THE FIRST WOMEN IN THE SLOVAKIAN LEGAL PROFESSION: A CULTURAL ANALYSIS
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https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu17.2016.310Abstract
Th e article represents a contribution to the history of Slovakian law: the entrance of women into the legal profession, legal education and legal practice, mostly advocacy in Slovakia — aft er the creation of Czechoslovak republic in 1918. A special part of this article is dedicated to women fi rst in comparison with other countries and with the fi rst women lawyers, and then it analyzes the fi rst women students of law in Slovakia at the Law Faculty of Comenius University in Bratislava from 1921. Th e core part of the article is focused on women in advocacy in Slovakia (1918–1939). Th e fi rst woman advocate candidate in Slovakia was inscribed into the list of advocates in 1925, fi rst woman advocate in 1931. Until 1939 in Slovakia there were 86 women — advocacy candidates and 14 of them bacame advocates. Th is article traces a new social phenomenon: women in the legal profession. Refs 13.
Keywords:
woman, advocacy, advocate, legal profession, legal education, Slovakia in first half of the 20th century
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