 Ruth
Bader Ginsburg
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Thursday, June 19, 2003
8:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Keynote: Women and the Law
Ruth Bader Ginsburg has served as an associate justice of the United
States Supreme Court since August 1993, following her thirteen years
as a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the District
of Columbia Circuit. For much of the 1960s and 1970s, Ginsburg was
a professor of law, first at Rutgers University School of Law and
then Columbia Law School, where she became the first tenured woman
professor. During this time she was also a pioneering litigator
for women's rights and in 1971 was instrumental in launching the
Women’s Rights Project of the American Civil Liberties Union.
She served as the ACLU’s general counsel from 1973 to 1980
and argued many of the constitutional law cases that redefined women’s
legal position in the 1970s. In 1998, Justice Ginsburg established
at the Library of Congress a collection of her personal and professional
papers, which includes her many speeches and writings reflecting
her long advocacy of women's issues and her interests in gender
law and Scandinavian law.
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www.supremecourtus.gov/about/about.html
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