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* Former U.S. Senator from New York, U.S. Secretary of State, and Democratic nominee for President in 2016.

MY JOURNEY WITH RBG

Stephen Wiesenfeld*

* Life-long friend and client of Justice Ginsburg.

* 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 Womenโ€™s Human Rights Clinic.

MEMORIES OF RBG

Kathleen Peratis*

* Partner, Outten & Golden, LLC. Ms. Peratis succeeded Ruth Bader Ginsburg as Co-Director of the ACLU Womenโ€™s Rights Project in 1974.

* J.D. 1969, Harvard Law School. The author co-founded the ACLU Womenโ€™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.

REMEMBERING RUTH

John G. Roberts, Jr.*

* 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 disproportionยญate 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...