Since 2014 free lance

1976 - 2014 FernUniversität Hagen, German National Distance Teaching University
Akademische Oberrätin (Senior Academic) a.D.
Head of Department of Didactics of the Faculty of Law and in Law Faculty
⦁ Media production, audios and app. 80 videos, moderator of university TV series
⦁ Consultancy on didactic issues and development of didactic models
⦁ Project management, curriculum and course design and co-authorship of Programmes of Further Education of the Faculty of Law:
⦁ Law Related Education
⦁ Women and Law
⦁ Practical skills training for young lawyers
⦁ Virtual international gender studies (VINGS)
⦁ Gender Module for the Master of Laws
⦁ Research on legal education, legal profession, gender issues in law and in the legal profession, organisation of related conferences
⦁ Editing of women lectures and study material
⦁ Many grants for all aspects of work

1972 -1973 Research Assistant at University of Administrative Sciences Speyer.
EDUCATION AND TRAINING

1970
First German State Examination in Law (Appeal Court Hamm 1970) with distinction

1976
Second German State Examination in Law (Qualification for Judiciary and Legal Profession) (Ministry of Justice) with distinction
English and International Law at the City of London College (1968 and 1971)
French Law in Saarbrücken (8/9, 1971)
Training as Mediator and Communication Trainer 1998-2006 including Harvard Courses on Mediation and Negotiation and Training at Washington Peace Institute; Leadership Training 2002-2006

FELLOWSHIP AND PRIZES
DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) (1971)
Scholarship of the Council of Europe for Studies in European Law (1973)
Fellowship of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (Oct. 2005)
International Prize, Law and Society Association (2021)
RCSL Podgorecki Prize for Lifetime Achievements in Sociology of Law

TEACHING EXPERIENCE
⦁ Tutorials and Seminars for the FernUniversität in Civil Law, European Law and Women and Law (ongoing)
⦁ Law Related Education with train the trainer courses since 1981
⦁ Videoconference-Seminar on “Equal Opportunities in Comparative Perspective”, since 2004/05
⦁ Lectures on “Women´s Rights and Law” at the Law Faculty of the Ruhr-University, Bochum, 1990 - 2000
⦁ Seminars on “Women and Law” for Women´s Studies at the University of Essen, 1990 – 1997
⦁ Seminars for Female Law Students and Young Lawyers at various universities on questions of Gender and Law, Self-Assertion, Communication, Applications Trainings etc. (ongoing)
⦁ „Distance Learning: Didactic Aspects, Master „Management und Beratung für Europäische Bildung“, Centre for European Education, Lecee, Zagreb, 2007 - 2012, with Supervision of Master Theses
⦁ Lectures on “Gender and Law” in the Master of Business Psychology at BITS, University of Applied Sciences, Iserlohn, 2011 – 2016
⦁ Seminar on “Women and Law” in the Gender Studies Master, University Cologne, 2022
⦁ Further Training for Judges and Public Prosecutors and Young Lawyers at the National and at the State Academy for the Judiciary in Didactics and Methodology of Teaching Law, Law and Language, Communication, Negotiation, Mediation, Conflict Resolution, Women and Law, Gender Mainstreaming, Work-Life Balance etc. (ongoing)
⦁ Gender Trainings
⦁ Trainings for Examiners in the Qualifying Legal State Examination and other Examinations
⦁ Trainings for Equal Opportunities Officers 2025
⦁ Socio-Legal Master. International Institute for the Sociology of Law, Onati since 2009 (ADR; Communication, Rhetoric, Negotiation, Mediation; Legal Profession)
⦁ Rich practice of lectures and speeches and online seminars in the above-mentioned fields, mainly on questions of Gender and Law

Research projects
⦁ Partner in EU project on Teachings Legal Ethics to the Legal Professions in Europe
⦁ Partner in EU project on Money Laundering (both headed by Avrom Sherr, University of London)
⦁ VINGS (Virtual International Gender Studies) 1999-2004
⦁ Research project on Women Judges Careers in the Judiciary in North-Rhine Westphalia (2009-2012)
⦁ Empirical study on Gender and Careers in the Legal Academy (2011-2014, w⦁ ww.fernuni-hagen.de/jurpro )
⦁ Setting up of website with video-interviews ⦁ www.fernuni-hagen.de/rechtundgender since 2012 ongoing
⦁ International Comparative Research on Gender and Judging since 2007 ongoing
⦁ International Comparative Research on Gender and Judicial Education 2013-2016
⦁ International Comparative Research on Women/Gender in the Legal Profession, since 1994, ongoing
⦁ International Comparative Research on Gender and Careers in the Legal Academy, since 2011
https://www.fernuni-hagen.de/jurpro/tagungen.shtml
⦁ International Comparative Research on Gender in Customary and Indigenous Law and Proceedings, since 2022
⦁ International Comparative Research on Notaries Across Borders, since 2022
⦁ Encyclopedia of Sociology of Law, since 2023
⦁ Various research grants mainly for research on gender and law, feminist studies, etc.

