Judging Female Judges: Sir John Fortescue’s Vision of Women as Judges in De Natura Legis Naturae

John Fortescue Lord Chief Justice(1395-1485)

Judging Female Judges: Sir John Fortescue’s Vision of Women as Judges in De Natura Legis Naturae  Emma Hawkes Limina, Volume 8, (2002) Abstract The fifteenth-century English legal commentary, De Natura Legis Naturae, is probably the most obscure of Sir John Fortescue’s renowned writings. Fortescue’s text examines female authority more explicitly than his other writings, there has, […]

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