Women, Their Lives, and the Law

Victoria Barnes is Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory in Frankfurt, Germany. Nora Honkala is Lecturer in Law at the University of Reading, UK. Sally Wheeler is Professor of Law and VC Designate at Birkbeck, University of London, UK.

1. The Recovery of a Rising Star: Miss Bebb – Broken Biography, Judith Bourne (St Mary’s University, UK)
2. Women Jurists Under the Swastika, Ulrike Schultz (FernUniversität, Germany)
3. Beyond Firsts: Feminist Biography and Early Women Barristers, Caroline Derry (Open University, UK)
4. Anna van Zwanenberg – A Life History, Anonymous
5. Gender, Feminism and Unsung Workers: The Early Years of the Law Centres Movement 1970-1980, Marie Burton (University of Oxford, UK) and Linda Mulcahy (University of Oxford, UK)
6. Rosemary Auchmuty – Doing Feminist Legal Biography, Fiona Cownie (University of London, UK)
7. Spinsters, Goblins and Contract, Sally Wheeler (Australian National University, Australia)
8. The Heroines, the Underdogs, and Everything In-between: Injecting a Feminist Approach into Family Law History, Sharon Thompson (Cardiff University, UK)
9. Change, Challenge and Resistance in Family Law, Felicity Kaganas (Brunel University, UK) and Alison Diduck (University College London, UK)
10. Relationship Recognition: Feminism, Law, and Transformation, Susan Boyd (University of British Columbia, Canada) and Claire Young (University of British Columbia, Canada)
11. Until Marriage Do Us Part: Women Teachers and the Marriage Bar in the 1920s, Harriet Samuels (University of Westminster, UK)
12. Women and Publishing in Family and Property Law Journals, Victoria Barnes (Queen’s University Belfast, UK) and Nora Honkala (University of Reading, UK)
13. Locating Feminist Scholars and Scholarship in the Legal Academy, Rosemary Hunter (University of Kent, UK)
14. Auchmuty, Legal Education and Equality, Lisa Webley (University of Birmingham, UK)