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The Admission of Women into the Legal Profession: a Guide to Archival Sources at IALS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 March 2015

Elizabeth Dawson
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Abstract

The article, by Elizabeth Dawson, provides a brief guide to some potential archival sources at IALS for gender based research, focussing particularly on the admission of women to the legal profession after the First World War and beyond. Sources will include the records of legal education, academic and membership organisations and material relating to professional practice. The article also provides guidance to researchers on using the IALS Archive.

Keywords

genderwomenwomen and the lawlegal professionarchiveslegal researchresearch methods
Type
Law, Gender and Sexuality: Sources and Methods in Socio-Legal Research
Information
Legal Information Management , Volume 15 , Issue 1 , March 2015 , pp. 26 - 30
Copyright
Copyright © The Author(s) 2015. Published by British and Irish Association of Law Librarians 

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References

Published Works Consulted and Further Reading

Polden, Patrick. Portia's Progress: Women at the Bar in England, 1919–1939 (2012) International Journal of the Legal Profession, 12(3), 293–338Google Scholar
Dawson, Elizabeth.Archival Sources for Legal Biography at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies. (2014) Legal Information Management, 14(1), 48–53Google Scholar