Kempin, Emily Spyri
1853 - 1901

Details
Alias: Emily Spyri
Born: 1853
Died: 1901
Ethnicity: White/Caucasian
Professional Facts
Practice Area:
Civil Rights
Criminal Law
Profession:
Women's suffrage
Criminal law
Regions and States of Practice:
NY, Northeast
Legal Education:
University of Zurich, 1887
Positions During Her Career:
Works and delivers lectures for the Arbitration Society (1889)
Holds the Women's Law Class at New York University (1889-1891)
Lectures at the University of Zurich (1891-?)
Opens a law practice in Berlin, Germany (?-1898)
Further Research Materials

References:
Making History: Lelia Robinson's Index to American Women Lawyers
Barbara Allen Babcock, Making History: Lelia Robinson's Index to American Women Lawyers. Stanford Law School (July 1998)
All the Allies of Each: Lelia Robinson's Portrait of Early Women Lawyers in America
Julia Steele, All the Allies of Each: Lelia Robinson's Portrait of Early Women Lawyers in America, 1998
Hasler, Eveline. Flying with wings of wax : the story of Emily Kempin-Spyri. New York : Fromm International, (1993).
N.Y. Univ., For the Better Protection of their Rights: A History of the First Fifty Years of the Women's Legal Education Society and the Woman's Law Class at New York University 10 (1940).
The First Women's Law Class in the World, 3 (2) The American Magazine 117
Angels and Amazons: A Hundred Years Of American Women
Inez Haynes Irwin Gillmore, Angels And Amazons: A Hundred Years Of American Women. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Doran & Company (1933).
Isabella Mary Petus, The Legal Education of Women, 61 Alb. L.J. 325, 329 (1900)
Women Lawyers in the United States
Lelia J. Robinson, Women Lawyers in the United States, 2 The Green Bag 10 (1890)
Dustin, Doings of Women, The Los Angeles Times, November 16, 1890, at 11
Emily Kempin, Hypnotism and its Relation to Jurisprudence, 9 The Arena 278 (1890)
Emily Kempin, The Alienist and the Law, 1 The Arena 441 (1890)
Law School for Women. Dr Emily Kempin Will Start a College for Girls, N.Y. Times, Oct. 5, 1889, at 2
Emily Kempin, Obligation and Contract, 1 The Advocate 369 (1889)

Links:
Legal Education for Women: Dr. Emily Kempin

Student Papers:
Dr. Emily Kempin
DiMuzio, Elena, 2004
Potential Paper Topics:
Her work with the Arbitration Society
Her appeal to join the New York State Bar (covered by a paper)
A summary of some of her legal scholarship has been addressed by a paper
Research into her practice in Germany