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A Woman in Law: Reflections on Gender, Class and Politics

16 January 2020
Issue: 7870 / Categories: Features
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"She has always been keen to highlight injustice, whether it was the prosecution of those who should not be prosecuted or the failure to prosecute those who should be prosecuted "

Author: Celia Wells
Publisher: Waterside Press
ISBN: 9781909976665
Pages: 200
RRP: £19.95 (Free delivery in UK)

Celia Wells’s A Woman in Law: Reflections on Gender, Class and Politics was for me an intriguing and sometimes uncomfortable read. I have long admired Professor Celia Wells as an impressive academic lawyer. I have throughout my career much enjoyed her insightful comments on criminal law, and for many years her Reconstructing Criminal Law (first published in 1990, with Nicola Lacey) was the most interesting textbook on that subject that I could find to recommend for students. She has always been keen to highlight injustice, whether it was the prosecution of those who should not be prosecuted (victims of domestic violence, for example) or the failure to prosecute those who should be prosecuted (hence her pioneering work on corporate criminal liability). Her ‘Working out women in law schools’, published

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