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Fielding questions from Harvard Law School Dean Elena Kagan and an audience made up mostly of Law School alumnae, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg spoke Saturday about women in law and gave insight into her experiences on the nation’s highest court...
...Ginsburg came to the Law School as a part of Celebration Fifty-Five, a four-day leadership summit held in honor of the 55th anniversary of female enrollment at the Law School. Ginsburg attended the Law School from 1954 to 1956, then transferred to Columbia Law School for her final year...
...Ginsburg began her talk by recounting the struggles of Belva Lockwood, the first woman to argue a case before the Supreme Court and a role model for female attorneys and judges...
...should appreciate the women on the shoulders of whom we stand—women who said the same thing that we said many years later,” Ginsburg said. “But we said it at a time when society was willing to listen...
Individual sellers that use eBay or AbeBooks are breaking the law, says Ginsburg, but whether the sites are also liable for the auctions is unclear. Ebay recently won a court case absolving it of responsibility for policing its auctions for counterfeit items - although it will remove an auction if contacted by the company that owns the rights to an item - but international textbooks are not technically counterfeit. Like eBay, AbeBooks acts as a third party for sellers - generally stores in foreign countries. One copy of Organic Chemistry found on its site was being sold by the William Bookstore...