Good Law | Bad Law

Aaron Freiwald, Managing Partner of Freiwald Law and host of the weekly podcast, Good Law | Bad Law, is joined by law professor, Patricia A. Cain, of Santa Clara University School of Law, to discuss sex discrimination, glass-ceilings, and the incredible women law professors who broke down barriers throughout history; Professor Cain is the editor of the newly released book, Paving the Way: The First American Women Law Professors, a book that follows the first wave of trailblazing female law professors and the stage they set for American democracy. The late Herma Hill Kay, of Berkeley, is the author of the book while the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote the foreword.   In today’s episode, Aaron and Pat delve into this special project, one that Justice Ginsburg advocated for tirelessly and admired publicly in the years before her death. Herma Hill Kay, former Dean of UC Berkeley School of Law and Ginsburg’s close professional colleague, wrote Paving the Way to tell the stories of the first fourteen femal