Equal Justices Initiative - Research
- UK research and publications
- International and comparative research
- Useful links
UK research and publications
- Blackwell, M ‘Old Boys' Networks, Family Connections and the English Legal Profession’ (May 2011) SSRN working paper
- Feenan, D, Applications by Women for Silk and Judicial Office in Northern Ireland, A Report Commissioned by the Commissioner for Judicial Appointments for Northern Ireland, 2005.
- Feenan, D. (ed), 'Women and Judging', Feminist Legal Studies (2009) special issue Vol. 17(1).
- Feenan, D., Women Judges: Judging Gender, Justifying Diversity, (2008) Journal of Law & Society 35(4) 490-519.
- Genn, Hazel The Attractiveness of Senior Judicial Appointment to Highly Qualified Practitioners, Report to the Judicial Executive Board December 2008
- Hale, B. ‘Equality and the Judiciary: Why Should We Want More Women Judges’ [2001] P.L. 489, 489-496.
- Hunter, R 'Submission to the Diversity Panel 2009' [PDF 30kb]-
- Hunter, R ‘Can Feminist Judges Make a Difference?’ (2008) 15 International Journal of the Legal Profession, 7-36.
- Hunter, R ‘Appointment of New Supreme Court Justice – A Missed Opportunity’ The Barrister Magazine May 2010
- Sally Kenney, Gender on the Agenda: How the Paucity of Women Judges Became an Issue. Journal of Politics 70(3): 717-735. 2008.
- Kirby, M., 'A Darwinian Reflection on Values and Appointments in Final National Courts' SLS Annual Seminar, University of Birmingham, November 2009
- Malleson, Kate 'It's time to court women' The Times 31 March 2011
- Malleson K ‘Diversity in the judiciary: The case for Positive Action’ Journal of Law and Society, Volume 36, Number 3, September 2009, pp. 376-402(27)
- Malleson K ‘Rethinking the Merit Principle in the Judicial Appointments Process’ Journal of Law and Society February 2006 pp. 126-140
- Malleson, K 'Gender Equality in 'It's time to court women' the Judiciary: Why Difference Won't Do' (2003) 11 Feminist Legal Studies
- McGlynn, C.M.S. 2002. Strategies for Reforming the English Solicitors' profession: An Analysis of the Business Case for Sex Equality. In Women in the World's Legal Professions. Schultz U & Shaw G Hart.
- McGlynn, C.M.S. 1998. The Woman Lawyer - making the difference. Butterworths
- Paterson, A and Paterson C 'Guarding the Guardians: towards an independent, accountable and diverse senior judiciary' (CentreForum: 2012)
- Paterson, A and Paterson C 'We need to rethink how we define merit for supreme court appointments' The Guardian, 26 March 2012
- Rackley, Erika 'We need a more diverse Supreme Court' The Guardian 29 March 2011
- Rackley, E. Submission to the Lord Chancellor’s Panel of Judicial Diversity [PDF 109kb] September 2009
- Rackley, E. Detailing Judicial Difference. Feminist Legal Studies 2009 17: 11-26.
- Rackley, E. What a Difference Difference Makes: Gendered Harms and Judicial Diversity, International Journal of the Legal Profession 2008. 15: 31-50.
- Rackley, E.Judicial diversity, the woman judge and fairy tale endings. Legal Studies 2007. 27(1): 74-94.
- Rackley, E. 'Difference in the House of Lords'. Social & Legal Studies 2006 15(2): 163-185.
- Rackley, E. Representations of the (Woman) Judge: Hercules, the Little Mermaid, and the vain and naked Emperor. 2002. Legal Studies 22(4): 602-624.
- H Sommerlad et al (2010) Diversity in the Legal Profession in England and Wales: A Qualitative Study of Barriers and Individual Choices, (Funded by the Legal Services Board)
- Hilary Sommerlad, Submission to the Lord Chancellor's Advisory Panel on Judicial Diversity: The top three changes which would promote a more diverse judiciary, 2009
International and comparative research
- Alliance for Justice A Snapshot of Women in the US Judiciary as Three Women Poised to Sit on the Supreme Court of the United States May 2010
- Feenan, D., Judicial Appointments in Ireland in Comparative Perspective, (2008) 1 Judicial Studies Judicial Studies Institute Journal 37-66.
- Nienke Grossman, Sex Representation on the Bench and the Legitimacy of International Criminal Courts, International Criminal Law Review 11 (2011) 643–653
- Rosemary Hunter, ‘The High Price of Success: The Backlash Against Women Judges in Australia’, in E. Sheehy and S. McIntyre (eds), Calling for Change: Women, Law, and the Legal Profession, Ottawa University Press, Ottawa, 2006, 281-301.
- Sundeep Iyer, The Fleeting Benefits of Appointments Commissions for Judicial Gender Equity (January 2011)
- Sally Kenney, (2009) Femocrats and Judicial Selection: Reconceptualizing Social Movement Insiders
- Sally Kenney, Thinking about gender and judging. International Journal of the Legal Profession, 15:1,87-110. 2008.
- Ulrike Schultz and Gisela Shaw (eds) (2003) Women in the World's Legal Professions, Hart, Oñati international series in law and society - no. 8
- Ciara Torres-Spelliscy, Monique Chase and Emma Greenman, Improving Judicial Diversity. Report published by the Brennan Center, New York. This report is based an empirical survey of judicial diversity in US state courts. It found that most judiciaries do not reflect the diversity of their states, and offered ten recommendations for best practices to improve diversity in all the states that appoint judges to the bench.
