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Ulrike Schultz

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Kammannstr. 18
D 58097 Hagen
Tel.: 00 49 2331 870 811

e-mail: Ulrike.Schultz@FernUni-Hagen.de
web: www.ulrikeschultz.de

Sex Female | Date of birth 23/4/1947| Nationality German

WORK EXPERIENCE

since 2008

Akademische Oberrätin (Senior Academic) a.D.

  • German National Distance Teaching University
  • Research on legal education, legal profession, gender issues in law and in the legal profession
  • Lectures
  • Training sessions
  • Business or sector University

1978 - 2008

Head of Department of Didactics of the Faculty of Law

Centre for the Development of Distance Studies, Distance Teaching University

  • Project management, course design and co-authorship of Programmes of Further Education of the Faculty of Law:
    • Women and Law
    • Practical skills training for young lawyers
    • Virtual international gender studies (VINGS)
  • Gender Module for the Master of Laws
  • Research on legal education, legal profession, gender issues in law and in the legal profession, organisation of related conferences
  • Editing of women lectures and study material

    Business or sector University

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

  • Tutorials and Seminars for the FernUniversität in Civil Law, European 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-University, 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 at various universities on questions of Gender and Law, Self-Assertion, Communication, Applications Trainings etc. (ongoing)
  • Lectures on “Gender and Law” in the Master of Business Psychology at BITS, University of Applied Sciences, Iserlohn (ongoing)
  • Further Training for Judges and Public Prosecutors and Young Lawyers 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
  • Socio-Legal Master. International Institute for the Sociology of Law, Onati since 2009
  • Rich practice of lectures and speeches and online seminars in the above mentioned fields, mainly on questions of Gender and Law

Most recent research

  • Partner in EU project on Teachings Legal Ethics to the Legal Professions in Europe
  • Partner in EU project on Money Laundering (both headed by Avrom Sherr, University of London)
  • VINGS (Virtual International Gender Studies) 1999-2004
  • Research project on Women Judges Careers in the Judiciary in North-Rhine Westphalia (2009-2011)
  • Empirical study on Gender and Careers in the Legal Academy (2011-2014, www.fernuni-hagen.de/jurpro )
  • Setting up of website with video-interviews www.fernuni-hagen.de/rechtundgender since 2012 ongoing
  • International Comparative Research on Gender and Judging since 2007 ongoing
  • International Comparative Research on Gender and Judicial Education 2013-2016
  • International Comparative Research on Women/Gender in the Legal Profession, since 1994, ongoing
  • International Comparative Research on Gender and Careers in the Legal Academy, since 2011
    https://www.fernuni-hagen.de/jurpro/tagungen.shtml
  • Various research grants mainly for research on gender and law, feminist studies, etc.

Further positions held

  • Head of the University Equal Opportunities Commission (1990-2006)
  • Board Member of the Research Committee for the Sociology of Law (2006-2014)
  • Board Member of the Onati International Institute for the Sociology of Law (since 2006)
  • Board Member of the Section “Sociology of Law” of the German Sociological Association (2008-2014)
  • Board Member International Journal of the Legal Profession
  • Member of the Board of Editors Onati Socio-Legal Series
  • Co-Editor of the Legal Handbook for Equal Opportunities Officers
  • EU Ethics Consultant and EU expert and evaluator
  • 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) (2010 – 2014); Head of the Women/Gender in the Legal Profession Sub-Group (since 1994)
  • Governmental Adviser for the Ministry of Justice in Tiflis/Georgia
  • Governmental Adviser for the Vice-President in Bulgaria
  • Gender Expert for ODIHR (OSCE) in Warsaw/Poland
  • Expert for the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE)
  • Numerous honorary positions, e.g. member of Local Alliance for Families, Candidate in the European Elections 2004 and 2009, Various Political Functions
  • Adviser to EURO-SociAL, Programma para la Cohesion Social en América Latina
  • Adviser to EURO-EXPERT - Cultural Expertise in Europe: What is it useful for?
  • RCSL President since 2018

