Women Judges: Appointments, Career Chances and Barriers

The book offers valuable insights by questioning and criticising the status quo, paving the way to a gender equal future in the judiciary. A significant new contribution to international scholarship in the field, this book was originally published as a special issue of the International Journal of the Legal Profession.

Ulrike Schultz is retired senior academic of FernUniversität in Hagen, Germany, specialised in the sociology of the legal professions, legal education, questions of gender and law. She has taken part in and organised many international socio-legal projects. She was President of the Research Committee for the Sociology of Law 2018-2023.

Tabeth Masengu is a Human Rights Lawyer and Socio-Legal Researcher. Her areas of research include the rule of law, gender and judging, governance in Africa, Constitutionalism, human rights, policy reform and intersectional discrimination.

Avrom Sherr is Emeritus Professor at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies in the United Kingdom. He leads the quality assurance of legal aid lawyers in England and Wales. He is the founding editor of the International Journal of the Legal Profession.