In the fall of 1959, Justice Kathryn Mickle Werdegar entered Berkeley Law. Of the 222 students in her class, 218 were men.
William Prosser, nearing the end of his long tenure as dean at Boalt Hall, set the tone — it was an era when a woman in a law school class was merely taking up a man’s space. Prosser, renowned in the area of products liability, taught Werdegar torts. He didn’t hesitate to single her out.
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