Law Archives - Infinite Women

Mary Ann Shadd Cary

Mary Ann Shadd Cary was one of the most outspoken and articulate abolitionists of the 19th century.

New Zealand human-rights campaigner and trail-blazing lawyer. As a community activist from the early 1950s she fought for social and political reform, while as a lawyer she spoke for those who had no voice and pursued equal rights for all.

Matilda Meech

New Zealand shopkeeper and businesswoman. In 1891, Meech filed suit against Wellington City Council for the pollution of her baths caused by their destructor plant; she won the case and £200 as compensation

Rāhui Te Kiri Tenetahi

Ngāti Wai and Ngāti Whatua woman of mana, ship owner and land claimant

Effie Richardson

New Zealand landowner and litigant

Fuzz Barnes

New Zealand law clerk and political activist

Dr Mary Redmond

Irish solicitor and founder of the Irish Hospice Foundation

Rosemary Nelson

Irish human rights lawyer

Maria Pellegrina Amoretti

In 1777, after being rejected by the University of Turin, Maria Pellegrina Amoretti graduated at 21 in Iure utroque (civil and canon Law) at the University of Pavia, defending her doctoral theses.