Lawrence M. Friedman is the Marion Rice Kirwood Professor of Law at Stanford Law School. He is the author of more than forty books and is the most-cited legal historian in the United States.

Joanna L. Grossman is the Ellen K. Solender Endowed Chair in Women and Law at SMU Dedman School of Law. She is the author of nine books, including Nine to Five: How Gender, Sex, and Sexuality Continue to Define the American Workplace.