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from the issue of March 30, 2006
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Justice to lecture at law, journalism colleges April 7
Ginsburg to visit campus
BY KELLY BARTLING, UNIVERSITY COMMUNICATIONS
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg will be the Roman L. Hruska Institute for the Administration of Justice lecturer at noon April 7 at the UNL College of Law.
There will be a limited number of tickets available to the public to attend this lecture. To obtain a ticket to the lecture in advance, contact the College of Law at 472-2161.
Justice Ginsburg will also be speaking to College of Journalism and Mass Communications students at 9:30 a.m. April 7.
President Bill Clinton chose Ginsburg as his first appointment to the United States Supreme Court, and she was sworn in Aug.10, 1993. While leaning toward the liberal side of the court's political spectrum, Ginsburg has not hesitated to vote with her conservative colleagues, according to the Oyez Project. Ginsburg has shown a continuing willingness to promote women's rights from the Supreme Court. Ginsburg's position on women's rights, and civil liberties in general, will play an important role in many issues to come.
Ginsburg was born Joan Ruth Bader on March 15, 1933, in Brooklyn, N.Y., a neighborhood mostly of poor, working class Jewish, Italian, and Irish immigrants, and her mother died the day before her daughter's graduation from high school. Ginsburg attended Cornell University and followed her husband Martin to Harvard Law School after he served two years in the Army. When Martin obtained a position in a New York law firm, Ruth Ginsburg transferred from Harvard to Columbia Law School to continue her study. She made law review, becoming the first woman to achieve the honored position at two major schools. After a year at Columbia, Ginsburg graduated at the top of her class.
Ginsburg then worked as a research associate at Columbia Law School before joining the faculty at Rutgers University Law School in 1963. Ginsburg worked during this time to advance several feminist causes. While at Rutgers, she battled for maternity leave rights for schoolteachers in New Jersey. She also began an active participation in the American Civil Liberties Union. In 1972, Ginsburg became the first woman hired with tenure at Columbia Law School. She also became the first director of the ACLU's Women's Rights Project that same year.
She also began appearing before the Supreme Court where she would eventually argue a total of six cases for women's rights. After a brief stint as a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences in Stanford, Calif., President Jimmy Carter nominated Ginsburg to serve as a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals in the D.C. Circuit. She served as a federal appeals judge from 1981 until President Clinton nominated her to succeed retiring Justice Byron R. White.
Ginsburg relishes the opportunity to address the public in speeches, delivering her views eloquently and with a deep sense of commitment.
The first Roman L. Hruska Institute for the Administration of Justice at the University of Nebraska College of Law, in 1996, featured Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy. Other featured guests have been Supreme Court Justice Steven Breyer and Judge Robert Bork. The institute is jointly sponsored by the College of Law, the Nebraska State Bar Foundation and the federal courts in Nebraska.
The institute recognizes the career of Roman L. Hruska, who served as U.S. senator from Nebraska from 1954 to 1977 and who participated prominently in efforts to enhance the administration of justice in the federal courts.
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