Women and the Law (published in 1984) was the first UK book comprehensively to examine the gendered nature of the law itself and the legal interrelationships between women’s private and public lives and between women and men. It was not a legal textbook and was crafted around women’s experiences of life, rather than around conventional legal categories. It was, however, a work of legal scholarship, written by two women law academics, Brenda Hoggett (Lady Hale) and Susan Atkins. This chapter will consider how the idea of the book was conceived, the experiences and people who influenced Lady Hale’s thinking, the process of writing the book and her unique contribution, and the impact that the book had on others and on Lady Hale herself, as law reformer and judge.