New book from Emeritus Gresham College Professor of Law Jo Delahunty

Former Gresham College Professor of Law Jo Delahunty has just had a new book published!

We Set the Bar: Fighting for Equality, Empowerment and Change within the Legal Profession is an exploration of issues within the legal profession, including how power and privilege can create abuses of power. 

They include entry discrimination, toxic work practices, sexual harassment, judicial bullying. The book aims to show how they impact most on women and minorities and offer solutions as to how the Bar can be changed for the better.

By celebrating the highs, but not concealing the lows, of a life in law, Jo’s love letter to her profession ‘sets the bar’ for action: what we can learn from the past and what needs to be done in future to galvanise it into a united, egalitarian, healthy environment for all.

Readers are promised Prof Delahunty’s trademark outspoken style, and a detailed look at life at the legal aid Bar.

Prof Delahunty KC is one of the UK’s leading barristers, specialising in child protection law who, over her 40 years at the Bar, has chosen to champion the vulnerable, using her status and public platforms to speak out about wrongs in her working world.

We Set the Bar: Fighting for Equality, Empowerment and Change within the Legal Profession is published by Bristol University Press, £19.99. ISBN 978-1529221282