Ginzberg, Eli, 161
Gittelsohn, Roland B., 259–60
Goldberg, Arthur, 83–84
Goldstone, Richard, 263
Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., 67, 276, 277, 284–85
“grandmother brief,” 114
Grant, Ulysses S., 66, 79
“graveyard dissents,” 281–82
Great Britain, 71, 79, 80–81, 213–14, 224–25, 231, 248, 250, 256, 262, 263, 280
Greenhouse, Linda, 102, 276
Greenspan, Alan, 57
Griswold, Erwin, 129, 156, 162, 164
Guantanamo Bay, 59, 213, 256
Guinier, Lani, 73
Gunther, Gerald, xv, 137n, 189, 247
habeas corpus, 219, 256–57
Hadassah, 87
Hale, Brenda, 214
Halpern, Harry, 18, 18
Hamilton, Alexander, 184, 195, 228, 229, 231
Hand, Learned, 183–84, 247
Harlan, John Marshall, 97, 101–6, 237, 282, 283
Harlan, Malvina Shanklin, 96, 97, 101–6
Hartnett, Mary, xiii, 27
Harvard Law Review, 137n, 225, 250
Harvard Law School, xx, xvi, xx, 26, 71–74, 81, 92, 123, 251
Harvard University, 32–33, 33, 73–74, 298, 319
Hatch, Orrin, 180, 188, 189
Health, Education, and Welfare Department (HEW), U.S., 115
Health and Human Services Department (HHS), U.S., 309
health insurance, 59, 90–91, 131–38, 159–60, 222–23, 277, 286, 299–312, 326
Hebrew language, 14, 15, 85
Heflin, Howell, 179–80
Heggie, Jake, 34, 35
Henry V (Shakespeare), 5, 93
“Highlights” reports, 317–30
Highway Herald, 9–13
Hiroshima bombing (1945), 7
Hitler, Adolf, 5–6, 7, 196–97, 260
Hodgson, James D., 134
Holloway, William Judson, 128–29
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 82, 176, 186, 234, 239, 286
Holocaust, 5–6, 16, 86–87, 259, 264
Horne, Marilyn, 44
House of Representatives, U.S., 134, 139, 217, 218–19, 220, 285, 294
Judiciary Committee of, 217, 294
housewives, 4, 5, 146
housing allowances, 131–38, 243
“How the Tenth Circuit Got My Wife Her Good Job” (M. Ginsburg), 116–17, 126–30
Hoyt, Gwendolyn, 158–59, 161
Hufstedler, Shirley Mount, 74, 75, 175, 189
Hughes, Charles Evans, 82, 104, 212, 229, 282–83
human rights, 9, 116, 154–55, 196–97, 254, 256–63, 268–75
Idaho, 114, 124, 128, 158–59, 251
Idaho Supreme Court, 124, 128, 158–59
Illinois Supreme Court, 71, 106
Ilomantis ginsburgae, 332
immigration, 59, 86, 168, 206, 324, 325
“impermissible coercion,” 304–6
India, 40, 42, 269
India Supreme Court, 40
individual insurance mandate, 299–303
“In God We Trust” motto, 219
injunctions, 237–38, 317, 325
Institut d’études politiques (Sciences Po), 268–75
intact dilation and evacuation (D&E) procedure, 313–16
Intercollegiate Association of Women Students, 147
“intermediate” standard, 137–38, 150–53, 242
Internal Revenue Code, 114–15, 126–29, 156–157, 286
Internal Revenue Service (IRS), 114–15, 126–29, 156–57, 286, 299
International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination (1965), 263, 269
International Criminal Court (ICC), 76
International Labor Organization (ILO), 142
Iolanthe (Gilbert and Sullivan), 224–25
Iran Threat Reduction and Syria Human Rights Act (2012), 329
Ireland, 237–38
Israel, 15, 70, 83, 125, 257–58, 264
Italy, 210, 250
Iwo Jima, Battle of, 259–60
Jackson, Andrew, 246
Jackson, Robert H., 207, 223, 224
James Madison Lecture on Constitutional Law, 196, 228–47
Japan, 108
Jay, John, 249
Jefferson, Thomas, 140, 183, 231, 232, 248, 281
Jewish Americans, 5–6, 14, 15–18, 78–88, 182
Jim Crow laws, 245–46, 294
Johnson, Lyndon B., 75, 270
Joseph Andrews (Fielding), 255
Judaism, 15–18, 260, 264
judges:
activism of, 217, 219–20, 245
confirmation, 219
election of, 93, 213–14, 220
impeachment of, 218
independence of, 184–85, 194–96, 213–21, 226, 228–29, 247
panels of, 210, 234, 279–80
