Shortlisted in the News
THE HILL “Biden's pledge atones for decades of shortchanging Black women” Read here
POLITICO “13 Legal Experts on How The Breyer Replacement Will Change the Court” Read here
THE GREEN BAG ALMANAC ”Exemplary Legal Writing 2020 Recommendation” Read here
THE HILL ”The Women Shortlisted for the Supreme Court Before Sandra Day O’Connor” Read here
MS. MAGAZINE “Rest in Power - Justice Joan Dempsey Klein Devoted Every Day to Eliminating Gender Discrimination” Read here
NATIONAL LAW JOURNAL “This Year’s SCOTUS Books” Read here
STRICT SCRUTINY PODCAST “I Want More” Listen here
KIRKUS REVIEWS “Two law professors collaborate to tell the political and personal sagas of women publicly considered for appointment to the Supreme Court but never actually nominated by a president. … With fresh research, the authors effectively humanize the women who never received the nominations they deserved.” Read the full review
VOICE OF AMERICA “Female Supreme Court Justices Can Change the Conversation” Read here
LAW360 “Judging a Book: The Honorable Judge Elrod Reviews Shortlisted” Read here
NEW YORK LAW JOURNAL “Portia’s Long Road to the Supreme Court Bench” Read here
HERITAGE FOUNDATION “SCOTUS 101: Shortlists, Snubs & Also-Rans” Listen here
POLITICO “How Amy Coney Barrett Would Reshape the Court — and the Country” Read here
CNN “How RBG Went From a ‘Moderate’ Choice to a Fiery Dissenter” Read here
WASHINGTON INDEPENDENT REVIEW OF BOOKS “A Conversation with Renee Knake Jefferson and Hannah Brenner Johnson” Listen here
SCOTUSblog “Ask the Authors: The Long and Winding Road from Shortlisted to Selected for Female Supreme Court Nominees” Read here
SIGNAL BOOST WITH ZERLINA MAXWELL AND JESS MCINTOSH “Renee Knake Jefferson on her New Book Shortlisted” Listen here
NATIONAL LAW JOURNAL “New Book ‘Shortlisted’ Spotlights 9 Women Passed Over for Supreme Court” Read here
THE HILL “No Men Allowed: With Biden’s VP Shortlist, Women are Finally Gaining Political Ground” Read here
TEXAS STANDARD “What Might Have Been: The Forgotten History of Women on the Supreme Court Shortlist” Listen here
ABA JOURNAL Modern Law Library Podcast. “Meet 9 American women shortlisted for the Supreme Court before Sandra Day O’Connor” Listen here
WNYC All of It With Alison Stewart Show. Listen here
HOUSTON MATTERS “Plenty of women have been shortlisted for the Supreme Court - but mostly for show. The new book ‘Shortlisted’ explores the women considered for the nation’s highest court, mainly to create the appearance of diversity while maintaining the status quo.” Read more and listen here
THE OBSERVER “Written with lawyerly precision and clarity of thought, Shortlisted offers a comprehensive yet succinct look at the history of women in the Supreme Court with implications for women and minorities everywhere. … Straddling many disciplines, this book is well-researched, well-organized and well-argued. I rule in its favor.” Read the full review
THE NATIONAL LAW JOURNAL “New Book ‘ Shortlisted’ Spotlights 9 Women Passed Over for Supreme Court” Read the interview by Washington correspondent Marcia Coyle here
CHICAGO DAILY LAW BULLETIN “New Book Analyzes Women in High Court, Those Shortlisted” Read the full review here
GOOD LAW, BAD LAW PODCAST “Who is going to be the future of leadership? And how will women and minorities be considered?” Listen here
THE FACULTY LOUNGE BLOG POSTS | Introduction | Finding Women on Supreme Court Shortlists | What Does its Mean to be Shortlisted? | The Shortlisting of Phyllis Schlafly
EMPHASIS ADDED podcast interview on the origins of Shortlisted and lessons learned. Listen here
THE HILL “There’s a lesson, here, for anyone crafting a shortlist — whether it’s vice presidents, judges, CEOs, or other positions of power. Women have entered professional life in numbers equal to men for decades but there has been no corresponding ascension at the top of these fields. Biden’s all-female shortlist makes the case that now is the time to intentionally champion women for high echelons of leadership.” Read the full op-ed
TEXAS BAR JOURNAL “Shortlisted is a wake-up call about the persistence of gender inequality. Part of the problem, the authors posit, rests with the gendered media coverage of female nominees; from the earliest contenders to even recent justices like Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor, female nominees have been subjected to media scrutiny of their appearance, marital status, motherhood, and sexuality. This book represents an important step beyond shortlisting and tokenism toward true selection.” Read the full review
JOTWELL “Legal scholarship that creates new avenues of inquiry is inherently appealing, but when it also reveals obscured narratives of power in American society, you have the makings of a truly important contribution. Shortlisted … is all that and an engaging read besides. … While the bulk of the women shortlisted for the high court are white, [the authors] are aware of pitfalls of colorblind feminism, and they highlight the intersectionality barriers that women of color face in gaining status commensurate to their experience and talents. … [T]he book has ignited a brain buzz that is still simmering.” Read the full review
LIBRARY JOURNAL “An excellent contribution to the fields of law, history, political science, and gender studies, and essential for anyone who values diversity.” Read the full review
Watch Jefferson speak with C-SPAN’s Q&A host Susan Page about Shortlisted.
Jefferson sits down with Areva Martin to discuss the historic confirmation of Ketanji Brown Jackson.
Author Renee Knake Jefferson discusses Shortlisted on MSNBC’s The Week with Joshua Johnson and reflects on the legacy of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Click here to listen in on a fabulous conversation among the authors of Shortlisted with Strict Scrutiny hosts Leah Litman and Melissa Murray.