My Own Words is a curated selection of speeches, legal briefs, and judicial opinions written by Ruth Bader Ginsburg over five decades. Compiled with her biographers Mary Hartnett and Wendy W. Williams, the collection begins with the Justice’s junior high school editorials and progresses through her academic career and leadership at the ACLU Women’s Rights Project. The text details her litigation strategy for establishing gender equality under the Fourteenth Amendment and includes her landmark Supreme Court dissents. It also provides personal context through her tributes to colleagues like Sandra Day O’Connor and her reflections on the role of the Hebrew concept of Tikkun Olam in her legal philosophy.
This book serves students of constitutional law and advocates for civil liberties who require a primary source record of the development of gender discrimination jurisprudence. Readers gain an understanding of the procedural mechanics of the Supreme Court and the specific rhetorical techniques used to argue for institutional change. It offers a technical look at how legal arguments are constructed to persuade a bench and provides historical insight into the shifting interpretation of equal protection during the late twentieth century.
Clear-cut; a moderate read.
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- Published
- 2016
- Language
- EN