trial, 134, 144, 157, 158–59, 223, 278, 284, 325
violence against, 217
women as, 74–76, 85, 175
Judges, Book of, 14–15, 70
judicial branch, 215–16
juries, 134, 144, 157, 158–59, 223, 284
jurisdiction, 219, 256
jury duty, 134, 144, 157, 158–59
Justice Department, U.S., 156–57, 161, 204, 218, 292, 318
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Distinguished Lecture on Women and the Law, 94n, 332
Kaddish, 87–88
Kagan, Elena, 73, 74, 77n, 85n, 89n, 91, 187–88, 198, 202, 251–52, 253, 254, 255, 277, 284, 290, 293, 300, 304, 308, 318–19, 321, 322, 332
Kaplan, Benjamin, xv, 250
Kay, Herma Hill, 115, 189
Keller, Scott, 321–22
Kennedy, Anthony, 32, 57, 257, 313, 318, 319, 320, 321, 322, 327–28
Kennedy, John F., 75
Kennedy, Robert F., 266
Kentucky, 76, 102–3, 104, 273
Klain, Ron, xvii, 168
Klarman, Michael, 260–61
Klein, Joel, 167–68, 190
Labor Department, U.S., 123, 270–71
labor market, 134, 204–5
law:
appellate rulings in, 36, 75–76, 84, 156, 202, 207, 208–9, 210, 212, 217–18, 235, 317, 325, 326, 327, 329; see also specific courts
British, 79, 80–81, 248, 250, 256, 280
casebooks for, 71, 115, 116
civil, 223, 232, 249–50, 325
common, 156, 212, 234, 280
constitutional, 127–28, 129, 169, 176, 178, 183–87, 193, 220–21, 228–46, 248–58, 269–70, 292, 299–306; see also Constitution, U.S.
criminal, 23, 35–36, 203–4, 232–33, 255, 257, 317
dependents defined by, 114–15, 126–29, 131–38, 146, 160, 161, 225–26
family, 68, 119–20, 144, 146, 148–49, 225, 243–44
federal, 116, 129, 132, 155–56, 201–2, 204, 209, 235, 277
foreign, 40, 59, 76, 196–97, 210, 218, 220, 231–33, 237–38, 248–58, 269–70
international, 9–13, 80–81, 187
justice and, 20–24, 35, 77, 83–84, 85, 161, 184, 228–46
labor, 58, 90–91, 134, 145
military, 35, 256–57
natural, 254–55
nullification of, 284–85
pathmarker in, 63–109, 237, 245, 299, 319
political influence in, 196, 206–7, 218–19, 230, 239–40
precedent in, 158, 218, 232–33, 235, 236–38, 251–52, 255, 308, 313, 316
property, 71, 84, 100, 114, 158–59, 230, 231, 250
“protective,” 121–22, 134, 136, 143–44, 145, 158–59
rule of, 69–70, 194, 215, 221, 233–34, 247, 316
scrutiny in, 132, 137–38, 150–51, 160–61, 225
“sideglances” for, 119–20, 193–94, 196–97, 237
social change and, 244–47, 274
state, 116, 143–44, 147–48, 155–56, 206, 209, 239–40, 243, 245, 265–67, 274, 292–96, 314–15, 326–27
statutory, 129, 132, 142, 155–56, 158
, 216–17, 235, 239–40, 251, 256, 286, 306, 308, 314–15, 324, 329
tax, 27, 114–15, 120, 125, 126–30, 225–26, 299–300, 311–12
Law Day (1970), 119
Law Lords, 231–32
law schools, 66, 70–72, 109, 113, 122–24, 175, 250, 267, 272–73, 275, 298, 327
lawsuits, 131–38, 147–48, 254, 285, 287–89, 328–29
Lazarus, Emma, 5, 86
“lead workers,” 290–92
least restrictive means test, 310–11
leave, medical, 163–64, 240–42
Ledbetter, Lilly, 67, 276, 277, 284–85, 287–89, 290, 292
Legacy of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, The (Dodson, ed.), 332
legislative branch, 215–19, 220, 226–27, 234, 329
legislative districts, 326–27
Lewis, Anthony, 208–9
Library of Congress, U.S., 57, 97, 212
“life-saving” procedures, 239–40
life sentence without parole, 204, 257
life-support issues, 216–17
Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act (2009), 67, 285, 287
Lithwick, Dahlia, 321
Little Rock desegregation case (1957), 169–70
Llewellyn, Karl, 234
Lockwood, Belva, 58, 65–68, 105
Louisiana, 78–80
Loving, Mildred Jeter, 197, 265–67
Loving, Richard, 265–67
Lurton, Horace Harmon, 102–3
McCarthy, Joseph, xv, 20–24
McLean, John, 101, 283
Macmillan, Harold, 263
