Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 1933 - 2020

By Sally Robertson, History Librarian at Nashville State Community College

This is a guide designed for NSCC students who want to learn more about the impact that Supreme Court Justice, Ruth Bader Ginsburg had on U.S. constitutional law, as well as women's and civil rights, but if you are not a student at this college you could go to your college library website or public library site and checkout what databases are available to you there. All libraries subscribe to some databases. In library databases you will find good reliable information. Library databases search what is known as the "deep web". Information that you cannot get to through Google. If you are a Tennessean the Tennessee Electronic Library contains a lot of great Gale research databases. Free for all Tennesseans.

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E-Books

Historical Encyclopedia of U.S. Independent Counsel Investigations. An e-book from the Gale Virtual Reference Library in the EBSCO e-book Academic Collection. (2000)

Associate Justice, U.S. Supreme Court, 1993–2020. While serving as U.S. Court of Appeals Judge for the D.C. Circuit (1972–1993), Ruth Bader Ginsburg participated in a 1988 decision that temporarily invalidated the ETHICS IN GOVERNMENT ACT (1978) that created the Office of Independent Counsel.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Legacy of Dissent : Feminist Rhetoric and the Law. An EBSCO e-book. by Katie L. Gibson (2018) About her lifelong effort to reshape the language of American law has had profound consequences. ..

The Rhetoric of Supreme Court Women : From Obstacles to Options. An EBSCO e=book. By Nichola D. Gutgold (2012) explores how Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg used effective rhetoric.

Physical Books in the Nashville State Community College Library

Ruth Bader Ginsburg : a life. First edition. (2018) A book fifteen years in work, written with the cooperation of Ruth Bader Ginsburg herself and based on many interviews with the Justice, her husband, her children, her friends, and associates.KF8745 .G56 D44 2018

The legacy of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Dodson, Scott, editor (2015) 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.KF8745 .G56 L44 2015

Justice on the brink: the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the rise of Amy Coney Barrett, and the twelve months that transformed the supreme court. Greenhouse, Linda. (2021) KF8742 .G743 2021

Articles about her legacy

Opening the door: Ruth Bader Ginsburg, law's boundaries, and the gender of opportunities. (Summer 2013) From: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law (Vol. 25, Issue 1) "In other words, when arguing law's obligation to reject such classifications as unconstitutional constraints on equality, Ginsburg's "brief/essay eloquently crossed the boundaries of law.".. In the Gale General Onefile database.

Tribute to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Citation metadata. (Summer 2013) From: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law(Vol. 25. Issue 1) Around the world--men and women alike. The visit of Justice Ginsburg to the Constitutional Court of South Africa in 2006, when she delivered her speech entitled, "The Value of a Comparative Perspective in Constitutional Adjudication," In the Gale General Onefile database

Searching for Equality: The Nineteenth Amendment and Beyond: A conversation between United States Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Judge M. Margaret McKeown. (June 2020) From: Georgetown Law Journal(Vol. 108, Issue SE) In the Gale General Onefile database.

Closing Remarks for Symposium on "Justice Brennan and the Living Constitution" Ruth Bader Ginsburg. In the JSTOR database. From: California Law Review. Vol. 95, No. 6 (Dec., 2007), pp. 2217-2220 (4 pages)

A conversation with Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Citation metadata. (Summer 2013 ) From Columbia Journal of Gender and Law (Vol. 25, Issue 1) In the Gale General Onefile database.

In memory of Shirley Mount Hufstedler by Ruth Baden Ginsburg. (Mar. 2017) From: Stanford Law Review(Vol. 69, Issue 3) In the Gale General Onefile database

The film "On the basis of sex" about her life. Film Review: On the Basis of Sex (April 15, 2019) From: UWIRE Text. Written by Ginsburg's nephew, Daniel Stiepleman, the film is delivered with a remarkable affection and an unparalleled respect,. In the Gale General Onefile database

Constitution Day film screening 'On the Basis of Sex' celebrates gender equality progress. (Sept. 20, 2019) From: UWIRE Text. In the Gale General Onefile database

Newspaper sources NewsBank Special Reports NewsBank is a database that indexes newspaper articles. Each month they have special reports that feature different people and events that are currently happening in the news.

Other Information Sources

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Impact On The U.S. Legal System From: NPR September 18, 2020, 8:32 PM ET A 4-minute listen. NPR's Audie Cornish talks with Jeffrey Rosen, a law professor at George Washington University and the author of book Conversations with RBG, about Justice Ginsburg's impact on the legal system.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg. From: "Ruth Bader Ginsburg." Oyez, www.oyez.org/justices/ruth_bader_ginsburg. Accessed 19 Sep. 2020. (LII Supreme Court Resources)

On the basis of sex (Film) Although it’s been taken off of Netflix, “On the Basis of Sex” is currently available for streaming on the Showtime app with a subscription and on Amazon Prime with a Showtime subscription. Amazon subscribers also have the option to purchase the movie for a one-time fee of $14.99.

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