supreme court

A coming-of-age profile of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg who became the second woman to serve on the United States Supreme Court and overcame gender discriminaton and anti-semitism in order to achieve her appointment.

Profiles famed civil rights lawyer Thurgood Marshall, whose successful arguing of the Brown v. Board of Education case before the U.S. Supreme Court led to a landmark ruling overturning school segregation, and later became the nation's first black Supreme Court justice.

"[A] selection of writings and speeches by Justice Ginsburg on wide-ranging topics, including gender equality, the work ways of the Supreme Court, on being Jewish, on law and lawyers in opera, and on the value of looking beyond US shores when interpreting the US Constitution"--Provided by publisher.