McSorley’s Old Ale House, 124
Madison, James, 195, 228–29
Magna Carta, 9, 10
male preference statutes, 114, 158–59
Mansfield, Arabella, 70
manslaughter, 158–59
Marine Corps, U.S., 162–63
marriage, 33–34, 96–109, 131–38, 145, 197, 243–44, 246, 254, 256, 265–67
Marshall, John, 96–99, 229, 232, 249, 253, 278–79
Marshall, Polly, 96, 97, 99
Marshall, Thurgood, 116, 212, 230, 245, 264
Mary Baldwin College, 151–52
Maryland, University of, Law School, 44
Massachusetts, 100
Mather, Cotton, 97
Matthews, Burnita Shelton, 74
Mayflower Hotel, 39–41
measured motions, 239–47
Medicaid, 299, 304–6
Melville, Herman, 35
Memories of a Long Life (Harlan), 101–6
mental retardation, 255
Michigan, University of, Law School, 272–73, 275, 296–97, 327
military commissions, 256–57
Mill, John Stuart, 119
Millicent Tryon (Ginsburg’s secretary), 188
Milne, A. A., xvi, 5, 130
minorities, 214, 220, 294–96, 318–21, 326–27
miscegenation laws, 197, 246, 265–67
money-laundering schemes, 328–29
Morgan, John, 102–3
Moritz, Charles E., 115, 126–29
Morris, Richard, 231
Moseley-Braun, Carol, 183
Moseneke, Dikgang, 57
“mother brief,” 114
Moynihan, Daniel Patrick, xvii, 174, 175, 180, 181
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 47
murder charge, 158–59, 203–4
“must decide” cases, 206
“My Day” (E. Roosevelt), 9
My Dearest Polly (Marshall), 97
Myrdal, Gunnar, 259
Nabokov, Véra, 20
Nabokov, Vladimir, xiv–xv, 20
Nagasaki bombing (1945), 7
Napoleon I, Emperor of France, 232
Natalie Cornell Rehnquist Dining Room, 109
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), 264
National Association of Women Judges, 75
National Basketball Association (NBA), 170–71
National Council of Jewish Women, 86–88
National Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C.), 57, 224, 333
National Press Club, 140
national security, 20–24, 219
National University Law School, 66
National Woman’s Party, 141, 143, 145–46
Native Americans, 67, 68, 195, 231, 265, 308
Nazism, 5–6, 16, 196–97, 259
Nebraska, 36, 148
Nellie Taft: The Unconventional First Lady of the Ragtime Era (Anthony), 98
Neuborne, Burt, 176, 221
“New Colossus, The” (Lazarus), 86
New Jersey, 148, 206
Newman Report (1971), 143
New York, N.Y., 3, 6–7, 27, 32, 127, 176–77, 182, 250, 331–32
New York City Bar Association, 73, 94n, 148–49, 332
New York City Center, 32
New York State, 148, 206
New York Times, 74, 102, 108, 179, 218, 265, 276
New York University Law School, 122–23, 228n
New Zealand, 76, 263
Nineteenth Amendment, 139, 141, 144, 155
Nixon, Richard M., 75, 197, 270–71
Norton, Eleanor Holmes, 182
Notorious RBG, The, 331–32
nurses, 163–64, 240–42, 243
Nussbaum, Bernard, 168–69, 170
Obama, Barack, 85n, 277, 285, 325
O’Connor, Sandra Day, xix, 57, 58, 76–77, 89–95, 93, 96, 109, 150, 175, 176, 190, 222, 225, 242, 243, 253, 256–57, 267, 275, 279, 313, 329, 332–33
Ohio, 74–75, 144, 148
Olson, Ted, 218
Olympic Women’s Basketball Team, 92
opera, 26, 32–55, 42, 195, 225, 331
Opera Ball, 41, 44–45
“opinions seriatim,” 231–32
Oregon, 58, 76, 135
original jurisdiction cases, 206
pacta sunt servanda principle, 34
Paris, 248n, 268
parliamentary system, 252
parole, 204, 257
Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act (2003), 313–16
patriarchy, 121, 157, 158–59
Pearl Harbor attack (1941), 6
Pennsylvania, University of, Law School, 70, 73
percentage admissions plans, 274, 296–98, 321, 327–28
per curiam opinions, 223, 232, 234–35
Peretz, Haym, 87–88
Perlman, Philip, 84
Philadelphia Plan (1969), 270–71
Philippines, 108
Phillips Collection, 57
Phoenix Suns, 170–71
