Trailblazers III: Süreyya Ağaoğlu the First Woman Lawyer of Turkey

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sevgi Çetin
Keyword(s):  
Woman Lawyer

Book Review: In the Footsteps of Ethel Benjamin by Janet November

2010 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Caroline Morris
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Legal Profession ◽  
Private Life ◽  
Opening Up ◽  
Woman Lawyer

This article is a book review of Janet November In the footsteps of Ethel Benjamin, New Zealand's first woman lawyer (Victoria University Press / Law Foundation, Wellington, 2009) 260 + xi pages, $50. Morris describes the book as the biography of a remarkable woman who was not only the first woman lawyer in New Zealand, but also a "poster girl" for proponents of opening up the legal profession to women in England. Morris notes that Benjamin's achievements still remind the reader of the work that needs to be done for women in law. However, the private life of Benjamin is difficult to decipher from this book due to a lack of private papers kept by Benjamin. The article concludes that in Janet November's book, we have a fitting testament to the achievements and legacy of Ethel Benjamin.

scholarly journals Behaviorally spontaneous confabulation in limbic encephalitis: The roles of reality filtering and strategic monitoring

2010 ◽  
Vol 16 (6) ◽  
pp. 995-1005 ◽  
Author(s):  
LOUIS NAHUM ◽  
RADEK PTAK ◽  
BÉATRICE LEEMANN ◽  
PATRICE LALIVE ◽  
ARMIN SCHNIDER
Keyword(s):  
Limbic Encephalitis ◽  
False Memories ◽  
High Sensitivity ◽  
Physiological Mechanisms ◽  
Thought Control ◽  
Professional Obligations ◽  
Strategic Monitoring ◽  
Autoimmune Limbic Encephalitis ◽  
Retrieval Monitoring ◽  
Woman Lawyer

AbstractBehaviorally spontaneous confabulation is characterized by a confusion of reality evident in currently inappropriate acts that patients justify with confabulations and in disorientation. Here, we describe a 38-year-old woman lawyer hospitalized because of non-herpetic, presumably autoimmune, limbic encephalitis. For months, she considered herself at work and desperately tried to respect her falsely believed professional obligations. In contrast to a completely erroneous concept of reality, she did not confabulate about her remote personal past. In tasks proposed to test strategic retrieval monitoring, she produced no confabulations. As expected, she failed in tasks of reality filtering, previously shown to have high sensitivity and specificity for behaviorally spontaneous confabulation and disorientation: she failed to suppress the interference of currently irrelevant memories and she had deficient extinction capacity. The observation underscores the special status of behaviorally spontaneous confabulation among confabulatory phenomena and of reality filtering as a thought control mechanism. We suggest that different processes may underlie the generation of false memories and their verbal expression. We also emphasize the need to present theories of confabulation together with experimental tasks that allow one to empirically verify the theories and to explore underlying physiological mechanisms. (JINS, 2010, 16, 995–1005.)

The Invisible Bar: The Woman Lawyer in America, 1638 to the Present

1988 ◽  
Vol 93 (1) ◽  
pp. 223
Author(s):  
Penina Migdal Glazer ◽  
Karen Berger Morello
Keyword(s):  
Woman Lawyer ◽  
The Invisible

scholarly journals Shakespeare in Chinese Cinema

2013 ◽  
Vol 10 (25) ◽  
pp. 71-81
Author(s):  
Hui Wu
Keyword(s):  
Motion Pictures ◽  
The Other ◽  
Chinese Cinema ◽  
Financial Success ◽  
Specific Time ◽  
Merchant Of Venice ◽  
The Merchant Of Venice ◽  
Story Character ◽  
Woman Lawyer ◽  
Time Culture

Shakespeare’s plays were first adapted in the Chinese cinema in the era of silent motion pictures, such as A Woman Lawyer (from The Merchant of Venice, 1927), and A Spray of Plum Blossoms (from The Two Gentlemen of Verona, 1931). The most recent Chinese adaptations/spinoffs include two 2006 films based on Hamlet. After a brief review of Shakespeare’s history in the Chinese cinema, this study compares the two Chinese Hamlets released in 2006—Feng Xiaogang’s Banquet and Hu Xuehua’s Prince of the Himalayas to illustrate how Chinese filmmakers approach Shakespeare. Both re-invent Shakespeare’s Hamlet story and transfer it to a specific time, culture and landscape. The story of The Banquet takes place in a warring state in China of the 10th century while The Prince is set in pre-Buddhist Tibet. The former as a blockbuster movie in China has gained a financial success albeit being criticised for its commercial aesthetics. The latter, on the other hand, has raised attention amongst academics and critics and won several prizes though not as successful on the movie market. This study examines how the two Chinese Hamlet movies treat Shakespeare’s story in using different filmic strategies of story, character, picture, music and style.

Growth and Transition

2020 ◽  
pp. 117-133
Author(s):  
Mary E. Adkins
Keyword(s):  
Black Woman ◽  
Leadership Models ◽  
Close Friendship ◽  
Bar Association ◽  
Woman Lawyer

As Chesterfield Smith’s firm mushroomed, it advocated hiring women and minorities. This effort did not always go smoothly; many partners were old-guard southerners who dismissed the need to diversify. Smith often had to champion his hires, and began a pattern of having a junior associate, usually a woman, work closely with him for a year or two to assist, learn, and gain contacts and experience. Two of these “Chesterfield girls” were Martha Barnett, the firm’s first woman lawyer, who would go on to become president of the American Bar Association, and Marilyn Holifield, who would become the firm’s first black woman partner. Smith decided to relinquish management of the firm in his sixties, and a period of several years of bumpy leadership models and conflict among partners ensued. Smith did not keep his hands off but often dipped back in to settle disputes or to stir the pot. Smith, still active in the ABA, began a close friendship with then-professor Ruth Bader Ginsburg through ABA activities.

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