Gillian Mary White (1936-2016, married name Fraser) was an English lawyer and professor of law. She was professor of international law at the
University of Manchester from 1975 until her retirement in 1991. She was the first English woman to be appointed as a professor of law in the United Kingdom, and the first woman to hold such a post in mainland Britain (South African
Claire Palley
Claire Dorothea Taylor Palley, OBE (born 17 February 1931) is a South African academic and lawyer who specialises in constitutional and human rights law. She was the first woman to hold a Chair in Law at a United Kingdom university when she was ...
having been appointed professor of law at
Queen's University Belfast
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in 1970).
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1936 births
2016 deaths
20th-century English lawyers
English women lawyers
English women non-fiction writers
20th-century English women writers
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