Ohio State Law Journal

The Jurisprudence of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A Discussion of Fifteen Years on the U.S. Supreme Court

April 10, 2009 | Saxbe Auditorium

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The Ohio State Law Journal is proud to announce its 2009 symposium, "The Jurisprudence of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A Discussion of Fifteen Years on the U.S. Supreme Court." As a litigator, Ruth Bader Ginsburg was known as a pioneer of women's rights, "the Thurgood Marshall of gender equality law," according to President Clinton, who nominated her to the Court.

The Symposium, which will feature a number of the country's foremost legal scholars, will consider Justice Ginsburg's impact on various substantive areas of law and American jurisprudence, more generally. Topics to be discussed will include constitutional law, civil and criminal procedure, statutory interpretation, and labor and employment law.

Justice Ginsburg herself will join us for a live conversation with her official biographer Professor Wendy Webster Williams, of the Georgetown University Law Center, and her former clerk Professor Deborah Jones Merritt, of The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law. More Information

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Started in 1935, the Ohio State Law Journal is a nationally renowned publication of highest quality legal scholarship, managed and staffed entirely by students of the The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law.

Six times a year, we select and publish articles by professors, practitioners, and students on the most salient and important legal issues facing the nation and the world.

Highlights of 2006-07 included our Symposium on Election Law and the Roberts Court and a number of outstanding student Notes. In September 2006, we brought together some of the nation's leading election law and constitutional scholars to discuss the Supreme Court's two recent election law decisions and what those cases can tell us about future election law jurisprudence.

The 2007-2008 Symposium, The School Desegregation Cases and the Uncertain Future of Racial Equality, took place February 21-22, 2008.

We recently published Brodie Butland's Note, The Categorical Imperative: Romer as the Groundwork for Challenging State "Defense of Marriage" Amendments, which was awarded the Donald S. Teller Memorial Award for the student Note that contributes most significantly to the Ohio State Law Journal scholarship. This Note critically examines the differences between state "Defense of Marriage" amendments and assesses their likely vulnerability to a constitutional challenge through the lens of the Supreme Court's 1996 Equal Protection decision in Romer v. Evans.

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