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Judicial conversation: Hilary Heilbron in conversation with Ruth Herz

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Venue: Birkbeck Clore Management Centre

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Ruth Herz will talk to Hilary Heilbron about her mother, Dame Rose Heilbron, a world famous icon of the 1950s and 1960s. Hilary's biography charts her mother’s successful legal career, and how as a working wife and mother, she navigated her way to an isolated position of female seniority in a stoically masculine field. Rose Heilbron was the first woman Judge in England in 1956, the first woman judge to sit at the Old Bailey, and the second woman to be appointed a High Court judge.

Birkbeck Judicial Conversations are events that bring together leading judicial figures, scholars and students. Their aim is to promote understanding of judicial practice, promote judicial scholarship and to generate a dialogue between the judiciary and scholars on a national and international basis. All events are free and open to all, but as space is limited, booking is required for each event.

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