Yale Journal of Law & Feminism 

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Cover and back cover, Vol. 19 No. 1, 2007.

 

For more information about the cover illustration, read this article from 2015, “Dis-covering Our Cover” by Ursula Werner: https://openyls.law.yale.edu/handle/20.500.13051/6825

Justitia-our icon of justice. She sits or stands above courthouses or in courtrooms, supposedly overseeing and inspiring choices between right and wrong. And we trust in her competence-until we are confronted with a body of law such as sex discrimination law, in which so much seems unjust. Thus, we approach her. Is she really what she seems?