Position: | Akademische Oberrätin (senior academic) at the FernUniversität, the German National Distance Teaching University |
Education: | First German State Examination in Law (Appeal Court Hamm 1970) and Second German State Examination in Law (Qualification for Judiciary and Legal Profession) (Ministry of Justice Düsseldorf 1976) with so-called „Prädikat“
Summer Schools in English and International Law at the City of London College (1968 and 1971) with DAAD Scholarship
Scholarship of the Council of Europe for Studies in European Law (1973)
Fellowship of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (Oct. 2005) |
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Languages: | German (mothertongue), English fluent, French very good |
Posts held: | Research Assistant at the National Academy of Administrative Sciences in Speyer (7/72 - 1/74); Tasks Performed: Didactics of Teaching Administrative Sciences, Critique of Structure of State Chanceries
Practical Training with a Firm of Solicitors, London (2/74 - 4/74)
Research Assistant at the Chair for Civil Law and Company Law at the FernUniversität (1976-1978)
(1978-2008), Head of Department of Didacties for 1982-) for the Law Faculty at Zentrum für Fernstudienentwicklung (Centre for the Development of Distance Studies) of the FernUniversität (part-time for child-care from 1980 - 1991), since 2008 at the Faculty of Law |
Tasks
Performed at FernUniversität: | Consultancy in Didactics/Educational Technology, Evaluation
Implementation of Computer Marked Assignments at the Law Faculty
Production of Audio-Cassettes for Correspondence Courses of the Law Faculty
Production of app. 70 Video-Cassettes and TV-Films for Law Students with Accompanying Booklets
Moderator of University TV Series
Editing of Women Lectures and Study Materials
Programmes of Further Education for the Law Faculty
(Project Management, Course Design and Co-authorship):
Law Related Education (1981-1985)
Women and Law (1985-1998)
Practical Skills Training for Young Lawyers (1990-1998)
Virtual International Gender Studies (1999 - 2009)
Gender Module for the Master of Laws (since 2009)
Organisation of Conferences on Didactics and eLearning
Head of the University Equal Opportunities Commission (1990-2006),
Vice Equal Opportunities Officer since 1998
Board Member of the Research Committee for the Sociology of Law
Board Member of the Onati International Institute for the Sociology of Law
Board Member of the Sektion Rechtssoziologie of the German Sociological Association
Member of the Board of International Advisers of the International Journal for the Legal Profession
EU Ethics Consultant
Chair of International Working Group for Comparative Studies of the Legal Profession (Working Group of Research Committee for the Sociology of Law of International Sociological Association)
Expert for FIBAA (Foundation for International Business Accreditation)
Numerous honorary positions, e.g. member of Local Alliance for Families, Candidate in the European Elections 2004 and 2009, Various Political Functions
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Teaching Experience | Law Seminars for Students at High School for Project on Law Related Education, since 1981
Tutorials and Seminars for the FernUniversität in Civil Law,
Company Law, Mercantile Law and Women and Law, ongoing
Videoconference-Seminar on “Equal Opportunities in Comparative Perspective”, since 2004/05
Lectures on “Women´s Rights and Law” at the Law Faculty of the Ruhr-Universität, Bochum, 1990 - 2000
Seminars on “Women and Law” for Women´s Studies at the University of Essen, 1990 - 1997
Seminars for Female Law Students and Young Lawyers (Referendarinnen) at Various Universities on Questions of Gender and Law, Self Assertion, Communication, Applications Trainings etc., ongoing
Further Training for Judges and Public Prosecutors and Young Lawyers (Referendare) at the National and at the State Academy for the Judiciary in
Didactics and Methodology of Teaching Law,
Law and Language,
Communication, Negotiation, Mediation, Conflict Resolution, Women and Law,
Gender Mainstreaming, Work-Life Balance etc., ongoing
Gender Trainings
Trainings for Examiners in the Qualifying Legal State Examination and other Examinations
„Distance Learning: Didactic Aspects,
Master „Management und Beratung für Europäische Bildung“
Centre for European Education, Lecee, Zagreb
Rhetoric, Communication, Negotiation
Socio-Legal Master. International Institute for the Sociology of Law, Onati
Rich Practice of Single Lectures and Speeches in the above Mentioned Fields, mainly on questions of Gender and Law
Moderations
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Administrative Experience: | Project Management of Programmes of Further Education,