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

1970
First German State Examination in Law (Appeal Court Hamm 1970) with distinction
1973
Scholarship of the Council of Europe for Studies in European Law
1976
Second German State Examination in Law (Qualification for Judiciary and Legal Profession) (Ministry of Justice) passed with distinction
2005
Fellowship of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

PERSONAL SKILLS

Mother tongue(s) German

Other language(s) UNDERSTANDING SPEAKING WRITING
English
Listening C2 Reading C2 I Spoken interaction C2 I Spoken production C2 I Writing C2

French
Listening C1 Reading C1 I Spoken interaction C1 I Spoken production C1 I Writing C1

Levels:
A1/A2: Basic user - B1/B2: Independent user - C1/C2 Proficient user
Common European Framework of Reference for Languages

Communication skills
Excellent communication skills gained through long years of teaching and trainer experience. Invited speaker and moderator in numerous national and international events.

Organisational / managerial skills
Very good organisational and project management skills: has organised a series of seminars, workshops and conferences in the topic of Gender Law and Legal Profession

Digital competence
Good command of office suite

ANNEXES

Books

  • Frauen in Führungspositionen der Justiz (2019), together with Anja Böning, Ilka Peppmeier, Silke Schröder, Münster: MV-Wissenschaft.
  • De jure und de facto: Professorinnen in der Rechtswissenschaft. Geschlecht und Wissenschaftskarriere im Recht (2018), together with Anja Böning, Ilka Peppmeier, Silke Schröder, baden-Baden: Nomos.
  • Special issue of the International Journal of the Legal Profession on Gender and Judicial Education (2015) (ed. together with Gisela Shaw and Brettel Dawson).
  • Gender and Judicial Education (ed. together with Gisela Shaw and Brettel Dawson). London, New York: Routledge 2016. (reprint des Special Issue: Gender and Judicial Education des International Journal of the Legal Profession, Volume 21, number 3, November 2014, and parts of Volume 22, number 2, July 2015.
  • Gender and Judging (ed. together with Gisela Shaw), Hart: Oxford 2013
  • Frauen verändern EUROPA verändert Frauen, ed. for Ministry of Generations, Women, Family and Integration North-Rhine-Westphalia, Dusseldorf 2008.
  • Women in the Judiciary (ed. together with Gisela Shaw). London, New York: Routledge 2012 Book version of the special issue on Gender and Judging of the International Journal of the Legal Profession 2008.
  • Demografischer Wandel: Die Stadt, die Frauen und die Zukunft, ed. for the Ministry of Generations, Women, Family and Integration North-Rhine-Westphalia, Dusseldorf 2006.
  • Frauenbilder, ed. for the Ministry of Health, Social Questions, Women and Family Northrhine-Westfalia, Dusseldorf 2004.
  • 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 North-Rhine-Westphalia, Dusseldorf 2003.
  • Special issue of the International Journal of the Legal Profession on Women and Law (2003) (ed. together with Gisela Shaw).
  • Frauen im Recht (ed. together with Ulrich Battis) Heidelberg: C.F.Müller, 1990.

