Produktdetaljer
Biographical note
Ulrike Schultz is a senior academic in law 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, Emeritus Professor of German Studies at the University of the West of England, Bristol, UK, has worked and published in philosophy, literature and legal sociology.
The strength of this book lies in its wealth of empirical data and stories told. Readers learn a great deal about the workings of organisations and professions as well as of the very different legal systems in the world. A must for scholars of the sociology of law. (Translation of the German original)
- Eva Kocher, Zeitschrift für Rechtssoziologie, Volume 33
<p>The editors have done an admirable job treating a topic of this breadth and complexity in a single work.(...)this volume presents works of sufficient diversity to provide the<br />reader with an impressive cross-section of information.</p>
- Hon. Thadd A. Blizzard, Hastings Women's Law Journal
This book is most likely to appeal to those who want to learn something about female judges and gender diversity within legal systems across the world. It will also interest those who are in gender studies.
- Tara W. Stricko, Political Science, Kennesaw State University., Law and Politics Book Review
Does gender make a difference to the way the judiciary works and should work? Or is gender-blindness a built-in prerequisite of judicial objectivity? If gender does make a difference, how might this be defined? These are the key questions posed in this collection of essays, by some 30 authors from the following countries; Argentina, Cambodia, Canada, England, France, Germany, India, Israel, Italy, Ivory Coast, Japan, Kenya, the Netherlands, the Philippines, South Africa, Switzerland, Syria and the United States. The contributions draw on various theoretical approaches, including gender, feminist and sociological theories.
The book's pressing topicality is underlined by the fact that well into the modern era male opposition to women's admission to, and progress within, the judicial profession has been largely based on the argument that their very gender programmes women to show empathy, partiality and gendered prejudice - in short essential qualities running directly counter to the need for judicial objectivity. It took until the last century for women to begin to break down such seemingly insurmountable barriers. And even now, there are a number of countries where even this first step is still waiting to happen. In all of them, there remains a more or less pronounced glass ceiling to women's judicial careers.
Introduction: Gender and Judging: Overview and Synthesis
Ulrike Schultz and Gisela Shaw
PART 1: PIONEERS AND EMINENT WOMEN JUDGES
1.1. Becoming the First Women Judges in Ontario: Women Lawyers, Gender and the Politics of Judicial Appointment
Mary Jane Mossman
1.2. Profiles in Leadership: Eminent Women Judges in the United States
Elaine Martin
1.3. The Entry and Integration of Women into Judicial Positions in Israel
Eyal Katvan
1.4. First Female Judges in the Weimar Republic in Germany: Reflections on Difference
Marion Röwekamp
PART 2: WOMEN JUDGES' WORK AND CAREERS
2.1. Feminisation of the French 'Magistrature': Gender and Judging in a Feminised Context
Anne Boigeol
2.2. 'I was noticed and I was asked …' Women's Careers in the Judiciary. Results of an empirical study for the Ministry of Justice in Northrhine-Westfalia, Germany
Ulrike Schultz
2.3. Women Judges and Magistrates in Kenya: Challenges, Opportunities and Contributions
Winifred Kamau
2.4. The Impact of Women on the Administration of Justice in Syria and the Judicial Selection Process
Monique C Cardinal
2.5. Skills for Judicial Work: Comparing Women Judges and Women Magistrates
Kathy Mack and Sharyn Roach Anleu
2.6. Professional Stress, Discrimination and Coping Strategies: Similarities and Differences between Female
and Male Judges in Switzerland
Revital Ludewig and Juan LaLlave
PART 3: GENDER PERSPECTIVES IN JUDGING
3.1. Gendered Experiences of a Judge in Germany
Ruth Herz
3.2. Women Judges in the Netherlands
Bregje Dijksterhuis
3.3. Gender and Judging in Traditional and Modern Societies: A Comparison of Two Case Studies (Ivory Coast and Italy)
Maria Rita Bartolomei
3.4. Gender Arguments and Gender Perspective in Legal Judgments in Argentina
Andrea L Gastron, M Angela Amante and Rubén Rodriguez
3.5. Do Women on South Africa's Courts Make a Difference?
Ruth B Cowan
PART 4: GENDERED CONSTRUCTION OF JUDGES
4.1. 'May it Please the Court'. Forming Sexualities as Judicial Virtues in Judicial Swearing-in Ceremonies
Leslie J Moran
4.2. Let History Judge? Gender, Race, Class and Performative Identity: A Study of Women Judges in England and Wales
Hilary Sommerlad
PART 5: FEMINIST JUDGES AND FEMINIST ADJUDICATION
5.1. Must Feminist Judges Self-identify as Feminists?
Beverley Baines
5.2. Justice Marcia Neave: Case Study of a Feminist Judge
Rosemary Hunter
5.3. What's in a Label? Argentine Judges' Reluctance to Call Themselves Feminists
Beatriz Kohen
5.4. A Feminist Adjudication Process: Is There Such a Thing?
Reg Graycar
PART 6: QUOTAS AND DIVERSITY
6.1. Which Judicial Selection Systems Generate the most Women Judges? Lessons from the United States
Sally J Kenney
6.2. Gender Quotas for the Judiciary in England and Wales
Kate Malleson
6.3. Rethinking Judicial Diversity
Erika Rackley
PART 7: GENDER AND JUDICIAL EDUCATION
7.1. Gender and Judicial Education in India
Ann Stewart
7.2. Gender and Judicial Education in Japan
Kayo Minamino
7.3. Engendering the Judiciary—Lessons from the Philippines
Atsuko Miwa
7.4. Gender Training for the Judiciary in Cambodia
Keiko Sawa
7.5. Do German Judges Need Gender Education?
Ulrike Schultz
This book looks at whether or not gender makes a difference to the way the judiciary works or should work.
The contributions are taken from some 30 authors from all over the world including Argentina, Cambodia, Canada, England, France, Germany, India, Israel, Italy, Ivory Coast, Japan, Kenya, the Netherlands, the Philippines, South Africa, Switzerland, Syria and the United States.
The essays draw on various theoretical approaches, including gender, feminist, and sociological theories.
Essential reading for anyone interested in how gender effects the law.
Original research and theory on the relations between law, legal institutions and social processes.
The volumes in this series are eclectic in their disciplines, methodologies and theoretical perspectives, but they all share a strong comparative emphasis. The volumes originate in workshops hosted by the Onati International Institute for the Sociology of Law.
Founding Series Editors:
William L F Felstiner
Eve Darian-Smith
Editorial Board:
Carlos Lugo, Hostos Law School, Puerto Rico
Jacek Kurczewski, Warsaw University, Poland
Marie-Claire Foblets, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Germany
Ulrike Schultz, Fern Universität, Germany
Produktdetaljer
Biographical note
Ulrike Schultz is a senior academic in law 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, Emeritus Professor of German Studies at the University of the West of England, Bristol, UK, has worked and published in philosophy, literature and legal sociology.