Pirates of Penzance (Gilbert and Sullivan), 36–37
Planned Parenthood, 240, 246–47, 313–16
plea bargaining, 254
Pledge of Allegiance, 219
political crimes, 20–24
Portman, Natalie, 332, 334
Posner, Eric A., 256–57
Posner, Richard, 254–55
Pound, Roscoe, 236
poverty, xviii, 29, 303–4
Powell, Thomas Reed, 139, 298, 319
“preclearance,” 292–96
pregnancies, 163–64, 204–5, 237–42, 313–16; see also abortion
President’s Commission on the Status of Women, 133
“primus among the pares” principle, 194–95
privacy rights, 82, 147–48, 219, 239–40, 314
probate courts, 114, 158–59
“pro bono” cases, 81, 128
Project on International Procedure, xxi, 249–50
Przybyszewski, Linda, 101
public education, 121, 142–43, 169–70, 197, 219, 272–73, 280, 296–98, 321, 327–28; see also school desegregation
Public Elementary School No. 238, xx, 3–4, 9–13
Pushkin, Alexander, 224
quotas, racial, 272
racial discrimination, 59, 105–6, 123, 125, 144, 161, 169–70, 196–97, 206, 219, 230, 245–46, 259–75, 280, 292–98, 321, 327–28
Racial Integrity Act (Virginia), 266
Racketeer Influ
enced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) (1970), 328–29
Ray, Brian, 263
Reagan, Ronald, 76, 96, 223, 234
Recollections of Full Years (Taft), 97–98
Red Scare, xv, 20–24
Reed, Cecil, 158–59
Reed, Richard Lynn, 158–59
Reed, Sally, 114, 128, 158–59, 161
Rehnquist, Jim, 224
Rehnquist, Natalie Cornell, 109
Rehnquist, William H., 60, 113, 150, 175–76, 190, 194–95, 211, 220, 222–27, 252–53
Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) (1993), 307–12
remands, 203–4, 327
reply briefs, 131–38
Republic According to John Marshall Harlan, The (Przybyszewski), 101
Republican Party, 188
restrooms, 72, 75, 147
Rhode, Deborah, 72
Rice, Condoleezza, 57
Richmond, Va., 99, 223
“right-to-life” movement, 244, 315
Roberts, John, 57, 198, 276, 278, 279, 280, 292, 294, 300, 304–6, 313, 321, 324, 329
Rome Treaty (1957), 142, 269
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 9
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 6, 7, 9, 82, 214
Roosevelt, Theodore, 108
Rutgers School of Law, xxi, 72, 113, 115, 119, 127, 155, 176, 182
Ruth Bader Ginsburg Lifetime Achievement Award, 332
St. Louis Law School, 70
Santayana, George, 224
Scalia, Antonin, 32–55, 42, 57, 58, 150, 151, 195, 254, 255, 281, 282, 283–84, 313, 318–19, 321, 323–24
Scalia, Maureen, 41
Scalia/Ginsburg opera (Wang), 37, 41, 43–55, 195, 331
Schiavo, Terri, 216–17
Schlafly, Phyllis, 140
school desegregation, 169–70, 197, 219, 272–73, 280, 296–98, 321, 327–28
school prayer, 220
search warrants, 21
Seattle, Wash., 197, 273
Second Amendment, 59, 213
Second Circuit Judicial Conference, 39, 95, 199, 317, 323n
second-degree murder, 158–59
Second Sex, The (Beauvoir), 161, 243
segregation, 59, 84, 123, 169–70, 219, 245–46, 259–75, 280, 321, 327–28
Seitz, Collins J., 237
Senate, U.S., 78–79, 85n, 134, 139, 163–90, 216, 217, 218–19, 220, 251–55, 285, 294
Judiciary Committee of, 163–90, 251–55, 294
Seneca Women Global Leadership Forum, 89n
Sensenbrenner, James, 294
“separate but equal” doctrine, 105, 135, 245–46, 260–65
September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, 257–58
Seventeenth Amendment, 80
Sex-Based Discrimination: Text, Cases and Materials (Kay and Davidson, eds.), 115
Shakespeare, William, 5, 57, 66, 93
Shakespeare Theatre, 57, 93
Shaw, Lemuel, 35
Shaw, Robert, 224
Shoretz, Rochelle L., 96n
Shulamith School for Girls, 85
“Significance of Contract, as Played Out in Wagner’s Ring Cycle, The,” 34
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