The legacy of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
By: edited by Scott Dodson, University of California, Hastings, College of Law
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 314
ISBN-13: 9781107062467; 9781107684836
Subjects: Judges; Law; Biography
Description: As a lawyer, professor, appellate judge, and associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, Ginsburg has influenced the law and society in real and permanent ways. This collection of essays chronicles and evaluates the remarkable achievements she has made over the past half century. Readers will discover diverse perspectives on an array of doctrinal areas and on different time periods in Ginsburg's career, creating an impressive legacy of one of the most important figures in modern law.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Notes on a life / Nina Totenberg; title: Ruth Bader Ginsburg : law professor extraordinaire / Herma Hill Kay; title: Before Frontiero there was Reed : Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the constitutional transformation of the twentieth century / Linda K. Kerber; title: Struck by stereotype : Ruth Bader Ginsburg on pregnancy discrimination as sex discrimination / Neil S. Siegel and Reva B. Siegel; title: Postscript by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg; title: Beyond the tough guise : Justice Ginsburg's reconstructive feminism / Joan C. Williams; title: "Seg academies," taxes, and Judge Ginsburg / Stephen B. Cohen; title: A more perfect union : sex. race, and the VMI case / Cary Franklin; title: Barriers to entry and justice Ginsburg's criminal procedure jurisprudence / Lisa Kern Griffin; title: A liberal justice's limits : Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the American criminal justice system / Aziz Z. Huq; title: A revolution in jurisdiction / Scott Dodson; title: Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the interaction of legal systems / Paul Schiff Berman; title: The once and future federalist / Deborah Jones Merritt; title: Reflections on the confirmation journey of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, summer 1993 / Robert A. Katzmann; title: Justice Ginsburg : demosprudence through dissent / Lani Guinier; title: Oral argument as a bridge between the briefs and the court's opinion / Tom Goldstein; title: Fire and ice : Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the least likely firebrand / Dahlia Lithwick.