Celebrating 100 years since the Sex Discrimination (Removal) Act 1919
The Significance of the Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act 1919
Public lecture for the First Women Lawyers series by Dr Mari Takayanagi
Up until recently the lives of our earliest women members from China, Malaya and Burma remained obscure. However, thanks to the research of Chen Li (Associate Professorial Fellow at Fudan University Law School in Shanghai) the lives of these fascinating women, who include the first Burmese law student and first female barrister, are revealed in these two articles using archival records in China, London and Singapore.
With Thanks to Our Contributors
Dr Judith Bourne – Dean of CILEX Law School, Associate member of Normanton Chambers
Dr Frances Burton – Senior Lecturer, Property and Family Law, Co-Director International Centre for Family Law, Policy and Practice, Editor International Family Law, Policy and Practice
Li Chen – Associate Professorial Fellow, Eastern Scholar Distinguished Professor, Fudan University Law School in Shanghai, China
Charlotte Coleman – PhD Candidate at St Mary’s University researching the first women barristers (1919-1929) and their networks and connections.
Dr Caroline Derr – Senior Lecturer – Open University School of Law
Carrie de Silva – Principal Lecturer – Law and Taxation, Harper Adams University
Liz Goldthorpe – Retired tribunal judge and author
Dr Alana Harris MA/DPhil (Oxon); SFHEA, FRHS – Senior Lecturer in Modern British History, King’s College, University of London
Leslie Howsam, FRSC – Emerita Distinguished University Professor, University of Windsor, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Digital Humanities, Ryerson University, Canada
Dr Caroline Morris – Senior Lecturer in Public Law, Queen Mary University of London
Professor Emerita Mary Jane Mossman – Osgoode Law School, York
Dr Sumita Mukherjee – Senior Lecturer in History, University of Bristol
Ros Wright CB QC – Master of the Bench, Middle Temple
Dr Mari Takanagi – Senior Archivist, Parliamentary Archives
Professor Emerita Margaret Thornton – ANU College of Law, Australian National University
Jane Wynne Willson – Daughter of Theodora Llewellyn Davies, with contributions from other family members
Thanks also to Professor Richard Sorabji and the First 100 Years Project for their generous agreement to allow us to link to the films of Masters Gloster and Butler-Sloss.