This year marks two important events relating to women and the law. 2020 is the hundredth anniversary of the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment, which guaranteed women the right to vote. It is also the first year in which the editors-in-chief of all of the nation’s top sixteen law reviews are women.

To mark these two historic events, the Stanford Law Review has come together with our peer journals to publish a joint issue, entitled “Women & Law.” The issue features fourteen personal essays by women in the legal academy and legal practice reflecting on the past century for women in law and politics. Read on to explore a piece by Maggie Blackhawk, published by SLR, and the rest of this special issue.