An Afternoon with Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg ’59
Ruth Bader Ginsburg was nominated by President Clinton as Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court in June 1993 and took the oath of office on August 10, 1993. Prior to that appointment, she served from 1980 to 1993 on the bench of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. From 1972 to 1980, Justice Ginsburg was a professor at Columbia University School of Law; from 1963 to 1972, she served on the law faculty of Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey.
In 1971, then-Professor Ginsburg was instrumental in launching the Women’s Rights Project of the American Civil Liberties Union. Throughout the 1970s she litigated a series of cases solidifying a constitutional principle against gender-based discrimination. Her bar association activities have included service on the board of editors of the American Bar Association Journal, and as secretary, board member, and executive committee member of the American Bar Foundation. Justice Ginsburg served on the council of the American Law Institute and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society. She has written widely in the areas of civil procedure, conflict of laws, constitutional law, and comparative law.
Justice Ginsburg's husband, Martin D. Ginsburg, is a professor of tax law at Georgetown University Law Center; her daughter, Jane C. Ginsburg, is a professor of literary and artistic property law at Columbia Law School; and her son, James S. Ginsburg, is a producer of classical recordings.
In 1971, then-Professor Ginsburg was instrumental in launching the Women’s Rights Project of the American Civil Liberties Union. Throughout the 1970s she litigated a series of cases solidifying a constitutional principle against gender-based discrimination. Her bar association activities have included service on the board of editors of the American Bar Association Journal, and as secretary, board member, and executive committee member of the American Bar Foundation. Justice Ginsburg served on the council of the American Law Institute and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society. She has written widely in the areas of civil procedure, conflict of laws, constitutional law, and comparative law.
Justice Ginsburg's husband, Martin D. Ginsburg, is a professor of tax law at Georgetown University Law Center; her daughter, Jane C. Ginsburg, is a professor of literary and artistic property law at Columbia Law School; and her son, James S. Ginsburg, is a producer of classical recordings.
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