Women in Law: A Bio-Bibliographical Sourcebook

by Rebecca M. Salokar, Mary Volcansek

Overview

Forty-three women who have made major contributions to the law through their work in the legal profession, scholarly legal research, and political activism directed at socio-legal reforms are profiled in this bio-bibliographical sourcebook. The women featured are from countries and regions with a Western legal tradition, including North America, Europe, Israel, Japan, the Philippines, and Africa. Each profile contains extended biographical information and details significant achievements and contributions to the law made by each woman, followed by references.

Forty-three women who have made major contributions to the law through their work in the legal profession, scholarly legal research, and political activism directed at socio-legal reforms are profiled in this bio-bibliographical sourcebook. The women featured are from countries and regions with a Western legal tradition, including North America, Europe, Israel, Japan, the Philippines, and Africa. Each profile contains extended biographical information—their family backgrounds, education, and career development—and their significant achievements and contributions to law. The women featured include a number of those who were path-breakers like Sandra Day O'Connor, the first woman justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, and Bertha Wilson, the first woman to sit on the Canadian Supreme Court. Scholars like Margaret Somerville (Canada) and Beverly Blair Cook (U.S.), and political activists like Helene St Docker (Germany) and Leah Tsemel (Israel) are also included. The introduction to the work presents a comprehensive and historical overview of the role of women as citizens, scholars, lawyers, judges, office holders, and activists, and also provides a review of the scholarship on women in law.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780313294105
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	09/24/1996
Pages:	392
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

REBECCA MAE SALOKAR is Associate Professor of Political Science at Florida International University. She has published on the Office of the Solicitor General of the United States, the roles of congressional legal counsels, church politics in Florida and abortion, the Florida constitutional right to privacy, and gay and lesbian litigation.

MARY L. VOLCANSEK is Professor of Political Science at Florida International University. Her many publications focus on American and European judicial systems especially aspects of behavior, selection and removal, including Judicial Selection: The Cross-Evolution of French and American Practices (Greenwood Press, 1987) and Judicial Misconduct: A Cross National Comparison (1996).

Table of Contents

Introduction by Mary L. Volcansek
Florence Ellinwood Allen by Sarah Wilson
Mary Arden by Donald W. Jackson
Anita Augsburg by Mary L. Volcansek and Luba DeWitt
Suzanne Bastid-Basdevant by Jacqueline Lucienne Lafon
Miriam Ben-Porat by Martin Edelman
Myra Bradwell by Mary L. Volcansek
Beverly Blair Cook by Lee Epstein
Irene R. Cortes by C. Neal Tate
Takako Doi by William B. Cleary
Ruth Bader Ginsburg by Rebecca Mae Salokar
Brenda Marjorie Hale by Donald W. Jackson
Rosalyn Higgins by Donald W. Jackson
Leonilde Iotti by Maria Elisabetta de Franciscis
Barbara Charline Jordan by Cassandra R. Veney
Sylvie Kanigi by Kevin Hill
Carrie Burbanham Kilgore by Greg Casey
Helen Kinnear by Marie Corbett and Doris Corbett
Claire L'Heureux-Dubé by Teresa Scassa
Jutta Limbach by Donald P. Kommers
Burbanita Shelton Matthews by Cynthia Harrison
Beverley McLachlin by C. Lynn Smith
Soia Mentschikoff by Zipporah Batshaw Wiseman
Constance Baker Motley by Gilbert Ware
Emily Ferguson Murphy by John McLaren
Eleanor Holmes Norton by Valerie L. Patterson
Sandra Day O'Connor by Rebecca Mae Salokar and Michael Wilson
Sadako Ogata by David Wessels with Yoshihide Soeya and Masatsugu Naya
Cecilia Muñoz Palma by Lawrence W. Beer
Tamar Pelleg-Sryck by Cheryl A. Rubenberg
Janet Reno by Giselle De Bruno Jamison
Mary Robinson by Jerome O'Callaghan
Flerida Ruth P. Romero by C. Neal Tate
Simone Rozès-Ludwig by Jacqueline Lucienne Lafon
Wiltraut Rupp-von Brünneck by Donald P. Kommers
Helga Seibert by Donald P. Kommers
Elisabeth Selbert by Mary L. Volcansek and Luba DeWitt
Margaret A. Somerville by Lawrence W. Beer
Helene Stöcker by Mary L. Volcansek and Luba DeWitt
Helen Suzman by John Dugard
Leah Tsemel by Cheryl A. Rubenberg
Agathe Uwilingiyimana by Kevin Hill
Simone Veil-Jacob by Jacqueline Lucienne Lafon
Bertha Wilson by Mary Jane Mossman
Appendix
Selected Bibliography
Index

Editorial Reviews

Highlights the family background, education, career development, achievements and contributions of 43 women who were legal practitioners, scholars, educators, or political activists before attitudes toward women in the professions and in the political sphere began to soften some 20 years ago. Includes women from the United States, Canada, Germany, the Philippines, Israel, France, Ireland, the United Kingdom, South Africa, Japan, Italy, Burundi, and Rwanda. The introduction provides some additional history and addresses a few of the problems that inhere in writing about women. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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