The trailblazing women and the law project

This article seeks to alert the readership of the Alternative Law Journal to an ongoing project on Trailblazing Women and the Law (‘The Trailblazing Project’). The Trailblazing Project, funded in part by the Australian Research Council under its Linkage grant system,(1) aims to create, showcase and analyse the experiences of seven decades of Australia’s pioneer, ‘trailblazing’, women lawyers.(2) In
this contribution I offer a brief introduction to the Trailblazing Project and the oral history interviews completed to date and the aims of the Project, which bring together the disciplines of gender, oral history, biography, law and citizenship, social networks and cultural informatics, and ePublication and women’s history archiving.(3)