Celebrating Women in Legal History : Making and Shaping a Discipline.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Derry, Caroline, editor.

Eldridge, Lorren, editor.

Ireland, Emily, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Law--History.

Law.

Women lawyers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (310 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), 2026.

Place of Publication:

London : Hart Publishing, 2026.

System Details:

text file rdaft

Summary:

Champions the work of women in legal history, and their contributions to both the discipline and feminist activism over nearly two centuries.

Contents:

Intro

Foreword

Acknowledgements

Contents

List of Contributors

1. Selden's Sister and Women in Legal History

PART I: METHODOLOGY AND STUDYING WOMEN IN LEGAL HISTORY

2. Unwritten Stories: Recovering and Writing Women's Legal History

I. Introduction

II. Section 21

III. The Typescript

IV. Making Changes

V. Feminist Legal History

VI. Sliding Doors in Scholarship

VII. Conclusion

3. Missing Mildred Miles

I. Meeting Mildred Miles

II. Mapping Mildred Miles

III. Mistaking Mildred Miles

IV. Mrs Mildred Miles Jaffe

V. Mourning Mildred Miles

PART II: WOMEN LEGAL HISTORIANS IN THE ACADEMY

4. Rights and Duties of Englishwomen: The Life and Work of Erna Reiss (1888-1974), Feminist Legal Historian

II. Erna Reiss (1888 - 1974): Outline Biography

III. Reiss ' Academic Mentors

IV. Erna Reiss ' Political and Feminist Activism

V. Erna Reiss and Eleanor Rathbone

VI. Rights and Duties as Feminist Legal History

VII. Conclusion: Reviews and (Forgotten) Legacy

5. Aere Perennius: The Life and Legacy of Professor Olivia Robinson

II. Part One: Life and Career

III. Part Two: Scholarship

IV. Part Three: Impact - A Case Study on the Inadequacy of Bibliometrics

V. Conclusion

6. The First Women Scholars in Serbian and Yugoslav Legal History at the University of Belgrade Faculty of Law

II. The Study of (Serbian) Legal History at the Faculty and its Significance

III. Ru ž ica Guzina (1914 - 91): The First Woman

IV. Vera Petri ć (1923 - 2007): From History to Practice

V. Ljubica Kandi ć (1925 - 2019): The Only Female Dean of the Law Faculty

VI. Smilja Avramov (1918 - 2018): A Beacon against the Horrors of War

7. Jelena Danilović - The First Woman to Teach Roman Law in Serbia.

I. Introduction

II. Roman Law after the Fall of the Roman Empire

III. Roman Law in Serbia

IV. Women at the Belgrade University Law School

V. An Overview of the Life and Professional Career of Jelena Danilovi ć

VI. Instead of a Conclusion

PART III: WOMEN LEGAL HISTORIANS ON THE PERIPHERY

8. Madge Easton Anderson: Making and Shaping Legal History from Scotland

II. Making History: Margaret Hall and Madge Easton Anderson

III. Shaping Legal History: Poor Man ' s Lawyering

IV. Shaping Legal History: The Soroptimist Movement

V. Shaping Legal History: Doctoral Scholarship and the Influence of Mentorship

VI. Making and Shaping History: Women ' s Lawyering in the Inter-War Years

9. Scotland's Representative: Chrystal Macmillan and Suffragist Legal Historical Practice

II. The Scottish Women Graduates ' Case for Suffrage: Background to Nairn

III. Scottish Women Graduates in the Courts

IV. Campaigning in the Wake of Nairn

V. Macmillan and Feminist Internationalism in Practice

VI. Macmillan and Feminist Diplomacy During the First World War

VII. Relief Work and the Scottish Women ' s Hospitals for Foreign Service (Swhfs)

VIII. Macmillan and Scottish Feminist Internationalisms

IX. Macmillan, Empire and Scottish Feminist Internationalisms

X. Conclusion: Macmillan as Scottish Feminist Diplomat

10. The Marriages of Captain John Campbell of Carrick: How a Wronged Wife Changed English Marriage Law

Bibliography

Index.

ISBN:

1-5099-8388-0

1-5099-8390-2

1-5099-8389-9

9781509983896

OCLC:

1568051001