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Introduction: Women in the World's Legal Professions: Overview and Synthesis - Ulrike Schultz PART 1. WOMEN LAWYERS IN THE COMMON LAW WORLD 1. Gender and the Profession: An American Perspective - Deborah Rhode 2. The Effect of Lawyer Gender on Client Perceptions of Lawyer Behaviour - William Felstiner et al 3. Gender in Context: Women in Family Law - Lynn Mather 4. Barriers to Gender Equality in the Canadian Legal Establishment - Fiona M Kay and Joan Brockman 5. Engendering the Legal Profession: The Education Strategy - Mary Jane Mossman 6. Women in the Legal Profession: The Australian Profile - Rosemary Hunter 7. Women Barristers and Gender Difference in Australia - Rosemary Hunter 8. New Zealand Women Lawyers at the End of the Twentieth Century - Georgina Murray 9. The Status of Women Lawyers in the United Kingdom - Clare MS McGlynn 10. Strategies for Reforming the English Solicitors' Profession: An Analysis of the Business Case for Sex Equality - Clare MS McGlynn 11. Prospects for Parity: The Position of Women in the Judiciary in England and Wales - Kate Malleson 12. Can Women Lawyer Differently? A Perspective from the UK - Hilary Sommerlad 13. The Remains of the Day: The Women Law Professors Project - Celia Wells 14. Lawyers in the Courtroom: Gender,Trials and Professional Performance in Israel - Bryna Bogoch PART 2. WOMEN LAWYERS IN THE CIVIL LAW WORLD 15. The Status of Women Lawyers in Germany - Ulrike Schultz 16. Women Lawyers in Germany: Perception and Construction of Femininity - Ulrike Schultz 17. Women Lawyers in the New Federal States of Germany: From Quantity to Quality? - Gisela Shaw 18. Women in the Dutch Legal Profession (1950-2000) - Leny E de Groot-van Leuwen 19. Choices in Context: Life Histories of Women Lawyers in the Netherlands - Heleen FP Ietswaart 20. Women Lawyers in Poland under the Impact of Post-1989 Transformation - Ma?gorzata Fuszara 21. Women Jurists in Finland at the Turn of the Century: Breakthrough or Intermezzo? - Harriet Silius 22. Male Strategies in the Face of the Feminisation of a Profession: The Case of the French Judiciary - Anne Boigeol 23. Professional Body and Gender Difference in Court: The Case of the First (Failed) Woman Lawyer in Modern Italy - Vittorio Olgiati 24. Women in the Judiciary: A Perspective from Brazil - Eliane Botelho Junqueira 25. Lee Tai-Young (1914-1998): The Pioneer Woman Lawyer of South Korea - Haesook Kim 26. Women Lawyers in Japan: Contradictory Factors in Status - Yuriko Kaminaga and Jorn Westhoff

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