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Law and Justice in the 1950s: Notes on contributors

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table of contents
  1. Cover
  2. Series
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Notes on contributors
  7. Introduction
  8. 1. Shaking up the Savoy
  9. 2. The Great London Smog of 1952: its consequences and contemporary relevance
  10. 3. Direct line to Beeching and beyond? The failure of the 1950s railway modernisation plan
  11. 4. Professor Gower, complacent academics and legal education
  12. 5. A university in (or of) Wales? Vaisey’s folly and St David’s College, Lampeter
  13. 6. Radio, The Listener and The Times: lessons from the 1950s in the public understanding of law
  14. 7. Divorce law reform and feminism in the 1950s
  15. 8. Mrs Gladys Hutchinson, Lord Upjohn and the case of the bankrupt ‘spendthrift … ne’er-do-well and … waster’
  16. 9. The Wolfenden Report, homosexuality and women
  17. Index

Notes on contributors

Rosemary Auchmuty is Professor of Law Emerita at the University of Reading, UK, and Senior Associate Research Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London.

Fiona Cownie is Professor of Law Emerita at Keele University, UK, and Senior Associate Research Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London.

Caroline Derry is Professor of Feminism, Law and History at the Open University and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

Sue Farran is Professor of Comparative and Plural Law at Newcastle University, UK. Between 2021 and 2024 she was an AHRC-funded Research Fellow at the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, London.

Emma Jones is a Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Sheffield and General Editor of The Law Teacher journal.

Simon Lee is Emeritus Professor of Jurisprudence at Queen’s University Belfast.

Richard Gwynedd Parry is Professor of Law and Welsh at Swansea University. He is a barrister of Gray’s Inn, a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales.

John Tribe is a Senior Lecturer in Law at the School of Law and Social Justice, University of Liverpool and an Academic Associate at Exchange Chambers.

Sally Wheeler is Vice-Chancellor of Birkbeck University of London and Honorary Professor of Law at the Australian National University.

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