First Women Lawyers in Great Britain & Br. Empire — London, UK

St. Mary's University Twickenham London

St. Mary’s University Centre for Law & Culture is organizing a series of symposia on First Women Lawyers in Great Britain and the Empire. The next, Pioneers: Those Who Tried and “Failed” and the Quasi-Lawyers, will be held June 20, 2016. Abstracts are due April 8, 2016. See St Mary’s First Women Lawyers Symposia call for papers.

The series:

  • First Women Lawyers: Establishing the known and unknown, Sept. 9, 2015. Abstracts.
  • Pioneers: Those Who Tried and “Failed” and the Quasi-Lawyers, June 20, 2016
  • Individual struggles of the “successful”–Williams, Morrison, Normanton and the rest of the 1922 cohort, 2017.
  • The Road to 1919, 2018.
  • Celebration of the Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act 1919, 2019.
  • Legacy, 2020.

About the author

Reference librarian, University of Washington School of Law