100 Years of Women in Law - Creative Workshop Series

On Monday 22 November, the School of Law held the first of two student workshops on the topic of 'Creative Expression and Cultures of Progressive Change in Scotland - 100 Years of Women in Law', let by scriptwriter in residence, Lynsey Murdoch.

The Women in Law project (WIL) draws on interdisciplinary research to uncover the untold story of how women in Scotland overcame barriers to enter the legal profession, following the Sex (Disqualification) Act 1919.

The project has developed data sets that deploy archival and feminist methodologies to document for the first time the professional trajectories and biographies of these pioneering women in law.

One central outcome of the research has been the unearthing of the story of the first woman solicitor in the UK, a UofG graduate, Madge Easton Anderson.

In the workshop, the WIL project team (MC Boyle, Maria Fletcher, Rachel McPherson, Charlie Peevers, Seonaid Stevenson [Glasgow Caledonian University] and Pat Lucie) and Lynsey, together with our students, worked collaboratively on interpreting the team’s research centred around Madge Easton Anderson into creative expressions. This included the creation of scripts around various scenarios Anderson and her peers would have faced in navigating the legal profession of the 1920s.

The second workshop will take place in mid-December, with outputs of this collaborative work being disseminated in the new year.

Find out more about the School of Law's Women in Law Project