Lady Justice

Between the starry-eyed opening and grim conclusion, she profiles women lawyers whose stories provide a contextualizing capsule tour of the era and offers some bracing hope. Though the text is necessarily bristling with the names of court cases, Lithwick’s writing is friendly to lay readers and marked by her trademark pithy wit and an endearing faith in the legal system's promise. “Women plus law equals magic,” she concludes. Required reading for this post-Dobbs world.