Legal Life-Writing

Linda Mulcahy is a Professor of Law at the London School of Economics and Political Science, London. She is the author or editor of several books including Legal Architecture: Justice, Due Process and the Place of Law (2011).David Sugarman is a Professor of Law at Lancaster University Law School, UK. He is the author and editor of 18 books, has published articles in The Guardian and The Times, and is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

• 1. Introduction: Legal Life Writing and Marginalized Subjects and Sources (Linda Mulcahy and David Sugarman) 2. From Legal Biography to Legal Life Writing: Broadening Conceptions of Legal History and Socio-legal Scholarship (David Sugarman) 3. Recovering Lost Lives: Researching Women in Legal History (Rosemary Auchmuty)4. Watching Women: What Illustrations of Courtroom Scenes Tell Us about Women and the Public Sphere in the Nineteenth Century (Linda Mulcahy)5. Judicial Pictures as Legal Life-writing Data and a Research Method (Leslie J. Moran)6. Ivor Jennings's Constitutional Legacy beyond the Occidental-Oriental Divide (Mara Malagodi)7. The United Kingdom's First Woman Law Professor: An Archerian Analysis (Fiona Cownie)8. Judah Benjamin: Marginalized Outsider or Admitted Insider? (Catharine MacMillan)