Pioneering Women in Civil Law

Pioneering Women in Civil Law gathers the jurists remembered as the first woman admitted to the bar, the first female judge, or the first female law graduate in their own country's civil law tradition, a recurring biographical thread across dozens of countries wherever a civil law jurisdiction first opened the legal profession to women. Spanning Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, China, Brazil, Chile, Panama, Costa Rica, Korea, Iran, Mauritania, the Philippines, Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq, the Maldives, Bahrain and Indonesia among others, their careers mark a distinct and recurring milestone in the history of the civil law profession worldwide, grouped together here as the report itself groups the equivalent thread of pioneering women elsewhere in this wave.