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It's Harder in Heels: Essays by Women Lawyers Achieving Work-Life Balance
The book contains essays by and about women lawyers: stories about women practicing (or choosing not to practice) law, about hitting the glass ceiling, about amazing lawyer-mentors, about professional achievements, about personal and professional hardships, about the stress of juggling multiple roles, about meeting the demands of work and family, about... More

Thinking Like a Lawyer: Essays on Legal History and General History for John Crook on His Eightieth Birthday (Mnemosyne, Bibliotheca Classica Batava Supplementum) (Mnemosyne Supplements)
This is an exploration of the law and life of Rome - in which contributors respond to John Crook's injunction to "think like lawyers" by ranging as far as Ancient Greece, Ancient Persia and modern Denmark to expound their themes and draw comparisons. An opening section focuses on civil law, more or less... More

Sharing the Pants: Essays on Work-Life Balance by Men Married to Lawyers
Work-life balance is not just a woman's issue. Both men and women struggle to balance work and personal lives. This book of essays focuses on work-life balance from the male perspective. We asked a group of husbands of women lawyers - all ages, all generations, various professions - to share their observations, insights, and thoughts about the pressures they've faced... More

A Simple Common Lawyer: Essays in Honour of Michael Taggart
Michael Taggart is the Alexander Turner Professor of Law in the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He has written extensively on administrative law and public law, as well as privatization and the public/private law divide. He has visited at the Universities of Melbourne, Toronto, Cambridge, Paris II, Saskatchewan, Western Ontario,... More

The Loneliness of the Comparative Lawyer and Other Essays in Foreign and Comparative Law
In these critical essays a leading comparative lawyer: examines the movement for convergence of the Civil Law and the Common Law describes the Italian Style and the French Deviation contrasts Common Law estate with Civil Law ownership explains why the distinction between public law and private law is important to Civil Lawyers but has little interest for Common Lawyers... More