Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2022
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
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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).