scholarly journals Women Lawyers and the Struggle for Change in Conflict and Transition

2020 ◽  
pp. 50-72
Author(s):  
Anna Bryson ◽  
Kieran McEvoy
Keyword(s):  
Women Lawyers

Women Lawyers and Governance in the Progressive Era

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carol Nackenoff ◽  
Kathleen Sullivan
Keyword(s):  
Progressive Era ◽  
Women Lawyers

Sisters in Law: Women Lawyers in Modern American History.

1999 ◽  
Vol 85 (4) ◽  
pp. 1621
Author(s):  
Richard Chused ◽  
Virginia G. Drachman
Keyword(s):  
American History ◽  
Women Lawyers

Women Lawyers in the United States

1988 ◽  
Vol 8 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 297-329
Author(s):  
Lelia J. Robinson
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Women Lawyers

Sisters in Law: Women Lawyers in Modern American History

2000 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
pp. 298
Author(s):  
Gwen Hoerr McNamee ◽  
Virginia G. Drachman
Keyword(s):  
American History ◽  
Women Lawyers

Women Lawyers for Social Causes: Professional Careers and Legal Development in Thailand

2021 ◽  
pp. 97-132
Author(s):  
Frank W. Munger ◽  
Peerawich Thoviriyavej ◽  
Vorapitchaya Rabiablok
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Political Development ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
Processes Of Change ◽  
Professional Careers ◽  
Women Lawyers ◽  
Social Cause ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Social Causes

Women lawyers are increasing seen among the leading legal defenders of human rights and social movements in Thailand. Increasing visibility is partly a result of news coverage and social media, but women lawyers activism has far older roots. In this article, we examine two related processes of change that contribute to women’s emergence as leading social cause practitioners. First, we discuss the relationship between Thailand’s legal system and its social and political development since the end of the nineteenth century. Second, we employ career narratives of three women lawyers with innovative practices for social causes as a lens through which to examine how lawyers transform available resources into an identity, law practice, and law. We discuss not only the role of prior generations of women lawyers, connections between influential elites and social cause lawyers, and the founding of a few key organizations within the NGO community, but also the role of the women as architects of their own careers. We conclude that they have become successful by aligning their practices with emerging social movements and progressive bureaucrats, unexpectedly creating professional identities with somewhat different relationships to the rule of law.

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