Rescheduled: Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who earlier this fall had to postpone the University of Maine School of Law's Coffin Lecture due to surgery, has rescheduled the lecture for 7 p.m., Monday, November 22, at the State Street Church, 159 State St., Portland.

The lecture, "In Pursuit of the Public Good: Lawyers Who Care," is free and open to the public. For more information, call the School of Law at USM,
780-4344.

The annual Coffin Lecture honors Judge Frank M. Coffin, senior judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, and a longtime supporter of the School of Law. The lecture series, now in its eighth year, has featured such speakers as U.S. Supreme Court Justice William Brennan, former Labor Secretary Robert Reich, and historian and author Arthur Schlesinger Jr.

Only the second woman to serve as a Supreme Court justice, Ginsburg was nominated to the court by President Bill Clinton in June, 1993, and took office later that year. She served on the bench of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia and was a professor at Columbia University School of Law and at Rutgers University.

Ginsburg was admitted to the New York Bar in 1959 after obtaining her J.D. from Columbia Law School. For the next two years, she served as a clerk to the Honorable Edmund L. Palmieri, United States District Court, Southern District of New York.

In 1971, Ginsburg was instrumental in launching the Women's Rights Project of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). She also served as the ACLU's general counsel, and litigated a series of cases against gender-based discrimination. Ginsburg has written extensively in the areas of civil procedure, constitutional law, and comparative law.

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