The Robert L. Levine Distinguished Lecture: A Conversation with Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Professor Aaron Saiger

PROFESSOR AARON SAIGER: It’s a signal honor for Fordham Law School and a personal honor for me and a pleasure to have Justice Ginsburg here tonight. We want to thank you for coming. I think I will not reiterate all of the thanks Dean Diller has offered, except to say that we are very grateful to the Levine family and deeply indebted to the students of the Law Review who have made tonight happen. The format of the evening is as follows: I will ask questions and the Justice will answer them

Remarks on Writing Separately

Judge Ginsburg compares the styles of appellate opinion writing in United States courts and in those of Great Britain and the civil law countries. She describes as a middle way the United States practice of opinions for the court, sometimes accompanied by separate concurrences and dissents. This practice, she observes, contrasts with the British tradition of seriatim opinions by each member of the bench, and with the single, anonymous judgment characteristic of civil law systems. While noting that the Anglo-United States practice of writing separately has gained adherents in the civil law world, she concludes that judges in the United States might profitably consider the styles of jurists abroad and exercise greater restraint before writing separately

Women at the Bar—A Generation of Change

This lecture, delivered at the University of Puget Sound School of Law, addresses the evolving role of women in the legal profession