Season 1, Episode 7: Justice Personified

Lady Justice: Women of the Court

On this episode, examining the female figure that has become the moral face of the court system: Lady Justice. We see statues of Lady Justice in courthouses across America - the scales, the blindfold, the sword. The women discuss what the imagery means to them personally after some reflection and scholarly reading.

We’ll also hear from Yale Law School professor and author Judith Resnik, who has spent years studying the history of Lady Justice and the various ways she is portrayed throughout the world. And, it’s a new year and that means new female faces on our nation’s state courts! We’ll introduce you to some of them.----more----

Episode Resources:

Representing Justice by Judith Resnik and Dennis Curtis

Image on cover: Lady of Justice as depicted on the Victoria County Court in Melbourne, Australia

Other images from the book:

Lady of Justice, Jan R. Mitchell, 1993, Almeric L. Christian Federal Building, St. Croix, United States Virgin Islands

Justice, Romuald Kraus, 1938, United States Federal Courthouse and Post Office, Newark, New Jersey

Lady Justice, Diana K. Moore, 1996, Warren B. Rudman Federal Courthouse, Concord, New Hampshire

Justice, Alfredo Ceschiatti, 1961, Supreme Federal Tribunal, Brasilia, Brazil

Logo of the Judicial Council of the National Bar Association, 1971