Further positions held
⦁ Head of the University Equal Opportunities Commission (1990-2006)
⦁ Board Member of the Research Committee for the Sociology of Law (2010-2014)
⦁ Board Member of the Onati International Institute for the Sociology of Law (since 2006)
⦁ Board Member of the Section “Sociology of Law” of the German Sociological Association (2010-2014)
⦁ Member of Editorial Board, International Journal of the Legal Profession
⦁ Member of the Board of Editors Onati Socio-Legal Series
⦁ Co-Editor of the Legal Handbook for Equal Opportunities Officers since 2006
⦁ EU Ethics Consultant and EU expert and evaluator
⦁ Chair of International Working Group for Comparative Studies of the Legal Profession (Working Group of Research Committee for the Sociology of Law of International Sociological Association) (2010 – 2014); Head of the Women/Gender in the Legal Profession Sub-Group (since 1994)
⦁ Governmental Adviser for the Ministry of Justice in Tiflis/Georgia
⦁ Governmental Adviser for the Vice-President in Bulgaria
⦁ Gender Expert for ODIHR (OSCE) in Warsaw/Poland
⦁ Expert for the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE)
⦁ Numerous honorary positions, e.g. member of Local Alliance for Families, Candidate in the European Elections 2004 and 2009, Various Political Functions
⦁ Adviser to EURO-SociAL, Programma para la Cohesion Social en América Latina
⦁ Adviser to EURO-EXPERT - Cultural Expertise in Europe: What is it useful for?
⦁ RCSL President 2018-2023

ANNEXES
Books
⦁ Frauen in Führungspositionen der Justiz, together with Anja Böning, Ilka Peppmeier, Silke Schröder, Münster: MV-Wissenschaft, 2026.
⦁ Hyden, Hakan, Schultz, Ulrike and Peter Scharff Smith, eds. Elgar Encyclopedia of Sociology of Law 2026
⦁ Women Judges (ed.) (2024) London, New York: Routledge. (reprint des Special Issue: Women and Judicial Appointments des International Journal of the Legal Profession, Volume 27, number 2, Juli 2020 (together with Tabeth Mesengu and Avrom Sherr)
⦁ Håkan Hydén, Roger Cotterrell, David Nelken, Ulrike Schultz (eds): Combining the Legal and the Social in Sociology of Law. Oxford: Bloomsbury, 2023.
⦁ Lawyers in 21st Century Societies, vol. 2: Comparisons and Theories, ed. Richard Abel, Hillary Sommerlad, Ole Hammerslev, Ulrike Schultz. Oxford: Hart, 2022.
⦁ Gender and Careers in the Legal Academy eds Ulrike Schultz, Gisela Shaw, Margaret Thornton, Rosemary Auchmuty. Oxford: Hart, 2021
⦁ De jure und de facto: Professorinnen in der Rechtswissenschaft. Geschlecht und Wissenschaftskarriere im Recht (2018), with Anja Böning, Ilka Peppmeier, Silke Schröder, Baden-Baden: Nomos.
⦁ Special issue of the International Journal of the Legal Profession on Gender and Judicial Education (2015) (ed. together with Gisela Shaw and Brettel Dawson).
⦁ Gender and Judicial Education (ed. together with Gisela Shaw and Brettel Dawson). London, New York: Routledge 2016. (reprint des Special Issue: Gender and Judicial Education des International Journal of the Legal Profession, Volume 21, number 3, November 2014, and parts of Volume 22, number 2, July 2015.
⦁ Gender and Judging (ed. together with Gisela Shaw), Hart: Oxford 2013
⦁ Frauen verändern EUROPA verändert Frauen, ed. for Ministry of Generations, Women, Family and Integration North-Rhine-Westphalia, Dusseldorf 2008.
⦁ Women in the Judiciary (ed. together with Gisela Shaw). London, New York: Routledge 2012 Book version of the special issue on Gender and Judging of the International Journal of the Legal Profession 2008.
⦁ Demografischer Wandel: Die Stadt, die Frauen und die Zukunft, ed. for the Ministry of Generations, Women, Family and Integration North-Rhine-Westphalia, Dusseldorf 2006.
⦁ Frauenbilder, ed. for the Ministry of Health, Social Questions, Women and Family Northrhine-Westfalia, Dusseldorf 2004.
⦁ Women in the World´s Legal Professions (ed. together with Gisela Shaw) Hart: Oxford 2003.
⦁ Frauen und Recht, ed. for the Ministry of Health, Social Questions, Women and Family North-Rhine-Westphalia, Dusseldorf 2003.
⦁ Special issue of the International Journal of the Legal Profession on Women and Law (2003) (ed. together with Gisela Shaw).
⦁ Frauen im Recht (ed. together with Ulrich Battis) Heidelberg: C.F.Müller, 1990.

