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15 Int'l J. Legal Prof. 1 (2008)

handle is hein.journals/injlepro15 and id is 1 raw text is: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF THE LEGAL PROFESSION, Routledge VOL. 15, NOS. 1-2, MARCH-JULY 2008 Editorial: Gender and judging ULRIKE SCHULTZ & GISELA SHAW Does gender matter in judging? And if so, in what way? Who are the women judges? How did they get into office? How do they organise and live their lives? What are their professional careers? What constitutes a good judge? And finally: do women judge dif- ferently from men (or even better)?' These are the questions which a Collaborative Research Network (CRN) of the Law and Society Association (LSA) on 'Gender and Judging' has put on its agenda. Work started in 2006 at the LSA Conference in Baltimore, and has since been continued vigorously at a number of major subsequent events: a conference for women lawyers in Latin America organised by Beatriz Kohen in Buenos Aires in April 2007; the international socio-legal conference in Berlin in July in 2008 organised jointly by the LSA, the Research Committee on Sociology of Law (RCSL) and national socio-legal organisations (where five panels presented a total of 18 papers); the LSA conference in Montreal in May 2008; the meeting of the Working Group for the Comparative Study of Legal Professions in Berder, France, in June 2008; and, most recently, the RCSL Conference in Milano in July 2008. The CRN's future plans include a special workshop on gender and judging, to be held at the International Institute for the Sociology of Law in Ofiati, Spain, in June 2009.2 In short, 'Gender and Judging' has emerged as an issue of considerable and lasting interest to socio-legal scholars. The 'Gender and Judging' project, a truly international venture with contributors from around the world, builds on work of the Women and Gender in the Legal Profession Group (a sub-group of the RCSL Working Group on Legal Professions). This Group was established in 1994 and can, by now, point to a range of publications, most prominently the collection Women in the World Legal Professions3 and a special issue of this journal.4 In addition, many articles in books and journals have been inspired by the work of the group. The CRN on 'Gender and Judging' focusses on the following areas: * gender aspects of judicial education and training; * gender aspects of selection and careers; * women judges at work (job satisfaction, stress, coping strategies); * gendered construction of judges in the media; * gendered judging; * judging in family courts; ISSN 0969-5958 print/ISSN 1469-9257 online/08/1-20001-5 ( 2008 Taylor & Francis DOI: 10.1080/09695950802536166