Ulrike Schultz is retired Senior Academic at the FernUniversität in Hagen, Germany. She specializes in questions of gender and law, the sociology of the legal profession, and didactics and professional communication. She has taken part in many international socio-legal projects, and conducted large empirical studies on women lawyers and judges. T. Brettel Dawson is an Associate Professor in the Department of Law and Legal Studies, Carleton University; Ottawa, Canada. She was associated with Canada’s National Judicial Institute between 1999-2016 and was its Academic Director and Director of Education. She is a past Co-editor of the Canadian Journal of Women and the Law. Gisela Shaw is Emeritus Professor in German Studies, and has worked in philosophy, literature and legal sociology. She was awarded a personal chair at the University of the West of England (Bristol, UK), where she held the post of Director of Research for Modern Languages and European Studies.