The Legacy of Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Ruth Bader Ginsburg is a legal icon. In more than fifty years as a lawyer, professor, appellate judge, and associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, Ginsburg has influenced the law and society in real and permanent ways. This book chronicles and evaluates the remarkable achievements Ruth Bader Ginsburg has made over the past half century. Including chapters written by prominent court watchers and leading scholars from law, political science, and history, it offers diverse perspectives on an array of doctrinal areas and on different time periods in Ginsburg's career. Together, these perspectives document the impressive -- and continuing -- legacy of one of the most important figures in modern law.

Scott Dodson is the Geoffrey C. Hazard Jr. Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of California Hastings College of the Law. An expert in civil procedure and federal courts, Dodson has authored more than sixty articles appearing in the Stanford, Michigan, California, University of Pennsylvania, and Virginia law reviews, among others. He is the author or editor of four books: The Black Book of Federal Courts (2018), The Legacy of Ruth Bader Ginsburg (Cambridge 2015), New Pleading in the Twenty-First Century (Oxford 2013), and Civil Procedure: Model Problems and Outstanding Answers (Oxford 2011, 2d ed. 2012). His writings have been cited by the Fourth, Fifth, Seventh, Ninth, Tenth, and Eleventh circuits and two state supreme courts. Dodson is a frequent commentator in various news media and has blogged at SCOTUSblog, Civil Procedure and Federal Courts Blog, and PrawfsBlawg.