Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2022
DOI
https://doi.org/10.52214/cjgl.vi.9790
Abstract
In so many respects, the culmination of Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s career took place in 1996, three years after she joined the Supreme Court and twenty-four years before her death. In U.S. v. Virginia, Justice Ginsburg convinced a majority of the Supreme Court to embrace the strongest formulation of a constitutional norm condemning sex inequality in the Court’s history. The new rule articulated in the U.S. v. Virginia case declared that “[s]ex classifications ... may not be used, as they once were, ... to create or perpetuate the legal, social, and economic inferiority of women.”
Disciplines
Civil Rights and Discrimination | Law | Law and Gender
Creative Commons License
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Recommended Citation
Katherine M. Franke,
Remarks from the 2022 Symposium: The Equal Rights Amendment: A New Guarantee of Sex Equality in the U.S. Constitution,
Colum. J. Gender & L.
18
(2022).
Available at:
https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/faculty_scholarship/4462
Comments
Equal Rights Amendment Symposium Special Issue (Online Only).