Before being named a federal judge in 1980 and then a U.S. Supreme Court justice in 1993, Ruth Bader Ginsburg was a lawyer for the American Civil Liberties Union. She spoke about her career as a lawyer and a judge at Yale University on Oct. 19 as part of the university’s Gruber Program for Global Justice and Women’s Rights.
During the event at the Battell Chapel, which was streamed live on the Yale web site, Ginsburg was interviewed by former New York Times Supreme Court reporter Linda Greenhouse, who now lectures at Yale Law School. The 79-year-old Ginsburg, who was instrumental in launching the Women’s Rights Project of the ACLU, described several of the gender discrimination cases that shaped her early career in the 1970s.