Articles
Numerous, mainly in national journals; articles in English comprising:
⦁ Equal Rights for Men and Women, in Hyden, Hakan, Schultz, Ulrike and Peter Scharff Smith. Elgar Encyclopedia of Sociology of Law, 2026
⦁ Legal Education in Germany, in: Bradney, Anthony and Cownie, Fiona (eds): Elgar Handbook on Legal Education. Northampton: Elgar Publishing, 2025.
⦁ Judicial Education – The example of Germany, in Turenne, Sophie (ed.) Research Handbook on the Judiciary. Northampton: Elgar Publishing, 2025.
⦁ Women Jurists Under the Swastika, in: Barnes, V., Honkala, N. and Wheeler, S. (eds) 'Women, their lives and the law: Essays in honour of Rosemary Auchmuty'. London: Hart, 2023, 19-41. ISSN 10: 1-5099-6209-3 ISSN 13: 978-1-5099-6208-2
⦁ Knowledge and Opinion About Law – The importance of Law Related Education, in: Combining the Legal and the Social in Sociology of Law. Anthology in Memory of Reza Banakar, ed. Hakan Hyden, David Nelken, Roger Cotterell, Ulrike Schultz. Oxford. Bloomsbury, 2023, 161-172.
⦁ “Breaking the Bowl: Integrating women´s, gender and socio-legal issues into teaching and research in law” in IISL Memory Lectures, ed. by Martin Ramstedt, OSLS Series, 2023. https://opo.iisj.net/index.php/osls/article/view/1490
⦁ Women and the Judiciary in the Asia-Pacific. Concluding Remarks. In: Melissa Crouch, ed.: Women and the Judiciary in the Asia Pacific. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022.
⦁ Gender and potential impacts on decision-making in arbitration: experiences from Germany in an international field, International Journal of the Legal Profession, 29:1, 2021, 53-74.
⦁ Introduction: Gender and Careers in the Legal Academy: Overview and Synthesis. In: Gender and Careers in the Legal Profession, ed. by Ulrike Schultz, Gisela Shaw, Margaret Thornton and Rosemary Auchmuty. Oxford: Hart, 2021, 1–36.
⦁ Gender and Careers in the Legal Academy in Germany - Women's difficult path from pioneers to a (still contested) minority. In: Gender and Careers in the Legal Academy, ed. by Ulrike Schultz, Gisela Shaw, Margaret Thornton and Rosemary Auchmuty. Oxford: Hart, 2021, 39-61.
⦁ Gender in Socio-Legal Teaching and Research in Germany. German Law Journal, 21(7), 2020, 1345-1361. doi:10.1017/glj.2020.86 https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/german-law-journal/article/gender-in-sociolegal-teaching-and-research-in-germany/EDF8562F17429BF28E8A2A010FDD551C
⦁ Germany. Resistance and Reactions to Demands of Modernisation. (together with Matthias Kilian) In: Lawyers in 21st Century Societies, vol. 1, ed. by Richard Abel, Hillary Sommerlad, Ole Hammerslev and Ulrike Schultz. Oxford: Hart 2019, 209-233.
⦁ The gender and judging project: equity in Germany. Diversity and the courts. In: Elgar Handbook, ed. by Susan Sterett et al, 2019.
⦁ Gender Issues in the Legal Profession in Germany. In: CoLeGe§Net-Blog des Comparative Legal Gender Studies-Network in Gießen. 2018.
⦁ Mapping the representation of women and men in legal professions across the EU. European Parliament. Interim Report.Committee on Women´s Rights and Gender Equality. Mit Team ösb Consulting Wien. 2017. ⦁ http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/STUD/2017/596804/IPOL_STU(2017)596804_EN.pdf
⦁ Foreword zu “Women in Commercial Legal Practice”. Edited by Jane Ellis, Ashleigh Buckett. IBA Legal and Policy Research Unit. December 2017. https://www.ibanet.org/Article/NewDetail.aspx?ArticleUid=25cfa7d2-9966-4541-8009-64221f45e17c
⦁ Do Female Judges Judge Differently? Empirical Realities of a Theoretical Debate. In: Women Judges in the Muslim World, ed. by Monika Lindbekk and Nadia Sonneveld. Leiden: Brill 2017.
