Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor sits down with Yale Law School professor Judith Resnik at Woolsey Hall for a conversation built around her memoir, My Beloved World. Resnik opens with the first majority opinion Sotomayor wrote for the Court, a case Resnik herself argued, noting how the phrase "undocumented immigrant" entered the United States Reports and was later cited by California's Supreme Court. From there the talk follows Sotomayor's path from the Bronx: an admissions interview at Radcliffe she fled, a Yale recruiting visit that felt too radical for a Catholic girl from her neighborhood, and her choice of Princeton after a high school friend met her at the bus station. She describes a professor who circled every adjective in her papers and told her to stop thinking in Spanish, her habit of asking Justice Stevens what a colleague was really arguing, and what affirmative action gave her: the knowledge that a race was being run at all. The session closes on dictating her memoir across three summers.