Articles

  • Numerous, mainly in national journals; articles in English comprising:
  • Relationship between academia and the legal profession in Germany. In: Key directions in legal education: National and international perspectives, ed. by Emma Jones and Fiona Cownie. 2019
  • Germany. Resistance and Reactions to Demands of Modernisation. (together with Matthias Kilian) In: Lawyers in 21st Century Societies, vol. 1, ed. by Richard Abel, Hillary Sommerlad, Ole Hammerslev and Ulrike Schultz. Oxford: Hart 2019
  • The gender and judging project: equity in Germany. Diversity and the courts. In: Elgar Handbook, ed. By Susan Sterett et al, 2019
  • Gender Issues in the Legal Profession in Germany. In: CoLeGe§Net-Blog des Comparative Legal Gender Studies-Network in Gießen. (http://colegenet-blog.intlaw-giessen.de/vortraege/kurzfassungen/gender-issues-in-the-legal-profession-in-germany-ulrike-schultz-akad-oberraetin-a-d-fernuniversitaet-hagen/protokoll-gender-issues-in-the-legal-profession-in-Germany/) 2018
  • Mapping the representation of women and men in legal professions across the EU. European Parliament. Interim Report.Committee on Women´s Rights and Gender Equality. Mit Team ösb Consulting Wien. 2017 http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/STUD/2017/596804/IPOL_STU(2017)596804_EN.pdf
  • Foreword zu “Women in Commercial Legal Practice”. Edited by Jane Ellis, Ashleigh Buckett. IBA Legal and Policy Research Unit. December 2017. https://www.ibanet.org/Article/NewDetail.aspx?ArticleUid=25cfa7d2-9966-4541-8009-64221f45e17c
  • Do Female Judges Judge Differently? Empirical Realities of a Theoretical Debate. In: Women Judges in the Muslim World, ed. by Monika Lindbekk and Nadia Sonneveld. Leiden: Brill 2017
  • Sexism / Sexismo. In: Dictionary Crime, Justice and Society. Lisboa: Edicoes Silabo 2016
  • Judiciary and Gender Topics – German Experience and International Perspectives, O Centro de Estudos Sociais (CES) da Universidade de Coimbra, e-cadernos ces 24/2015, Sonderheft: As mulheres nas profissões jurídicas: experiências e representações https://eces.revues.org/1998
  • Znachenie vidimosti i artikulyatsii: kar'yera zhenshchiny v sudebnoy sisteme [“I was noticed and I was asked…” Women’s Careers in the Judiciary]. In: Alexander Kondakov (ed.) Obshchestvo i pravo: issledovatel'skie perspektivy [Law and Society: Research Perspectives]. St. Petersburg: Centre for Independent Social Research. 2015, p. 359—38
  • Raising Gender Awareness of Judges – Elements for Judicial Education in Germany. In: Gender and Judicial Education, Special Issue des International Journal of the Legal Profession, ed. by Ulrike Schultz, Gisela Shaw and Brettel Dawson, vol. 21, 3, November 2014, p. 345 – 355, Editorial of this journal, p. 255 – 257
  • Do German Judges Need Gender Education? In: Schultz, Ulrike / Shaw, Gisela: Gender and Judging. Oxford: Hart 2013 p. 585 – 598
  • “What did I actually get?” – Communication with Young People in Youth Criminal Cases, Psicologia Culturale, Numero 3, Firera & Liuzzo, 2013 “What have I got?” – Communication with Young Offenders in Juvenile Justice, p. 115-138
  • Gender and Judging (ed. together with Gisela Shaw). Oxford: Hart 2013
  • Introduction: Gender and Judging: Overview and Synthesis. In: Schultz, Ulrike / Shaw, Gisela: Gender and Judging. Oxford: Hart 2013, p. 3 – 47
  • “I was noticed and I was asked…” Women´s Careers in the Judiciary. Results of an Empirical Study for the Ministry of Justice in North-Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, In: Schultz, Ulrike / Shaw, Gisela: Gender and Judging. Oxford: Hart 2013, p. 145 – 166
    ▪ Do female judges judge better? In: Journal of Law & Social Research. Special Issue on Gender and the Legal Profession. 3/2012, S. 29 – 43
  • Gender Education for the Judiciary. In: International Comparison of Continuing Legal Education, hrsg. Von Kayo Minamino. Tokio: Nihon Kajo Publishing 2012, p. 99 – 126 (Japanese translation)
  • Legal Education in Germany - an ever (never?) ending story of resistance to change, RED, Revista de Educación y Derecho, n. 4 (2011), 1-24, http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/RED
  • Women and Gender in the Legal Profession. In: Cane, Peter, Joanne Conaghan: The New Oxford Companion to Law. Oxford. Oxford University Press 2008, p. 1253 f.
  • 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, p. 93-131
  • 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, p. XXV-LXII
  • The Status of Women Lawyers in Germany. In: Schultz, Ulrike / Shaw, Gisela (ed): Women in the World´s Legal Professions. Oxford: Hart 2003, p. 271-291
  • Sexism in law and the impact of gender stereotypes on legal proceedings. Tiflis: Böll Foundation forthcoming
  • Equal Rights for Men and Women in Germany. Tiflis: Böll Foundation forthcoming
    Articles in German available at: www.ulrikeschultz.de