A Woman in Law is a frank and revealing account which distils the essence of women's career challenges and highlights the issues women continue to face.
'Well written and beautifully composed in terms of the strands [the author] interweaves so successfully'-- Andrew Ashworth CBE; 'Beautifully written and searingly honest ... a rare resource ... emotionally articulate and deeply considered'--Nicola Lacey
Celia Wells is Emerita Professor of Criminal Law at the University of Bristol. An early exponent of the need to understand law in wider contexts, in 1995 she became the first woman law professor at Cardiff. She is the author of Corporations and Criminal Responsibility (2001), Negotiating Tragedy (1995) and Recon-structing Criminal Law (with Nicola Lacey, latest edn. 2010). Awarded the OBE in 2006, she is a past President of the Society of Legal Scholars.