Joyce Gutteridge, CBE, was the first woman Legal Adviser at the UK Foreign Office (as it then was). She is pictured here at the Second Session of the UN Committee for Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, in New York in 1962, alongside Ambassador Agda Rossell (Sweden). Gutteridge's Portrait juxtaposes her undoubtedly 'trailblazing' work in international law, with the structural conditions that both hindered and helped her in ascending to a prominent position in the UK FO.
Luiza Leao Soares Pereira is a Lecturer in International Law at the University of Sheffield and PhD Candidate at the University of Cambridge.