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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 Ginsburgs career. Together, these perspectives document the impressive -- and continuing -- legacy of one of the most important figures in modern law.,
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Professor Scott Dodson is the James Edgar Hervey Chair in Litigation and Geoffrey C. Hazard Jr. Distinguished Professor of Law at University of California Hastings College of the Law. An expert in civil procedure and federal courts, Professor Dodson has authored more than 100 works, including articles appearing in Stanford Law Review, N.Y.U. Law Review, Michigan Law Review, California Law Review, University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Virginia Law Review, Duke Law Journal, Northwestern University Law Review, and Vanderbilt Law Review. He has published a casebook and a student guide on Civil Procedure, a casebook on Federal Courts, a monograph with Oxford University Press, and an edited volume on Justice Ginsburg with Cambridge University Press. His writings have been cited by hundreds of scholars and more than twenty-five courts. Professor Dodson is a frequent commentator in various news media and has blogged at SCOTUSblog, Civil Procedure & Federal Courts Blog, and PrawfsBlawg. He also has authored or joined numerous amicus briefs before the Supreme Court.Prior to joining UC Hastings, Professor Dodson held a permanent faculty appointment at William & Mary Law School from 2009-2012 and at the University of Arkansas School of Law from 2006-2009. For the 2008 fall semester, Professor Dodson was a Visiting Associate Professor of Law at Duke University School of Law.
