* Life-long friend and client of Justice Ginsburg.
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* Dean Emeritus and Harvey R. Miller Professor of Law and Economics, Columbia Law School. The author clerked for RBG in the October 1994 Term, her second year on the U.S. Supreme Court.
* Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center, and Director, International Women’s Human Rights Clinic.
* Partner, Outten & Golden, LLC. Ms. Peratis succeeded Ruth Bader Ginsburg as Co-Director of the ACLU Women’s Rights Project in 1974.
* J.D. 1969, Harvard Law School. The author co-founded the ACLU Women’s Rights Project with Justice Ginsburg.
* Partner and Co-Head of the Appellate Practice Group, Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP. Mr. Tripp clerked for Justice Ginsburg in October Term 2007.
** Harlan Fiske Stone Professor of Constitutional Law, Columbia Law School. Professor Metzger clerked for Justice Ginsburg in October Term 1997.
* Partner, Susman Godfrey LLP. Clerked for Justice Ginsburg in October Term 2006.
* Chief Justice of the United States.
The COVID-19 crisis has tragically revealed the depth of racial inequities in the United States. This Piece argues that the disproportionate impact of the pandemic on racial minorities is a symptom of a failing approach to public health, one that privileges individual behaviors over the structural conditions that generate vulnerability and inequitable health outcomes. Despite clear racial disparities in illness and deaths, the...
A defendant’s right to confront the witnesses against him is a cornerstone of our adversarial system of criminal justice. Or is it? Under current law, defendants can invoke their confrontation right only by going to trial. But trials account for about five percent of criminal convictions. That means that the overwhelming majority of defendants convicted in the United States never get to exercise their constitutional right to confront the government’s...