Selden's Sister

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Selden's Sister is a collaboration among UK-based academics championing the work of women in legal history, bringing together individuals from a range of fields and areas of expertise. The network aims to foster change in a discipline often regarded as male-dominated, and to celebrate the contributions of the many female scholars now working in it. It celebrates the work of contemporary female legal historians, highlights past contributions of women to legal history, and seeks to keep legal history a lively, friendly, and diverse field of study. It provides networking opportunities and support for people working in legal history, from professors to PhD students, creating a space to share experiences, opportunities, and achievements and to produce research outputs. It seeks to disprove unhelpful presumptions about the field (such as the assumption that female legal historians always write about women, or that writing about women is less valuable work) and to demonstrate the importance of maintaining legal history within UK legal education, with a particular interest in making postgraduate legal history work possible, enjoyable, and successful.

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Founding year

2022

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Society of Legal Scholars (SLS)

The Society of Legal Scholars (SLS) is the learned society for those who teach law in a university or similar institution or who are otherwise engaged in legal scholarship. The SLS has over 2700 mem… read more about Society of Legal Scholars (SLS)

Bristol

Partner Universities

The Open University

University of Bristol

University of Cambridge

University of Exeter

University of Liverpool

University of Oxford