The Recorder, December 29, 2009 by Petra Pasternak
http://www.law.com/jsp/ca/PubArticleCA.jsp?id=1202437298371

Kay’s career reflects the evolution of attitudes about, and expectations of, women…. Kay herself co-authored the state’s no-fault divorce law, which fellow Berkeley law professor Richard Buxbaum recalls as bellwether legislation. “She caught the temper of the times and led it.”

Kay said it wasn’t feminism so much as the civil rights movement that brought more women to law school. “The first women who came in were motivated by problems of race discrimination, not by sex discrimination,” Kay said.

Los Angeles Times, June 27, 2009 by Maura Dolan
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-jackson-custody27-2009jun27,0,1715625.story

Although UC Berkeley law professor Herma Hill Kay said it was “not a slam dunk” that ex-wife Debbie Rowe would win custody, four other experts in family law said she would have the advantage if there is a custody battle.

-Legal Pad Blog, May 26, 2009 by Petra Pasternak
http://legalpad.typepad.com/my_weblog/2009/05/prop-8-stands-but-what-about-the-18k-marriages.html

“There is absolutely no distinction in the law’s eyes between those gay married couples and heterosexual married couples,” constitutional law scholar Jesse Choper said. “They have exactly the same rights,” he said, at least under California law.

It’s probably a bittersweet outcome for those lucky 36,000 people, says Goodwin Liu, a constitutional and civil rights professor. “The upholding of Prop 8 means they are viewed as an exception rather than the rule, and that’s often an uncomfortable position to be in.”

Those who didn’t marry in that window continue to have the same legal rights and obligations they’ve always had under the domestic partnership laws, said Herma Hill Kay, who teaches family law. Those include rights to property, inheritance, and all “the tangible aspects of married life.”

KQED Special Broadcast, May 15, by Judy Campbell
http://www.kqed.org/epArchive/R805151601

“I think it’s absolutely historic. I think it does go beyond gay marriage, because the court took the opportunity to decide that the sexual orientation is a suspect classification under the California State Constitution, just like gender and race and religion. They’ve never done that until today, and so that means that the gay and lesbian activists now can look to apply this new strict scrutiny standard to other areas where they’re being discriminated against.”

Los Angeles Times, June 25, by John Horn
http://www.law.berkeley.edu/news/mediacoverage/inthenews/June-07.pdf#kay

“I think they have a very strong case…at the very least, you should get an apportionment of the profits…”