⦁ Sexism / Sexismo. In: Dictionary Crime, Justice and Society. Lisboa: Edicoes Silabo 2016
⦁ Sexism in Law and the Impact of Gender Stereotypes in Legal Proceedings. In: Fight for the Public Space: When Personal is Political, hrsg. von Heinrich Boell Stiftung South Caucasus. Tiflis: 2016, S. 97 – 108. https://ge.boell.org/en/2016/12/29/fight-public-space-when-private-political
⦁ Equal Rights for Men and Women in Germany. How a constitutional principle was
⦁ transformed into reality. In: Fight for the Public Space: When Personal is Political, hrsg. von Heinrich Boell Stiftung South Caucasus. Tiflis: 2016, S. 85 – 96. https://ge.boell.org/en/2016/12/29/fight-public-space-when-private-political
⦁ Schultz, Ulrike; Gisela Shaw, and Brettel Dawson, eds. (2018) Gender and Judicial Education. London, New York: Routledge 2016. (reprint Special Issue: Gender and Judicial Education des International Journal of the Legal Profession, Volume 21, number 3, November 2014, and parts of Volume 22, number 2, July 2015). 345-355
⦁ Judiciary and Gender Topics – German Experience and International Perspectives, O Centro de Estudos Sociais (CES) da Universidade de Coimbra, e-cadernos ces 24/2015, Sonderheft: As mulheres nas profissões jurídicas: experiências e representações ⦁ https://eces.revues.org/1998
⦁ Znachenie vidimosti i artikulyatsii: kar'yera zhenshchiny v sudebnoy sisteme [“I was noticed and I was asked…” Women’s Careers in the Judiciary]. In: Alexander Kondakov (ed.) Obshchestvo i pravo: issledovatel'skie perspektivy [Law and Society: Research Perspectives]. St. Petersburg: Centre for Independent Social Research. 2015, p. 359—38
⦁ Editorial Special Issue: Gender and Judicial Education of the International Journal of the Legal Profession, Volume 21, number 3, November 2014, p. 255 – 257, also ed. together with Gisela Shaw and Brettel Dawson
⦁ Raising Gender Awareness of Judges – Elements for Judicial Education in Germany. In: Gender and Judicial Education, Special Issue des International Journal of the Legal Profession, ed. by Ulrike Schultz, Gisela Shaw and Brettel Dawson, vol. 21, 3, November 2014, p. 345 – 355, Editorial of this journal, p. 255 – 257
⦁ Do German Judges Need Gender Education? In: Schultz, Ulrike / Shaw, Gisela: Gender and Judging. Oxford: Hart 2013 p. 585 – 598
⦁ Gender and Judging (ed. together with Gisela Shaw). Oxford: Hart 2013
⦁ Introduction: Gender and Judging: Overview and Synthesis. In: Schultz, Ulrike / Shaw, Gisela: Gender and Judging. Oxford: Hart 2013, p. 3 – 47
⦁ “I was noticed and I was asked…” Women´s Careers in the Judiciary. Results of an Empirical Study for the Ministry of Justice in North-Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, In: Schultz, Ulrike / Shaw, Gisela: Gender and Judging. Oxford: Hart 2013, p. 145 – 166
⦁ “What did I actually get?” – Communication with Young People in Youth Criminal Cases, Psicologia Culturale, Numero 3, Firera & Liuzzo, 2013 “What have I got?” – Communication with Young Offenders in Juvenile Justice, p. 115-138
⦁ Do female judges judge better? In: Journal of Law & Social Research. Special Issue on Gender and the Legal Profession. 3/2012, S. 29 – 43
⦁ Women in the Judiciary. Hrsg. zus. mit Gisela Shaw. London, New York: Routledge 2012 (reprint des Special Issue: Gender and Judging des International Journal of the Legal Profession, Volume 15, numbers 1-2, March - July 2008)
⦁ Gender Education for the Judiciary. In: International Comparison of Continuing Legal Education, hrsg. Von Kayo Minamino. Tokio: Nihon Kajo Publishing 2012, p. 99 – 126 (Japanese translation)
