‘Women, Marriage and Law in Scotland: Historical and Legal Perspectives’ is an Economic and Social Research Council-funded project at the University of Glasgow. Led by Dr Rebecca Mason, the project aims to bring together historians, policy-makers, legal practitioners, and researchers interested in the particularities of women’s access to law in Scotland. The project’s aim is to establish a greater understanding of women’s legal status in early modern Scotland  as evidenced in the ways in which their marital status and property rights were negotiated before the courts, and to engage with legal practitioners and policy makers in order to show that this history is vitally important in order to understand women’s access to justice today.