A workshop on Gender and Judging in the Middle East and Africa: Emerging Scholarship and Debates began today (Thursday) at the Institute. It is being chaired by Monika Lindbekk (University of Oslo), Rania Maktabi (Østfold University College, Norway) and Ulrike Schultz (FernUniversität in Hagen, Germany), and academics from Europe, North and South America, Asia, and Africa are taking part. The workshop aims to contribute to the literature on women and judging by undertaking a comparative study of women in the judiciary in the context of the Middle East and Africa and to complement, enrich and add new aspects to the comparative work on Gender and Judging, Women in the Judiciary and Gender and Judicial Education which Ulrike Schultz and Gisela Shaw have edited in the past ten years. The workshop approaches the subject matter from two angles: First, judicial selection processes and subsequent legal careers; secondly, the workshop addresses gender aspects of judging.