First Women Lawyers in Great Britain and
the Empire Symposium
29 June 2018: “The Road to 1919”
Call for Papers
The Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act 1919
heralded women’s long awaited entry to the legal profession. What do we
actually know about that journey? How much of that struggle has been
recorded? Where is it recorded? The ‘First Women Lawyers in Great
Britain and the Empire’ Symposia seek to unite academics and researchers in
this area and explore the journey of those first women lawyers.
The 2018
meeting will celebrate the centenary of the vote and examine its effect on the
passing of the Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act 1919. It will explore the
extent to which it gave impetus to women such as Helena Normanton to make
renewed attempts to join the legal profession in 1918.
The ‘First
Women Lawyers Symposia’ has run successfully for three years and has drawn
papers from England, Scotland, Estonia, Canada and Australia. The 2018
symposium will be held on Friday 29th
June 2018, venue TBC. Submissions are welcomed from those researching
in this area, including anyone with knowledge that will place the struggle for
entry to the legal profession in England and Wales in an international
context. Closing date for submission of abstracts: 23 April 2018.
The timetable for the following symposia
are as follows:
2019 Celebrations:
Symposium: Thursday February 7 2019 to be held at Middle Temple (continuing the theme of the road to 1919 and a celebration of the Act which received Royal Assent on 23 December 1919),
Symposium: Thursday February 7 2019 to be held at Middle Temple (continuing the theme of the road to 1919 and a celebration of the Act which received Royal Assent on 23 December 1919),
Celebration
Dinner at Middle Temple Hall: Saturday 11 January
2020 (centenary of the first women Bar
students’ first dinner)
June 2020 Symposium: ‘Legacy’
June 2021 Symposium:
‘The other women lawyers that history has, at best forgotten, at worst ignored’
17 November 2022 Celebration of the
1922 Call night at Middle Temple.
See also on twitter: @1919lawpioneers
Contact dr. Judith Bourne (St Mary's University, Twickenham)
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