Staff Profile:Prof. Rosemary Auchmuty

Name:

Professor Rosemary Auchmuty

Job Title:

Professor

Responsibilities:

• Module convenor for LLB Land Law and the Property Law Project; member of the LLB Equity and Trusts team and the LLB Gender and Law team

Areas of Interest:

Research groups / Centres:

Publications:

Y

Jump to: 2016 | 2015 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2008 | 2007

Number of items: 20.

2016

• Auchmuty, R. (2016) The limits of marriage protection: in defence of property law. Oñati Socio-Legal Series, 6 (6). pp. 1196-1224. ISSN 2079-5971
• Auchmuty, R. (2016) The experience of civil partnership dissolution: not 'just like divorce'. Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law, 38 (2). pp. 152-174. ISSN 1469-9621 doi: 10.1080/09649069.2016.1156884
• Auchmuty, R. (2016) The limits of marriage protection in property allocation when a relationship ends. Child and Family Law Quarterly, 28 (4). pp. 303-324. ISSN 1358-8184

2015

• Auchmuty, R. (2015) Dissolution or disillusion: the unravelling of civil partnerships. In: Barker, N. and Monk, D. (eds.) From civil partnership to same-sex marriage: interdisciplinary reflections. Routledge, London, pp. 199-219. ISBN 9781138797536
• Auchmuty, R. (2015) Feminist approaches to sexuality and law scholarship. Legal Information Management, 15 (1). pp. 4-7. ISSN 1472-6696 doi: 10.1017/S1472669615000055
• Auchmuty, R. (2015) Recovering lost lives: researching women in legal history. Journal of Law and Society, 42 (1). pp. 34-52. ISSN 0263-323X doi: 10.1111/j.1467-6478.2015.00697.x

2013

• Auchmuty, R. (2013) Marriage and civil partnership: law's role, feminism's response. In: Davies, M. and Munro, V. (eds.) The Ashgate Research Companion to Feminist Legal Theory. Ashgate, Farnham, pp. 285-302. ISBN 9781409418597

2012

• Auchmuty, R. (2012) Law and the power of feminism: how marriage lost its power to oppress women. Feminist Legal Studies, 20 (2). pp. 71-87. ISSN 0966-3622 doi: 10.1007/s10691-012-9197-6
• Auchmuty, R. (2012) Land law and equity and trust. In: Hunter, C. (ed.) Integrating soci-legal studies into the law curriculum. Palgrave Macmillan socio-legal studies . Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, pp. 69-103. ISBN 9780230304482

2011

• Auchmuty, R. (2011) Whatever happened to Miss Bebb? Bebb v The Law Society and women’s legal history. Legal Studies: The Journal of the Society of Legal Scholars, 31 (2). pp. 175-343. ISSN 1748-121X doi: 10.1111/j.1748-121X.2010.00180.x

2010

• Auchmuty, R. (2010) Feminists as stakeholders in the law school. In: Cownie, F. (ed.) Stakeholders in the Law School. Hart Publishing, Oxford, pp. 35-64. ISBN 9781841137216
• Auchmuty, R. (2010) Judgment: Royal Bank of Scotland Plc v Etridge (No 2). In: Hunter, R., McGlynn, C. and Rackley, E. (eds.) Feminist judgments: from theory to practice. Hart Publishing, Oxford, UK, pp. 155-169. ISBN 9781849460538

2008

• Auchmuty, R. (2008) Early women law students at Cambridge and Oxford. Journal of Legal History, 29 (1). pp. 63-97. ISSN 0144-0365 doi: 10.1080/01440360801903588
• Auchmuty, R. (2008) Lesbian. In: Cane, P. and Conaghan, J. (eds.) The New Oxford Companion to Law. Oxford University Press, Oxford, p. 728. ISBN 9780199290543
• Auchmuty, R. (2008) What's so special about marriage? The impact of Wilkinson v Kitzinger. Child & Family Law Quarterly, 20 (4). pp. 479-98. ISSN 1358-8184
• Auchmuty, R. (2008) Women Lawyers, Distinguished. In: Cane, P. and Conaghan, J. (eds.) The New Oxford Companion to Law. Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 1256-1257. ISBN 9780199290543
• Auchmuty, R. (2008) The married women's property acts: Equality was not the issue. In: Hunter, R. (ed.) Rethinking Equality Projects in Law: Feminist Challenges. Oxford: Hart . ISBN 9781841138404
• Auchmuty, R. (2008) A world of women: Growing up in the girl's school story. 2nd edition. Bettany Press, London. ISBN 9780955297366

