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urn:uuid:e77ce638-6a84-43fd-a55d-6fcbae2e2c7f 03 15 9781911507567 00 EB E107 10 10 02 30495121 01 02 Reimagining Law and Justice 01 01 Law and Justice in the 1950s Case Studies From a Neglected Decade 1 A01 Fiona Cownie Fiona Cownie is Professor of Law Emerita at Keele University. She has published widely in the field of legal education, and is the lead editor of the Elgar Concise Encyclopaedia of Legal Education. A former Pro Vice Chancellor (Education and Student Experience), she is currently researching the life of Claire Palley, the UK’s first female professor of law. 2 B01 Rosemary Auchmuty Rosemary Auchmuty is Professor of Law Emerita at the University of Reading. Her research focuses on feminist approaches to property law, legal history, sexuality, marriage, legal education and girls’ school stories. With Erika Rackley, she co-edited Women’s Legal Landmarks: Celebrating Women and the Law in the UK and Ireland (Hart, 2019) and is now co-editing a follow-up volume on the Interwar Years. 01 eng 00 252 03 23 1950s 12 HBTB 23 Law 10 LAW060000 10 HIS037070 23 History 23 legal history 12 LN 12 1DBKE 23 England 12 1DBKW 23 Wales 12 3JJP 23 London 23 legal education 23 social 23 justice 23 divorce law 23 Wolfenden Report 23 family law 23 environmental law 01 06 03 00 The 1950s was a decade of considerable legal development in England and Wales, despite often being regarded as very conservative in contrast to the more radical 1960s and 1970s. This collection illustrates the breadth of those developments, providing a sociolegal perspective on a range of topics across criminal, property, family, commercial, environmental and public law, and legal education. It examines the social, political and economic context of the decade to reveal how legal developments in the 1950s have much greater significance than has generally been acknowledged to date. Drawing on case studies from the Great London Smog in 1952, the treatment of women in the Wolfenden Report and divorce law reform, to the takeover battle for the Savoy Hotel in 1953, law on the radio and more, the chapters throw new light on current debates about the relationship between law and issues of justice, inclusion and equality in different spheres of activity.Written for historians and legal specialists alike, this book explores the stories behind the laws in this neglected decade. In revealing the historical context, arguments and controversies raised at the time and the different perspectives of the parties involved, it offers a greater understanding of why we have the law we have now and of these issues as they continue to be played out in the early twenty-first century. 04 00 <ul> <li> Introduction Rosemary Auchmuty & Fiona Cownie </li> <li> 1 Shaking Up the Savoy Sally Wheeler </li> <li> 2 The Great London Smog of 1952; its consequences and contemporary relevance” Sue Farran </li> <li> 3 Direct Line to Beeching and Beyond? The Failure of the 1950s Railway Modernisation Plan Emma Jones </li> <li> 4 Professor Gower, Complacent Academics and Legal Education Fiona Cownie </li> <li> 5 A University in (or of) Wales? Vaisey’s Folly and St. David’s College, Lampeter R. Gwynedd Parry </li> <li> 6 Radio, The Listener and The Times: lessons from the 1950s in the public understanding of law Simon Lee </li> <li> 7 Divorce Law Reform and Feminism in the 1950s Rosemary Auchmuty </li> <li> 8 Mrs. Gladys Hutchinson, Lord Upjohn, and the case of the bankrupt “spendthrift…ne-er-do-well and… waster” John Tribe </li> <li> 9 The Wolfenden Report, homosexuality, and women Caroline Derry </li> </ul> University of London Press 01 University of London Press 04 01 20260122 02 WORLD 06 15 9781911507543 06 15 9781911507536 06 15 9781911507567 WORLD 09 University of London Press 20 01