Show 1 wo women en in law the law a w as a profession for women is is not an idea originating in the brain of the new woman the woman lawyer has the sanction of both scriptural Script nral and classic authority we read in the book of judges of deborah the wife of lapi dath a prophetess and judge to whom abom the children of israel came f for judgment 1 Aspasia Az pasia of athens was learned in the law and in difficult affairs often I 1 gave wise counsel cosel to pericles her husband sentia and hortensia Hor tensis were well I 1 known lawyers of ancient rome in the fifteenth f century women were employed a as professors probes igors of law in the universities of padua and bologna portia the woman an lawyer lawver in the merchant Me of venice was but the type of a class not uncommon ingedia in mediaeval media val eval times minneapolis I 1 tribune |