LLP ZOOM: Before She Was “Notorious”: How Ruth Bader Ginsburg Got Gender Equality into the Constitution

Instructor: Philippa Strum
January 19 (Thursday) 1-2:30 p.m. 300 pesos ZOOM ONLY

RBG, as she came to be called, was a good judge, but so were many others. She wouldn’t have become a popular icon had it not been for the gender equality cases that she, a young attorney, took to the U.S. Supreme Court in the 1970s. There, her challenge was to give the justices what she described as the equivalent of a grade school education about the many ways in which American women were discriminated against, and the reason she believed such discrimination was unconstitutional. The program will focus on how she did it. Philippa’s most recent book is On Account of Sex: Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the Making of Gender Equality Law (Landmark Law Cases and American Society).

Philippa Strum is a Global Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, DC, and professor emerita, City University of New York. Her many books include Louis D. Brandeis: Justice for the People, which was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in biography; Women in the Barracks: The VMI Case and Equal Rights; Mendez v. Westminster: School Desegregation and Mexican-American Rights; Speaking Freely: Whitney v. California and American Speech Law; and When the Nazis Came to Skokie: Freedom for Speech We Hate.