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Gender and Judicial Education: Raising Gender Awareness of Judges book cover

1st Edition

Gender and Judicial Education Raising Gender Awareness of Judges

Edited By Ulrike Schultz, T. Brettel Dawson, Gisela Shaw Copyright 2017
148 Pages
by Routledge

148 Pages
by Routledge

148 Pages
by Routledge
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Judicial Education has greatly expanded in common law countries in the past 25 years. More recently it has become a core component in judicial reform programs in developing countries with gender attentiveness as an element required by donor agencies. In civil law jurisdictions judges´ schools have long played a role in the formation of the career judiciary with a focus on entry to the judicial... Read more

Introduction: Gender and judicial education
T. Brettel Dawson, Ulrike Schultz & Gisela Shaw

1. Judicial education on social context and gender in Canada: principles, process and lessons learned
T. Brettel Dawson

2. Neglect of gender questions at the vocational stage of judicial education in Uganda
Maureen Owor & Harriet D. Musoke

3. Introducing gender training in judicial education in Japan to support the judiciary
Kayo Minamino

4. Japanese judicial education: working toward gender equality in the judiciary
Chihara Watanabe

5. Gender stereotypes and attitudes within the judiciary of Bosnia and Herzegovina: a case for increased awareness and education
Heather Huhtanen & Majda Halilović

6. Gender training for the judiciary in Argentina
Beatriz Kohen

7. Raising gender awareness of judges – elements for judicial education in Germany
Ulrike Schultz

8. Judicial education on ‘gender awareness’ in Australia
John Basten

9. Without fear or favour, affection or ill will: addressing gender bias in NSW judicial education
Kate Lumley

Biography

Ulrike Schultz is retired Senior Academic at the FernUniversität in Hagen, Germany. She specializes in questions of gender and law, the sociology of the legal profession, and didactics and professional communication. She has taken part in many international socio-legal projects, and conducted large empirical studies on women lawyers and judges.

T. Brettel Dawson is an Associate Professor in the Department of Law and Legal Studies, Carleton University; Ottawa, Canada. She was associated with Canada’s National Judicial Institute between 1999-2016 and was its Academic Director and Director of Education. She is a past Co-editor of the Canadian Journal of Women and the Law.

Gisela Shaw is Emeritus Professor in German Studies, and has worked in philosophy, literature and legal sociology. She was awarded a personal chair at the University of the West of England (Bristol, UK), where she held the post of Director of Research for Modern Languages and European Studies.

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