She masterminded a step-by-step approach to constructing a groundbreaking body of gender-equality jurisprudence, which earned her the reputation as the legal architect of the women’s movement. When she joined the Columbia Law School faculty, in 1972, Ginsburg co-founded the American Civil Liberties Union’s (ACLU) Women’s Rights Project in order to challenge laws that treated the sexes differently. In Columbia Law School’s long and venerable history, I am hard pressed to think of an individual who more singularly elevated our collective aspirations.” “Since 1958, when she arrived at Columbia Law School for her 3L year, Justice Ginsburg made an indelible impact at every turn-first as a star student, then as a trailblazing and dauntless professor and advocate, and finally as a devoted alumna. “We are heartbroken by the news that Justice Ginsburg has died,” said Gillian Lester, Dean and the Lucy G. Over the course of her career, the soft-spoken, Brooklyn-born lawyer developed a powerful voice as a strategic litigator, teacher, feminist, scholar, judge, and advocate for gender equality in the courtroom and beyond. Supreme Court, died at her home in Washington, D.C., on September 18, 2020, at the age of 87. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg ’59, the legendary legal visionary with steely resolve and searing intelligence, who was the first female tenured professor at Columbia Law School and the second woman to serve as a justice on the U.S.

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