Bâtonnières du Monde

“Alone,
we opened doors.

Together,
we are changing the rules.”

Vanessa Bousardo
Paris Vice-Bâtonnière (2024-2025)

« Réparer
            les injustices silencieuses
                 du métier
       d’avocate. »

Vanessa Bousardo
Vice-Bâtonnière de paris

« Réparer
            les injustices silencieuses
                 du métier
       d’avocate. »

Vanessa Bousardo
Vice-Bâtonnière de paris

Equality cannot be decreed.
It must be built.

Bâtonnières du Monde is an international collective of women Bar Presidents and Vice-Presidents from all over the world, driven by the strong conviction that the law is a concrete and powerful lever for equality and for the protection of women and girls.

Our mission
Our collective

Women Bar Presidents and Vice-Presidents, current and former

Countries represented across 5 continents

Year the collective was founded

shared conviction: law as a lever for gender equality

– Our mission

4 commitments,
1 conviction

01

Representation

Promote the role of women in governance and representative positions within bars around the world.

02

Equality

Defend gender equality within the legal profession and beyond, across every sphere of society.

03

Acces to justice

Defend access to the law for all, and ensure that justice remains a space of equality — not privilege.

04

Governance

Encourage inclusive, representative and fair governance models within bars, companies and institutions.

En savoir plus

– The bâtonnières and vice bâtonnières

Multiple paths, one collective voice

The association’s board, supported by the women Bar Presidents and Vice-Presidents who make up the collective. Each new voice broadens our reach.

Meet our members

— Women Bar Presidents and Vice-Presidents

we are taking the floor again

Op-eds, interviews, public statements: Bâtonnières du Monde does not merely observe — it challenges.

Join us · Support us

Bâtonnières du Monde belongs to you.

— Join us

You are a bâtonnière, or a vice-bâtonnière.

Currently serving or having previously served in these roles, at the head of a representative institution of the legal profession?

This collective was founded for you — and it can only grow thanks to you. Every voice that joins it broadens its reach, reinforces its legitimacy and brings equality closer to a concrete reality, in every State, in every bar.

Join us as a bâtonnière

— Support us

You share
our convictions.

Whether you are an individual, a company, a foundation or an institution: your support allows us to carry our voice further — within bar associations, institutions and public debates on an international scale.

Get in touch with us. We will get back to you as soon as possible.

Contact us