Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Wendy W. Williams

"The first book from Ruth Bader Ginsburg since becoming a Supreme Court Justice in 1993--a ... collection of writings and speeches from the woman who has had [an] ... influence on law, women's rights, and popular culture"--

My Own Words

Amanda L. Tyler

Tracing the long history of Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s work for gender equality and a “more perfect Union” 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. Justice, Justice Thou Shalt Pursue is the result of a period of collaboration between Ginsburg and Amanda L. Tyler, a Berkeley Law professor and former Ginsburg law clerk. During Justice Ginsburg's visit to Berkeley, she 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 In this collection, the two bring together that conversation and other materials—many previously unpublished—that share details from Justice Ginsburg's family life and long career.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." In a decades-long career, Ruth Bader Ginsburg was an advocate and jurist for gender equality and for ensuring that the United States Constitution leaves no person behind. Her work transformed not just the American legal landscape, but American society more generally. Ginsburg labored tirelessly to promote a Constitution that is ever more inclusive and that allows every individual to achieve their full human potential. As revealed in these pages, in the area of gender rights, Ginsburg dismantled long-entrenched systems of discrimination based on outdated stereotypes by showing how such laws hold back both genders. And as also shown in the materials brought together here, Justice Ginsburg had a special ability to appreciate how the decisions of the high court impact the lived experiences of everyday Americans. The passing of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in September 2020 as this book was heading into production was met with a public outpouring of grief. With her death, the country lost a hero and national treasure whose incredible life and legacy made the United States a more just society and one in which “We the People,” for whom the Constitution is written, includes everyone.

A Life's Work Fighting for a More Perfect Union

Justice, Justice Thou Shalt Pursue

300 Statements der berühmten Supreme-Court-Richterin - Herausgegeben von Helena Hunt

A collection of key dissenting and majority opinions from U.S. Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. During her 27 years as an associate justice on the U.S. Supreme Court, Ruth Bader Ginsburg became well known for her strongly worded dissenting opinions against the decisions of the conservative majority. Ginsburg was a fierce supporter of women’s rights whose personal experiences helped shape her into a feminist icon who employed logical, well-presented arguments to show that gender discrimination was harmful to all members of society. Ruth Bader Ginsburg Dissents features 15 legal opinions and briefs, including majority and dissenting opinions that Ginsburg drafted during her time on the U.S. Supreme Court and briefs from her career before she was appointed to the court in 1993.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg Dissents

Amy Leigh Campbell

Raising the Bar defines Ruth Bader Ginsburg's contribution to American constitutional law through her efforts as professor, lawyer, and women's rights advocate. Focusing on the years 1971 to 1980, it explores the decade during which Ginsburg founded and was general counsel to the ACLU Women's Rights Project. Several scholars have undertaken similar analyses in the past, but the missing ingredient has long been Ginsburg's own perspective, now available through her donation of private papers. Raising the Bar pinpoints Ginsburg's role in the progression of her complicated, multi-layered strategy to combat gender discrimination from theory to implementation.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the ACLU Women's Rights Project

Raising the Bar

I know this to be true

RUTH BADER GINSBURG über Entschlossenheit, Gleichheit und Leistung

Ruth Bader Ginsburg's last book is a curation of her own legacy, tracing the long history of her work for gender equality and a “more perfect Union.” 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. Justice, Justice Thou Shalt Pursue is the result of a period of collaboration between Ginsburg and Amanda L. Tyler, a Berkeley Law professor and former Ginsburg law clerk. During Justice Ginsburg's visit to Berkeley, she 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." In a decades-long career, Ruth Bader Ginsburg was an advocate and jurist for gender equality and for ensuring that the United States Constitution leaves no person behind. Her work transformed not just the American legal landscape, but American society more generally. Ginsburg labored tirelessly to promote a Constitution that is ever more inclusive and that allows every individual to achieve their full human potential. As revealed in these pages, in the area of gender rights, Ginsburg dismantled long-entrenched systems of discrimination based on outdated stereotypes by showing how such laws hold back both genders. And as also shown in the materials brought together here, Justice Ginsburg had a special ability to appreciate how the decisions of the high court impact the lived experiences of everyday Americans. The passing of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in September 2020 as this book was heading into production was met with a public outpouring of grief. With her death, the country lost a hero and national treasure whose incredible life and legacy made the United States a more just society and one in which “We the People,” for whom the Constitution is written, includes everyone.

Mary Hartnett

Światowy bestseller autorstwa najsłynniejszej sędzi USA, ikony walki o prawa człowieka, Ruth Bader Ginsburg oraz Mary Hartnett i Wendy W. Williams. Moimi słowami to kolekcja esejów, wywiadów i cytatów Ruth, w których poruszane są kwestie równości płci, funkcjonowania systemu prawnego, ale także uniwersalne wartości składające się na szeroko rozumiane człowieczeństwo. Książka pozwala lepiej zrozumieć fenomen Ruth, która jeszcze za życia stała się nie tylko symbolem walki o równość i sprawiedliwość społeczną, ale także prawdziwą ikoną popkultury. Dowcipne, wciągające, a czasem poważne Moimi słowami to fascynujący obraz jednej z najbardziej wpływowych kobiet Ameryki i pozycja obowiązkowa dla osób, które chcą wiedzieć o niej więcej. „Moimi słowami” to nie tylko biografia sędzi Ruth Bader Ginsburg, która wbrew systemowej dyskryminacji, sięgnęła po wszystko, czego odmawiało jej społeczeństwo. To też fascynujący fresk o tym jak w Stanach Zjednoczonych wykuwała się równość dla wszystkich obywateli i obywatelek. – Bart Staszewski Ruth Bader Ginsburg ciężko walczyła o uznanie jej inteligencji, talentu i pracowitości. Angażowała się w Radzie ds. Kobiet Amerykańskiego Stowarzyszenia Wydziałów Prawa w walkę na rzecz równouprawnienia kobiet i ich dostępu do przyzwoitego traktowania. Nie chodziło o czysto formalne „podciągnięcie” kobiet do tego, co prawo przyznaje mężczyznom. Ginsburg domagała się zmiany standardu traktowania obu płci tak, aby miarą nie była wyłącznie męska perspektywa. Oponowała więc przeciw „romantycznemu paternalizmowi” przy dyskryminacji kobiet, nakazującego pobłażliwie traktować „ochronne” wykluczenie kobiet „dla ich dobra”. Takie ujęcie było nowością w USA. Podobny paternalizm bywa tolerowany w Polsce. – prof. Ewa Łętowska

Moimi słowami

In this collection of in-depth interviews - including her last, as well as one of her first - Ruth Bader Ginsburg details her rise from a Brooklyn public school to becoming the second woman on the United States Supreme Court, and her non-stop fight for gender equality along the way. Besides telling the story behind many of her famous court battles, she talks openly about motherhood and her beloved husband, her Jewishness, her surprising friendship with her legal polar opposite Justice Antonin Scalia, her passion for opera, and, her advice to high school students wondering about the law.

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