and Construction of Femininity -- 17. Women Lawyers in the New Federal States of Germany: from Quantity to Quality? -- 18. Women in the Dutch Legal Profession (1950-2000) -- 19. Choices in Context: Life Histories of Women Lawyers in the Netherlands -- 20. Women Lawyers in Poland under the Impact of Post-1989 Transformation -- 21. Women Jurists in Finland at the Turn of the Century: Breakthrough or Intermezzo? 22. Male Strategies in the Face of the Feminisation of a Profession: the Case of the French Judiciary -- 23. Professional Body and Gender Difference in Court: the Case of the First (Failed) Woman Lawyer in Modern Italy -- 24. Women in the Judiciary: a Perspective from Brazil -- 25. Lee Tai-Young (1914-1998): The Pioneer Woman Lawyer of South Korea -- 26. Women Lawyers in Japan: Contradictory Factors in Status.
• Publisher Details: Oxford : Hart Pub
• Publication Date: 2003
• Extent: 1 online resource (544 pages)
• Subjects: 340.082; Women lawyers; Women lawyers; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781841133195; 1841133191; 1847312071; 9781847312075
• Notes: Note: Print version record.
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