4.2.12 WC: 191694 When I began teaching, Harvard Law School had been admitting women for only about a decade, and some of the professors still didn’t believe that women could make really good lawyers. I encountered this prejudice at the end of my first year of teaching. The star student in my first year class was a woman from New York who eventually became a distinguished judge. She received an A grade on the final exam. Three of her other first year teachers also gave her A grades, but her contracts teacher gave her a D. She came to me upset about her D grade and asked me to read her exam. I read it and it was clearly of A quality. I was sure that her contracts professor had simply made a transcription error and so I went to his office to discuss it. He glanced at the exam and said, “Oh yes, I remember her. She doesn’t think like a lawyer. That’s why I gave her a D.” I later learned that this professor has been opposed to admitting women to Harvard Law School because he believed that women don’t think like lawyers. This episode persuaded me that something had to be done about the lingering prejudices of some of the faculty. Accordingly, I proposed “blind grading” of all exams, so that professors could not find out the gender of the student until after the grades were submitted. Several years later, my wife and I, and my son Elon, had dinner with then President Clinton and the First Lady. We had invited them to our synagogue on Martha’s Vineyard for Rosh Hashanah services and they asked us to join them for dinner after the services. (More on this later) During dinner, I asked Hillary why she had chosen Yale Law School over Harvard. She laughed and said, “Harvard didn’t want me.” I said I was sorry that Harvard had turned her down, but she replied “no, I received letters of acceptance from both schools.” She explained that a then boyfriend had invited her to The Harvard Law School Christmas dance, at which several Harvard Law School professors were in attendance. She