Catering for more than 500 Students p.a., the Practical Skills Training having had a Turnover of 400.000 DM (=200.000 Euro) in 1998, for VINGS I attracted a governmental grant of 1 Mio Euro for three years (2001-2004)
Organisation of Series of Lectures on Women and Law (1985-ongoing)
and on Feminist Issues (1994-ongoing)
Various Research Grants mainly for Research on eLearning Issues, Gender and Law, Feminist Studies
Current Project: Empirical Study on Women in Leading Positions in the Judiciary
Operation of Network of International Women in the Legal Profession Group
Organisation of Workshops on Women in the Legal Profession, International Institute for the Sociology of Law in Onati (1999) and on Gender and Judging, International Institute for the Sociology of Law in Onati (2009)
Regular Organisation of Panels at International Socio-Legal Conferences
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Books: | Frauen im Recht (ed. together with Ulrich Battis) (Heidelberg: C.F.Müller, 1990)
Women in the World´s Legal Professions (ed. together with Gisela Shaw) Hart: Oxford 2003
Frauen und Recht, ed. for the Ministry of Health, Social Questions, Women and Family Northrhine-Westfalia, Dusseldorf 2003, print and online version
http://www.vings.de/kurse/wissensnetz/reader/frauenundrecht.pdf
Frauenbilder, ed. for the Ministry of Health, Social Questions, Women and Family Northrhine-Westfalia, Dusseldorf 2004
Print and online version
http://www.callnrw.de/broschuerenservice/commons/index.php?lid=15
„Des Schicksals Fügung in die eignen Hände nehmen“..., Künstlerinnen, Schriftstellerinnen, und Musikerinnen vom 17. – 21. Jhrdt. (ed), Hagen: Universitätsverlag 2005
Demografischer Wandel: Die Stadt, die Frauen und die Zukunft, ed. for the Ministry of Generations, Women, Family and Integration Northrhine-Westfalia, Dusseldorf 2006
Print and online version
http://www.callnrw.de/broschuerenservice/commons/index.php?lid=15
Frauen verändern EUROPA verändert Frauen, ed. for Ministry of Generations, Women, Family and Integration Northrhine-Westfalia, Dusseldorf 2008
Print and online version
http://www.callnrw.de/broschuerenservice/commons/index.php?lid=15
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Articles: | Numerous, mainly in national journals; articles in English comprising:
The Practicing Lawyer in the Federal Republic of Germany. A Summary of the Major Rules Governing the Profession of West German Lawyers and Their Effects Upon the Manner in Which Foreign Lawyers can Collaborate with West German Colleagues. (ed. by Paul Koessler) In: The International Lawyer 1980, S. 531
German Advocates: A highly Regulated Profession.
In: Abel, Richard and Philip Lewis (eds): Lawyers in Society.
Vol. 2: The Civil Law World. Berkeley/Los Angeles/London:
University of California Press 1988, p.124 (together with E.Blankenburg),
revised version in: Abel, Richard and Philip Lewis (eds):
Lawyers in Society. An Overview. 1995. Berkeley/Los Angeles/
London: University of California Press 1995, p. 92
Women in Law or the Masculinity of the Legal Profession in Germany.
In: Febbrajo; Alberto and David Nelken (eds):
European Yearbook in the Sociology of Law 1993. Milano:
Giuffre 1994, p. 229
Teaching Legal Ethics to the Legal Professions in Europe:
Legal Ethics in Germany. International Journal of the Legal Profession 1997
Women in the World´s Legal Professions. Overview and Synthesis. In: Schultz, Ulrike / Shaw, Gisela (ed): Women in the World´s Legal Professions. Oxford: Hart 2003
The Status of Women Lawyers in Germany. In: Schultz, Ulrike / Shaw, Gisela (ed): Women in the World´s Legal Professions. Oxford: Hart 2003
Women Lawyers in Germany: Perception and Construction of Femininity. In: Schultz, Ulrike / Shaw, Gisela: Women in the World´s Legal Professions. Oxford: Hart 2003
Regulated Deregulation: The Case of the German Legal Profession. In: Felstiner, Bill (ed): Reorganization and Resistance: Legal Professions Confront a Changing World. Oxford: Hart 2005
Legal Education in Germany – an ever (never?) ending story of resistance to change. In: Olgiati, Vittorio, Hrsg.: Higher Legal Culture and Postgraduate Legal Education in Europa. Neapel, Rom: Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane 2008, S. 125 – 149
Ed. of Special Issues for the International Journal of the Legal Profession on Women and Law (2003) and Gender and Judging (2008)
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Correspondence Courses: | Courses on Family Law, Law Related Education, Women and Law, Gender and Law, see: www.vings.de
Video Conference Seminar on Equal Opportunities in Comparative Perspective. see: Videostreams
http://www.fernuni-hagen.de/videostreaming/bwp/
Web based training on Law Related Education
http://www.justiz.nrw.de/JM/justizpolitik/rechtskunde/unterrichtsmaterialien/lernprogamm/index.php
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