Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome provost strom. [applause] good evening. It is my very great pleasure to welcome you to Memorial Church for this years lecture on a Meaningful Life. Honored we are deeply to have as our speaker associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States Ruth Bader Ginsburg. [cheers and applause] this event, as you may know, has a rich history at stanford. Lecture that in a inry rathbun, a professor the 1930s through the 1950s, decided to give on the last day of his class one spring. The lecture was such a success that it turned into an annual tradition at stanford for many years until professor rathbun retired. It was revised in 2008, supported by a generous gift to the office of religious life by the foundation for Global Community which established the henry and Amelia Rathbun fund for exploring what leads to a Meaningful Life. Each year, a rathbun visiting fellow selected to come to stanford to deliver the lecture and spend time with our faculty,
Started. Welcome to politics and pros. I am justin, the programs manager at the store, i receive classrooms, books, and clients and i can try to speak closer. So thank you all for coming out tonight. Were honored to have Linda Hirshman speaking about sisterinlaws. Now would be the time to turn off any Electronic Devices that may be tempted to beep or buzz throughout the proceedings. Next, linda will be taking questions during the second half of the event. For that we ask that you use one of two microphones. Looks like theres just one tonight on my left. That way everyone here can hear it and it will be on recordings. At the end if you could help us out by folding up your chairs, that will help the cleanup process greatly. Linda hirshman, former professor and law degree from the university of degree and ph. D. In philosophy and practiced law for 15 years, during which she appeared before the u. S. Supreme court for three different cases. Since she has published several nonfiction works,
Announcer President Trump is in fayetteville, North Carolina holding a rally that Campaign Officials are calling a Great American comeback event because he carried the state in 2016. It should be noted that mailin balloting has begun in North Carolina. The president is making his fourth trip to the tar heel state in as many weeks. Vice President Joe Biden has released campaign ads directed at military service members. Washington journal viewers this morning reacted to the death of Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg. We will show you some of that programming until the rally begins. We are doing the show today on the life and legacy of Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg who died friday at the age of 87 at her home in washington, d. C. We want to know what you think about Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg and her life and legacy. We are opening regional lines, which means if youre the in the eastern or regional time zone, once again, we are dedicating the show to what you think about the life and legacy of R
Judicial nominations tan politics of americas highest court comes out tuesday. Ilia, welcome, good to see you again. Good to be on. Paul what is in your view Justice Ginsburgs main legacy . Well, hes a legal giant as Justice Scalia put it in writing about her times magazine as most influential people years ago. Her pioneering legacy litigation strategy, achieving so much to turn back sex discrimination, patience, professionalism, her niceness, universally liked and famously the wonderful relationship with Justice Scalia. The last 10, 15 years shes mostly been known for her descents, famous majority opinions probably the one requiring the Virginia Military institute to allow women coo cadets. You know she wears a particular one that she will be passionate about the majority. Paul one of the things i mentioned even in the last 10, 15 years she was in the majority. He wrote the opinion in scaling the u. S. And she was with the majority in the mcdonald case where they overturned what were
Next, former law clerks of late Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg joined biographers and federal judges in remembering her life and career. This discussion comes from Georgetown University law center. It run for an hour and a half. Good evening. I am bill trainer, dean of georgetown law. I would like to thank you all for joining us for tonights tribute to Justice Ginsburg. These past few days have been painful and hard, and i, like you, have been heartbroken. Justice ginsburg was a giant in the law, a champion of justice ad equality, and she was also treasured member of the Georgetown Law Community for many years, beginning with her husband martys joining the faculty. She was remarkably generous with her time. I will never forget walking into on so many occasions. Every year she spoke to our first year class. Walking with her out onto the stage, looking out at hundreds of students, many of them wearing notorious rbg tshirts and seeing their faces light up and uploading ecstatically as , even