Justice, justice thou shalt pursue : a life's work fighting for a more perfect union

Justice, justice thou shalt pursue A life's work fighting for a more perfect union

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Book - 2021

"In the fall of 2019, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg visited the University of California, Berkeley School of Law to deliver the first annual Herma Hill Kay Memorial Lecture in honor of her friend, the late Herma Hill Kay, with whom Ginsburg had coauthored the very first casebook on sex-based discrimination in 1974. [This book] is the result of a period of collaboration between Ginsburg and Amanda L. Tyler, a Berkeley Law professor and former Ginsburg law clerk. During her visit to Berkeley, Justice Ginsburg told her life story in conversation with Tyler. In this collection, the two bring together that conversation and other materials (many previously unpublished) that share details from Justice Ginsburg's family life and long career.... These include notable briefs and oral arguments, some of Ginsburg's last speeches, and her favorite opinions that she wrote as a Supreme Court justice (many in dissent), along with the statements that she read from the bench in those important cases. Each document was chosen by Ginsburg and Tyler to tell the story of the litigation strategy and optimistic vision that were at the heart of Ginsburg's unwavering commitment to the achievement of 'a more perfect Union'"--

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Subjects
Ginsburg, Ruth Bader.
United States. > Supreme Court.
Judges > United States.
Autobiographies.
Genres
Autobiographies
Published
Oakland, California : University of California Press [2021]
Language
English
Main Author
Ruth Bader Ginsburg (author)
Other Authors
Amanda L. Tyler (author)
Physical Description
xi, 271 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN
9780520381926
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Herma Hill Kay Memorial Lecture
  • Tribute to Herma Hill Kay: Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
  • In Conversation: Professor Amanda L. Tyler and the Honorable Ruth Bader Ginsburg
  • Ruth Bader Ginsburg the Advocate
  • Moritz v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue
  • Brief
  • Frontiero v. Richardson
  • Oral Argument
  • Weinberger v. Wiesenfeld
  • Oral Argument
  • Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Associate Justice, Supreme Court of the United States
  • Prepared Statement on the Nomination of Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Herma Hill Kay
  • United States v. Virginia
  • Bench Announcement
  • Majority Opinion
  • Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.
  • Bench Announcement
  • Dissenting Opinion
  • Shelby County v. Holder
  • Bench Announcement
  • Dissenting Opinion
  • Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc.
  • Bench Announcement
  • Dissenting Opinion
  • Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Recent Speeches
  • Lessons Learned from Louis D. Brandeis
  • Remarks at the Genesis Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award Ceremony
  • Remarks at a Naturalization Ceremony
  • Afterword
  • Timeline: The Life of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Review by Kirkus Book Review

Highlights from the career of the iconic jurist. Anyone needing more reasons to admire Ruth Bader Ginsburg (1933-2020) will find them in this inspiring collection of speeches (all previously unpublished), briefs, oral arguments, dissenting opinions, and a candid conversation with Tyler, a professor at the Berkeley School of Law who served as Ginsburg's law clerk during the 1999 term. One of only nine women in her Harvard Law School class of over 500 students, Ginsburg at the time was also raising her first child, and she endured the added burden of caring for her husband when he became stricken with cancer. After graduating in 1959, she discovered that "employers were upfront about wanting no lady lawyers," especially if they were Jewish and a mother. With great difficulty, she found a clerkship. In 1963, she joined the Rutgers Law School faculty and later became director of the ACLU's Women's Rights Project and one of the organization's four general counsels. In 1993, Bill Clinton appointed her to the Supreme Court. From her 27-year tenure, Ginsburg includes several opinions along with bench announcements summarizing her dissents in cases that dealt with gender discrimination, voting rights, equal pay, and a corporation's right to impose religious beliefs on employees. Ginsburg's legal writings reflect the clarity and cogent reasoning that she claimed were influenced by Justice Louis Brandeis, whom she praised for his "craftsmanship, sense of collegiality," judicial restraint, and "readiness to defend civil rights and liberties when the values our Constitution advances required it." The aim of the fact-filled Brandeis brief, she said, "was to educate the Judiciary about the real world in which the laws under inspection operated." Among other decisive influences, Ginsburg cited her Jewish heritage: "The demand for justice, for peace, and for enlightenment runs through the entirety of Jewish history and Jewish tradition." An informative perspective on a tireless advocate for fairness and equity. Copyright (c) Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.

Copyright (c) Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.

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