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The legacy of Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Scott Dodson (Editor)
In more than four decades as a lawyer, professor, appellate judge, and associate justice of the US Supreme Court, Ruth Bader Ginsburg has influenced the law and society in real and permanent ways. This book chronicles and evaluates the remarkable achievements Ruth Bader Ginsburg has made over the past half century.
Print Book, English, 2015
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2015
pages cm
9781107062467, 9781107684836, 1107062462, 1107684838
897881843
Part I. Shaping a Legacy: 1. Notes on a life Nina Totenberg; 2. Ruth Bader Ginsburg: law professor extraordinaire Herma Hill Kay; 3. Before Frontiero there was Reed: Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the constitutional transformation of the twentieth century Linda K. Kerber; 4. Struck by stereotype: Ruth Bader Ginsburg on pregnancy discrimination as sex discrimination (with a postscript by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg) Reva B. Siegel and Neil S. Siegel; 5. Beyond the tough guise: Justice Ginsburg's reconstructive feminism Joan C. Williams; Part II. Rights and Remedies: 6. 'Seg academies', taxes, and Judge Ginsburg Stephen B. Cohen; 7. A more perfect union, sex, race, and the VMI case Cary Franklin; 8. Barriers to entry and Justice Ginsburg's criminal procedure jurisprudence Lisa Griffin; 9. A liberal justice's limits: Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the American criminal justice system Aziz Z. Huq; Part III. Structuralism: 10. A revolution in jurisdiction Scott Dodson; 11. Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the interaction of legal systems Paul Schiff Berman; 12. The once-and-future federalist Deborah Jones Merritt; Part IV. The Jurist: 13. Reflections on the confirmation journey of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, summer 1993 Robert A. Katzmann; 14. Justice Ginsburg: demosprudence through dissent Lani Guinier; 15. Justice Ginsburg at oral argument Tom Goldstein; 16. Fire and ice: Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the least likely firebrand Dahlia Lithwick.