Ruth Bader Ginsburg's final book offers an intimate look at her
extraordinary life and details her lifelong pursuit for gender equality
and a "more perfect Union."
In the fall of 2019, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg visited the University
of California, Berkeley School of Law to honor her friend, the late
Herma Hill Kay, with whom Ginsburg had coauthored the very first
casebook on sex-based discrimination in 1974. During Justice Ginsburg's
visit, she shared her life story with Amanda L. Tyler, a Berkeley Law
professor and former Ginsburg law clerk.
Their intimate conversation is recorded here in Justice, Justice Thou
Shalt Pursue, along with previously unpublished materials that detail
Ginsburg's long career. These include notable briefs and oral arguments,
Ginsburg's last speeches, and her favorite opinions that she wrote as a
Supreme Court Justice (many in dissent), along with the statements that
she read from the bench in those important cases. Each document was
carefully chosen by Ginsburg and Tyler to tell the litigation strategy
at the heart of Ginsburg's unwavering commitment to achieve "a more
perfect Union."
Ruth Bader Ginsburg was an advocate and jurist for gender equality,
ensuring that the United States Constitution leaves no person behind and
allows every individual to achieve their full human potential. Her work
transformed not just the American legal landscape, but American society.
As revealed in these pages, Ginsburg dismantled long-entrenched systems
of discrimination based on outdated stereotypes by showing how such laws
hold back both genders. With her death, the country lost a hero whose
incredible life and legacy made the United States a society in which "We
the People," for whom the Constitution is written, includes everyone.
