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17 Feminist L. Stud. 1 (2009)

handle is hein.journals/femlst17 and id is 1 raw text is: Fern Leg Stud (2009) 17:1-9 DOI 10.1007/s10691-009-9116-7 Editorial Introduction: Women and Judging Dermot Feenan Published online: 26 February 2009 © Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2009 Increasing scholarly attention is being paid to women and judging. The literature now covers a wide field, only some of which can be referred to here:1 analysis of judicial appointments; the structure, practices and culture of the legal profession (Schultz and Shaw 2003; Resnik 1996); judicial decisions (including both the decisions themselves and their impact, or not, on women, see, e.g. Schneider 2007); whether women judge differently (Malleson 2003); the gendered constitution of law (Graycar 1995); judicial authority (Thornton 1996); and, more recently, the construction of the notion of the judge (Rackley 2002). Empirical, biographical and other narrative studies have revealed important information on women's continuing difficulties, and some successes, in appointment to, and retention in, judicial office. Still, in most parts of the world women continue to be under-represented. Women's low representation in the judiciary has been reported in a number of regions such as Latin America (Formisano and Moghadam 2005) and the Middle There are a number of special issues on women and judging in the United States: Women in the judiciary (1982) Judicature 65(6); Symposium issue: National Association of Women Judges (1984) Golden Gate University Law Review 14(3); Centennial celebration: A tradition of women in the law (1991) New York University Law Review 66(6); Women on the bench: A different voice? (1993) Judicature 77(3); Workshop on judging: Does gender make a difference? (2001) Wisconsin Women's Law Journal 16; see also Symposium: Women, justice and authority (2002) Yale Journal of Law and Feminism 14(2). A number of journals served as conduits for the reports of taskforces on gender bias in the courts, e.g. Report of the gender bias study of the Supreme Judicial Court (1989) Suffolk University Law Review 23(3); The effects of gender in the federal courts: The final report of the Ninth Circuit Gender Bias Task Force (1994) Southern California Law Review 67. See also Gender and judging (2008) International Journal of the Legal Profession 15(1&2). D. Feenan (E) School of Law, University of Ulster, Newtownabbey BT37 OQB, UK e-mail: d.feenan@ulster.ac.uk I Springer

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