Lady Justice: Women, the Law, and the Battle To Save America. By Dahlia Lithwick. Penguin Press, New York, 368 pages, $29 ...

LADY JUSTICE: Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America, by Dahlia Lithwick. In 1873, the U.S. Supreme Court decided that women had no constitutional right to practice law.

Her new book is just out, Lady Justice: Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America. So, Dahlia, if you can talk about — well, I mean, we’re seeing state after state ban abortion.

Law journalist Dahlia Lithwick profiles female lawyers and judges who challenged the Trump administration in her new book, 'Lady Justice.' ...

The sword represents Lady Justice’s commitment to administering the law decisively. Sometimes that involves boring stuff like enforcing zoning codes (unless you know someone on council).

Facebook X Reddit Email Save. The classic image of Lady Justice depicts her as blindfolded, meant to symbolize the objectivity and impartiality of the law. In 2019, for many reasons, that image ...

As the Yale Law School professors Judith Resnik and Dennis Curtis show in an unusual new book just out, “Representing Justice” — an academic treatise on threats to the modern judiciary that ...

The scales of justice tilted in favor of a wooden statue in front of a law office after a DuPage County judge ruled this week that an order by the village of Hinsdale to remove the carving ...

For centuries, Lady Justice has stood to represent the principle of the law being blind. Here is a deeper look into its symbolism, history and colonial ties. Monday, Jul 07, 2025 ...

When I first cracked open Dahlia Lithwick’s “Lady Justice: Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America,” I wasn’t sure if it was coming out at the worst possible time, or the best ...