Pioneering Women in Common Law

Pioneering Women in Common 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 common law tradition, a recurring biographical thread across the many common law jurisdictions of England, the Commonwealth and beyond wherever the legal profession first opened to women. Their careers mark a distinct and recurring milestone in the history of the common law profession worldwide, grouped together here as the report itself calls out for this exact subcategory and as the equivalent thread is grouped for the civil law tradition elsewhere in this wave.