Common sense would suggest that those seeking to challenge government and other powerful interests in society are likely to be 'one-shotters' and therefore disadvantaged in the legal system. Law Schools Legal academics have more sources of information, more places to publish, and more exciting topics to write about than they have ever had before. At the same time, law schools are subjected to increasing amounts of surveillance in the name of quality control and accountability. This panel will be specially interested in changes in the relationships between the judiciary on the one hand and the general public, the government, the prosecution or the bar on the other. Professor Marlena Le Brun, Visiting Associate Professor, School of Law, City University, Hong Kong.
Globalization operates as a homogenizing force.
At first glance the challenges of diversity politics seem to operate in different and quite opposed directions. In most Western countries women had been excluded from the legal profession till the beginning of the century. In the first decades their numbers rose very slowly. Only in the past twenty years the increase gained in rapid speed. The aim is to discuss and analyse the situation of women in legal education and practice in the light of the overall changes of the profession.