Spring 2012 Symposium | Columbia Law School

Symposium Honoring the 40th Anniversary of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Joining the Columbia Law Faculty

Friday February 10, 2012

This all-day symposium recognized the 40th anniversary of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg joining the Columbia law faculty as the first female tenure-track professor. This gathering marked not only this important milestone, but also the foundational contributions Justice Ginsburg has made, as jurist, as advocate, and as scholar, to the law of gender-based justice and equality.

10:30  |  Welcome: David Schizer, Dean and the Lucy G. Moses Professor of Law, Columbia Law School, and Katherine Franke, Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law, Columbia Law School

11:00 - 12:00  |  A Conversation with Justice Ginsburg: Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

in conversation with Gillian Metzger, Stanley H. Fuld Professor of Law and Vice Dean, Columbia Law School, and Abbe Gluck, Associate Professor of Law, Columbia Law School

12:00 - 12:45  |  Q & A with Justice Ginsburg

2:15 - 3:30  |  Sex Discrimination Litigation in the 1970s, moderated by Ariela Migdal, Women's Rights Project, American Civil Liberties Union

Kathleen Peratis, Outten & Golden LLP
Wendy Webster Williams, Georgetown Law School
Harriet S. Rabb, Vice President and General Counsel, The Rockefeller University
Herma Hill Kay, Barbara Nachtrieb Armstrong Professor of Law, U.C. Berkeley School of Law
Reva Siegel, Nicholas deB. Katzenbach Professor of Law, Yale Law School

3:45 - 5:00  |  Transnational/International Perspectives on Gender Justice, moderated by Judith Resnik, Arthur Liman Professor of Law, Yale Law School

Hon. Susanne Baer, Justice of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany
Hon. Claire L’Heureux-Dubé, former Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada
Hon. Kate O’Regan, former Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa
Hon. Yvonne Mokgoro, former Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa

5:00 - 6:00  |  Closing and Adjournment to Cocktail Reception