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The Legacy of Ruth Bader Ginsburg

The Legacy of Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Author: Scott Dodson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781107062467
Published In: April 2015
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg is a legal icon. In more than four decades as a lawyer, professor, appellate judge, and associate justice of the US Supreme Court, 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. Including chapters written by prominent court watchers and leading scholars from law, political science, and history, it offers diverse perspectives on an array of doctrinal areas and on different time periods in Ginsburg's career. Together, these perspectives document the impressive legacy of one of the most important figures in modern law.

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 B. Katzmann