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Hilary Sommerlad(U.K.) |
| Hilary Sommerlad is a Senior Lecturer in Law at Leeds
Metropolitan University. She has a degree in History from Cambridge University and a
D. Phil in International Politics from York University. She is also a qualified
teacher. She worked as a researcher on various projects and gained a wide
experience of lecturing. In 1984 she left York University, where she had taught
politics and women's studies, to re-train as a solicitor. After qualifying as a solicitor she worked in general practice, specializsing in criminal and family law. She then returned to academic work in 1990, in order to direct a research project, commissioned by the Law Society, on women solicitors. Since then, in addition to teaching criminal and public law and jurisprudence, she has continued to be involved in research and writing. She is a regular contributor to conferences on the law and the legal profession, legal aid, and women and the law. Her publications include "The Myth of Feminisation: Women and Cultural Change in the Legal Profession" International Journal of the Legal Profession 1994 1/1; "Managerialism and the Legal Profession: A New Professional Paradigm" International Journal of the Legal Profession 1995 2/3; "Criminal Legal Aid Reforms and the Restructuring of Legal Professionalism" in R. Young & D. Wall (eds.) Access to Criminal Justice, Blackstone Press, 1996; "The Legal Labour Market and the Training Needs of Women Returners" Journal of Vocational Education and Training 1997 49/1; "The Gendering of the Professional Subject: Commitment, Choice and Social Closure in the Legal Profession" in C. McGlynn (ed.), Legal Feminisms Dartmouth, 1998; and Gender, Choice and Commitment: Women Solicitors and the Struggle for Equal Status, Ashgate, 1998 (with Peter Sanderson). She has had a longstanding interest in Legal Aid, and from 1995-96 piloted a comparative, qualitative study of client experiences of the services they received from Law Centres Law Firms. Following on from this, she directed a qualitative research project into client and practitioner perspectives on quality, funded by the Law Society (1997-8). The report of this research: Legally Aided Clients and their Solicitors: Qualitative Perspectivesd on Auality and Legal Aid (with David Walls), is due to be published in the Law Society's RRPU series. She is a member of a working party on Ethics and New Fee Arrangements (Institute of Advanced Legal Studies), and has just received a Nuffield Foundation grant to carry out a qualitative study of block contracting. |
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