2007

• Auchmuty, R. (2007) 'Girls' School Stories: the Critical Response. Children's Literature Review, 128. ISSN 0362-4145
• Auchmuty, R. (2007) The woman law student and the girls' college novel. Canadian Journal of Women and the Law, 19. pp. 37-72. ISSN 0832-8781 doi: 10.1353/jwl.2008.0020

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Further Publications:

• Using feminist judgments in the property law classroom' (2012) 42 The Law Teacher 227-238.
• 'Bebb, Gwyneth Marjory' (2011) Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, www.oxforddnb.com.
• 'Beyond Couples? Burden v the United Kingdom (2008)' (2009) 17 Feminist Legal Studies 205-218.  
• 'Out of the Shadows: Feminist silence and liberal law' (2007) in Carl Stychin and Vanessa Munro eds. Sexuality and the Law: Feminist Engagements. London: Routledge.
• 'Unfair Shares for Women: The rhetoric of equality and the reality of inequality' (2007) in Anne Bottomley and Hilary Lim eds. Feminist Perspectives on Land Law. London: Glass House Press.
• 'The Rhetoric of Equality and the Problem of Heterosexuality' (2005) in Linda Mulcahy and Sally Wheeler eds. Feminist Perspectives on Contract. London: Glass House Press.
• 'Same-Sex Marriage Revived: Feminist critique and legal strategy' (2004) 14 Feminism & Psychology 101-26. Reprinted in Leslie J. Moran ed. Sexuality and Identity. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006, a volume in the International Library of Essays in Law and Society, general editor Austin Sarat.
• 'Not Just a Good Children's Story: A tribute to adverse possession' (2004) 63 Conveyancer 293-307.
• 'When Equality is Not Equity: Homosexual inclusion in undue influence law' (2003) 11 Feminist Legal Studies 163-90.
• 'Agenda for a Feminist Legal Curriculum' (2003) 23 Legal Studies 377-401.
• 'Men Behaving Badly: An analysis of undue influence cases' (2002) 11 Social and Legal Studies 257-82.
• 'The Fiction of Equity' (2001) in Susan Scott-Hunt and Hilary Lim eds. Feminist Perspectives on Equity and Trusts. London: Cavendish.

Qualifications:

BA (ANU, 1971), PhD (ANU, 1975), Dip.Ed. (Wollongong, 1977), LLB (CNAA, 1989), LLM (UCL, 1991), FHEA (2007), FRSA (2012)

Biographical Details

A pioneer of women's studies and feminist legal studies in higher education in Britain, Rosemary (Australian by upbringing) was Associate Director of the AHRC Centre for Law, Gender and Sexuality, a joint enterprise between the Universities of Westminster, Keele and Kent, for three years before joining Reading Law School in 2007, where she now teaches Property Law subjects and Gender and Law. She is currently an executive member of the Society of Legal Scholars, for which she also convenes the Legal History section; a member of the Socio-Legal Studies Association and the (American) Law and Society Association; a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. In 2014 she was elected Chair of the ISA Research Committee on Sociology of Law's Working Group on Comparative Study of Legal Professions, an international body of legal scholars working together on research into legal education and the legal professions. She was a Visiting Professor from 2000 to 2015 at the University of Paris-Ouest Nanterre La Defense, France, teaching Land Law and Trusts. Prior to moving into law she wrote widely in the areas of women's history and children's literature, including three books: Australia's Daughters (Sydney: Methuen, 1978), A World of Girls: the Appeal of the Girls' School Story (London: The Women's Press, 1992, 2^nd ed. 2004) and A World of Women: growing up in the girls' school story (London: The Women's Press,1999, 2^nd ed. 2008). She co-edited the 2-volume Encyclopaedia of School Stories (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2000), wrote several entries for the Oxford Encyclopedia of Children's Literature (2006) and, most recently, provided the programme note for a musical called Crush!, based loosely in the school-story tradition, which premiered in September 2015. As well as property law and legal education, her research interests include gender and sexuality - she recently completed a British Academy funded project on dissolution of civil partnerships - and feminist legal history and biography, about which she has written a number of articles as well as several entries for the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004). She is currently, with Erika Rackley (University of Birmingham), engaged in a 100-strong collaboration called the Women's Legal Landmarks Project, a major historical collection in book and website formats, planned to celebrate the centenary of women's admission to the legal profession in 2019.