⦁ Legal Education in Germany - an ever (never?) ending story of resistance to change, RED, Revista de Educación y Derecho, n. 4 (2011), 1-24, ⦁ http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/RED
⦁ Internationalisation, distance teaching and learning and the New Media. Didactic issues – practical models in: HRK (German Rectors´ Conference, Hrsg.: Going International. HRK Conference on International Strategies. Beiträge zur Hochschulreform 10. Bonn: 2010, S. 117 – 126
⦁ Two Examples of Comparative Research and International Teaching. A history of the right women in the right place. Feminist dialogues – motstand, möten och, möjligheter, Festschrift für Harriet Silius, hrsg. Von Marina Lassenius et al. Abo: Abo University Press 2008, S. 65 - 73
⦁ Editorial Special Issue: Gender and Judging of the International Journal of the Legal Profession, Volume 15, numbers 1-2, March - July 2008, S. 1 – 5, also ed. together with Gisela Shaw
⦁ Legal Education in Germany – an ever (never?) ending story of resistance to change. In: Olgiati, Vittorio, Hrsg.: Higher Legal Culture and Postgraduate Legal Education in Europa. Neapel, Rom: Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane 2008, S. 125 – 149
⦁ Women and Gender in the Legal Profession. In: Cane, Peter, Joanne Conaghan (eds): The New Oxford Companion to Law. Oxford. Oxford University Press 2008, p. 1253 f.
⦁ Regulated Deregulation: The Case of the German Legal Profession. In: Felstiner, Bill (ed): Reorganization and Resistance: Legal Professions Confront a Changing World. Oxford: Hart 2005, p. 93-131
⦁ Women´s struggle for equality in the law, editorial, The European Lawyer, February 2004, p. 3
⦁ Women in the World´s Legal Professions. Overview and Synthesis. In: Schultz, Ulrike / Shaw, Gisela (eds): Women in the World´s Legal Professions. Oxford: Hart 2003, p. XXV-LXII
⦁ The Status of Women Lawyers in Germany. In: Schultz, Ulrike / Shaw, Gisela (eds): Women in the World´s Legal Professions. Oxford: Hart 2003, p. 271-291
⦁ Women Lawyers in Germany: Perception and Construction of Femininity. In: Schultz, Ulrike / Shaw, Gisela (Hrsg): Women in the World´s Legal Professions. Oxford: Hart, March 2003, S. 295 - 321
⦁ Editorial Special Issue: Women in the Legal Profession of the International Journal of the Legal Profession, July 2003, S. 131 – 134, also ed. together with Gisela Shaw
⦁ Legal Ethics in Germany. In: International Journal of the Legal Profession, vol. 4, no 1,2/1997, S. 55 - 87
⦁ Women in Law or the Masculinity of the Legal Profession in Germany. In: Febbrajo, Alberto / Nelken, David (eds.): European Yearbook in the Sociology of Law 1993. Milano: Giuffre 1994, S. 229 - 238
⦁ German Advocates: A Highly Regulated Profession. In: Abel, Richard/Lewis, Philip (Hrsg.): Lawyers in Society. Vol. 2: The Civil Law World. Berkeley / Los Angeles / London: University of California Press 1988, S. 124 – 159 (zus. mit E. Blankenburg)
⦁ The Concept of a Fused Legal Profession in Germany. In: The Journal of the Law Society of Scotland 1984, S. 108 - 112
⦁ Images of a Unified Legal Profession. The German Rechtsanwalt. In: The Law Society´s Gazette 1982, S. 1210 – 1212
⦁ The Practicing Lawyer in the Federal Republic of Germany. A Summary of the Major Rules Governing the Profession of West German Lawyers and Their Effects Upon the Manner in Which Foreign Lawyers can Collaborate with West German Collegues. ( ed. by Paul Koessler) In: The International Lawyer 1980, S. 531 – 557
⦁ The Open University. The Institute of Educational Technology (IET). In: Mentor 1980, S. 36 -39