Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Joan Ruth Bader Ginsburg ( ; Bader; March 15, 1933 – September 18, 2020) was an American lawyer and jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1993 until her death in 2020. She was nominated by President Bill Clinton to replace retiring justice Byron White, and at the time was viewed as a moderate consensus-builder. Ginsburg was the first Jewish woman and the second woman to serve on the Court, after Sandra Day O'Connor. During her tenure, Ginsburg authored the majority opinions in cases such as ''United States v. Virginia''(1996), ''Olmstead v. L.C.''(1999), ''Friends of the Earth, Inc. v. Laidlaw Environmental Services, Inc.''(2000), and ''City of Sherrill v. Oneida Indian Nation of New York''(2005). Later in her tenure, Ginsburg received attention for passionate dissents that reflected liberal views of the law. She was popularly dubbed "the Notorious R.B.G.", a moniker she later embraced.Ginsburg was born and grew up in Brooklyn, New York. Just over a year later her older sister and only sibling, Marilyn, died of meningitis at the age of six. Her mother died shortly before she graduated from high school. She earned her bachelor's degree at Cornell University and married Martin D. Ginsburg, becoming a mother before starting law school at Harvard, where she was one of the few women in her class. Ginsburg transferred to Columbia Law School, where she graduated joint first in her class. During the early 1960s she worked with the Columbia Law School Project on International Procedure, learned Swedish, and co-authored a book with Swedish jurist Anders Bruzelius; her work in Sweden profoundly influenced her thinking on gender equality. She then became a professor at Rutgers Law School and Columbia Law School, teaching civil procedure as one of the few women in her field.
Ginsburg spent much of her legal career as an advocate for gender equality and women's rights, winning many arguments before the Supreme Court. She advocated as a volunteer attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union and was a member of its board of directors and one of its general counsel in the 1970s. In 1980, President Jimmy Carter appointed her to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, where she served until her appointment to the Supreme Court in 1993. Between O'Connor's retirement in 2006 and the appointment of Sonia Sotomayor in 2009, she was the only female justice on the Supreme Court. During that time, Ginsburg became more forceful with her dissents, such as with ''Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.''(2007).
Despite two bouts with cancer and public pleas from liberal law scholars, she decided not to retire in 2013 or 2014 when President Barack Obama and a Democratic-controlled Senate could appoint and confirm her successor. Ginsburg died at her home in Washington, D.C., in September 2020, at the age of 87, from complications of metastatic pancreatic cancer. The vacancy created by her death was filled days later by Amy Coney Barrett. The result was one of three major rightward shifts in the Court since 1953, following the appointment of Clarence Thomas to replace Thurgood Marshall in 1991 and the appointment of Warren Burger to replace Earl Warren in 1969. Provided by Wikipedia
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A selective survey of English language studies on Scandinavian law by Ginsburg, Ruth Bader, 1933-2020
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A selective survey of English language studies on Scandinavian law / by Ginsburg, Ruth Bader, 1933-2020
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Civil procedure in Sweden / by Ginsburg, Ruth Bader, 1933-2020
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Justice, justice thou shalt pursue : a life's work fighting for a more perfect union / by Ginsburg, Ruth Bader, 1933-2020, Tyler, Amanda L.
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Conversations with RBG : Ruth Bader Ginsburg on life, love, liberty, and law / by Rosen, Jeffrey, 1964-, Ginsburg, Ruth Bader, 1933-2020
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Justice, justice thou shalt pursue : a life's work fighting for a more perfect union / by Ginsburg, Ruth Bader, 1933-2020, Tyler, Amanda L.
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Justice, justice thou shalt pursue : a life's work fighting for a more perfect union / by Ginsburg, Ruth Bader, 1933-2020, Tyler, Amanda L.
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Text, cases and materials on sex-based discrimination by Davidson, Kenneth M., Ginsburg, Ruth Bader, 1933-2020, Kay, Herma Hill
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My own words / by Ginsburg, Ruth Bader, 1933-2020, Hartnett, Mary Eileen, 1959-, Williams, Wendy (Writer on law)
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Supreme Court and appellate advocacy : mastering oral argument / by Frederick, David C.
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The art of oral advocacy / by Frederick, David C.
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The constitutional jurisprudence of the Federal Republic of Germany by Kommers, Donald P., Miller, Russell A., 1969-
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Supreme Court and appellate advocacy : mastering oral argument / by Frederick, David C.
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Judge Richard S. Arnold : a legacy of justice on the federal bench / by Price, Polly J.
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Supreme Court decisions and women's rights : milestones to equality /
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Supreme Court and appellate advocacy / by Frederick, David C.
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Judge for yourself : clarity, choice and action in your legal career / by Grogan, Miriam Bamberger, 1966-
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