Good Law | Bad Law

Who is going to be the future of leadership? And how will women and minorities be considered?   Aaron Freiwald, Managing Partner of Freiwald Law and host of the weekly podcast, Good Law | Bad Law, is joined by law professor and author, Renee Knake Jefferson, to discuss equality and diversity in leadership and power, as well as her most recent book, Shortlisted: Women in the Shadows of the Supreme Court.   Shortlisted gives long-overdue recognition to nine women who were considered but ultimately passed over for a seat on the Supreme Court going back to the 1930s.  In this inspiring and previously untold history of the women considered- but not selected-for the US Supreme Court, Renee and her co-author tell the true stories of these remarkable women shortlisted for the Supreme Court in the decades before Justice Sandra Day O’Connors’ historic appointment in 1981.   In today’s episode, Aaron and Renee discuss these stories and more. Who were these incredible women? And what can we learn from their experie